FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/1/05
CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, 202/939-2372, jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org
 
The nonproliferation community’s largest and most authoritative nongovernmental conference will take place this year on November 7-8 at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, in Washington, DC.  Over seventy speakers from among the world’s top experts, policy makers, and journalists will lead discussions marking the anniversary of the first official nonproliferation proposal 60 years ago this November. 
 
Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the IAEA and winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, will give a keynote address Monday at 9 AM.  Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman will deliver a major nonproliferation address at 10:50 AM Monday.
 
Other Notable Keynotes and Plenary Panelists include:
• Under Secretary Robert Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
• Secretary William Perry, Former Secretary of Defense, currently at Stanford University     
• Alexander Rumyantsev, Director of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency
• Ambassador Nabil Fahmy, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States
• Jessica T. Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Annalisa Giannella, EU Personal Representative on WMD
• Joseph Cirincione, Director for Non-Proliferation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Carla Anne Robbins, The Wall Street Journal
• Jonathan Schell, Yale University
 
                          FREE PLENARY SESSION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
                           SPECIAL NPR LIVE CONFERENCE BROADCAST:
 
“Talk of the Nation,” Tuesday, November 8, 2:00-4:00 pm.  Hosted by NPR’s Neal Conan and featuring:
• Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Senator Sam Nunn, Former Senator and currently Co-Chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative
• Ambassador Linton Brooks, NNSA Administrator
• General Eugene Habiger, Former Commander of US Strategic Command
• Siegfried Hecker, Former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• Secretary Robert McNamara, Former Secretary of Defense
 
Twelve break-out panels will cover today’s most urgent proliferation challenges and debates, including:  Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Deal with India, Terrorism, Outer Space Security, US Nonproliferation Policy, Reforming the Nuclear Fuel Supply, and much more. 

The complete Conference Agenda is available at:  www.ProliferationNews.org  
 
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