The Road to a Nuclear Weapons Free World:
Treaties, Materials, and Verification Issues
IEER/INESAP/WSLF Symposium
New York City, UN Headquaters, April 11, 1997, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Introduction - Jackie Cabasso
9:15 - 9:30 Making existing and proposed treaties work for nuclear
disarmament - Arjun Makhijani
9:30 - 9:45 Discussion
Role of existing and new treaties in nuclear disarmament
9:45 - 10:45 Panel: Discussion of existing and proposed treaties
- CTBT - Suren Gadekar
- NPT - Zia Mian
- START (all three) and ABM treaties -
Alla Yaroshinskaya (asked)
- Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty - Nigel Chamberlain
10:45 - 11:15 Discussion
11:15 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 12:10 Keynote address: India's potential role in achieving
total nuclear disarmament - Bhabani Sen Gupta (asked)
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch session (on invitation by IEER):
Natalia Mironova: The need for international and national
NGOs to coordinate their work with grassroots groups,
followed by informal discussion
Afternoon Session
Role of nuclear material control and disposition in disarmament
2:30 - 3:00 Panel on military nuclear-weapon-usable materials
- Disposition of Russian plutonium excess and US-Russia
collaboration on nuclear weapons-usable materials production
and stockpiles - Anatoli Diakov
- Interrelations of tritium production and nuclear disarmament -
Martin Kalinowski
3:00 - 3:30 Discussion
3:30 - 4:00 Panel civilian/military connections
- The relation of further spread of civilian nuclear power and
proliferation risks from an Asian perspective - Yu-Mi Mun
- Disposition options for military origin fissile materials -
Ed Lyman
4:00-4:30 Discussion
4:30 - 5:00 Break
New venue: Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium
Steps towards a NWFW and their verification
5:00 - 5:45 Panel on nuclear materials
- Changing requirements for safeguards in shifting from a non-
proliferation to a NWFW regime - Martin Kalinowski
- Verifying warhead dismantlement and released materials -
Ted Taylor
- Safeguards on geologic repositories - Johan Swahn
5:45 - 6:00 Discussion
6:00 - 6:30 Panel on nuclear weapons development
- Policies regarding no new weapons development as well as
existing weapons designs and knowledge - Greg Mello
- Prohibitions on laboratory testing - Andrew Lichterman and
Jackie Cabasso
6:30 - 7:00 Discussion
7:00 Adjourn
This Symposium is jointly organized by
The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
Arjun Makhijani and Anita Seth
6935 Laurel Ave.
Takoma Park, MD 20912, USA
fon: +1 (301) 270-5500, fax: +1 (301) 270-3029
ieer@igc.apc.org
International Network of Scientists and Engineers Against
Proliferation (INESAP)
Martin Kalinowski
IANUS
Schlossgartenstr. 9
64289 Darmstadt
Germany
fon: +49-6151-163016, fax: -49-6151-166039
kalinowski@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de
Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF)
Jacqueline Cabasso and John Burroughs
1440 Broadway, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612, USA
fon: +1 (510) 8395877, fax: +1 (510) 8395397
wslf@igc.apc.org
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The Road to a Nuclear Weapons Free World:
Treaties, Materials, and Verification Issues
List of speakers of the IEER/INESAP/WSLF Symposium
Jacqueline Cabasso
is the Executive Director of the Western States Legal
Foundation.
Nigel Chamberlain
is a campaigner with the Cumbria and Northern Region chapter
of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Prof. Anatoli Diakov
is director of the Center for Arms Control and Environmental
Studies in Moscow. Currently he is visiting research fellow at
the Princeton Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. He
is member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP.
Dr. Suren Gadekar
edits "Anumukti: A Journal Devoted to Non-Nuclear India," and
works at the Institute for Total Revolution, a Gandhian institute
located in the tribal village of Vedchhi, Gujarat.
Dr. Martin Kalinowski
is a nuclear physicist working as research fellow with IANUS at
the Technical University Darmstadt. He is member of the
Coordinating Committee of INESAP.
Prof. Andrew Lichterman
is assistant professor of law at the John F. Kennedy University
Law School in California and a pro bono attorney for Western
States Legal Foundation.
Dr. Ed Lyman
is scientific director of the Nuclear Control Institute in
Washington, DC.
Dr. Arjun Makhijani
is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental
Research in Takoma Park, Maryland. He authored and co-
authored numerous studies and books on nuclear-weapons-
related issues.
Greg Mello
is director of the Los Alamos Study Group. He is a
hydrogeologist and engineer.
Dr. Zia Mian
is a research fellow with the Union of Concerned Scientists in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. For several years he has been
working with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute,
Islamabad. He is member of the Coordinating Committee of
INESAP.
Natalia Mironova
is the chairman of the Movement for Nuclear Safety in
Chelyabinsk, Russia
Yu-Mi Mun
is a campaigner working with the Korean Federation of
Environmental Movement, currently she is studying energy
policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (EEP)
at the University of Delaware.
Bhabani Sen Gupta
is advisor to the Indian Minister for External Affairs on
disarmament issues. He is currently founding an Indian NGO
Coalition for disarmament.
Dr. Johan Swahn
is currently visiting research fellow at the Center for Energy and
Environment Studies, Princeton University; he has a position as
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physical Resource Theory,
Chalmers University of Technology in Goeteborg, Sweden. He is
member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP.
Dr. Ted Taylor
is a former Los Alamos nuclear weapons designer and currently
a visiting research fellow at the Princeton Center for Energy and
Environmental Studies.
Alla A. Yaroshinskaya
won the Right Livelihood Award in 1992 for her work on
Chernobyl. She is advisor to the President of the Russian
Federation and Secretary of the Journalist Union of the Russian
Federation and President of the Charitable Fund.
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