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2009 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference

Mon. April 6th, 2009
Washington, D.C.

2009 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference

Agenda

Monday, April 6, 2009
8:00 am
Amphitheater Foyer
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am-9:10 am
Amphitheater
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jessica T. Mathews, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
9:10 am-10:20 am
Amphitheater
Nuclear Order—Build or Break
Chair: George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ambassador Linton Brooks
Morton Halperin, Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
Brad Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses
Achilles Zaluar, Embassy of Brazil
10:20 am-10:50 am Break
10:50 am-12:20 pm
Amphitheater

International Expectations of the Obama Administration
Chair: Naila Bolus, Ploughshares Fund
Ambassador Peter Gottwald, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
Rebecca Johnson, The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
Vladimir Orlov, Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR)
Dingli Shen, Fudan University

12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Atrium Ballroom
Luncheon Keynote:
Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg, U.S. Department of State
 
Monday Afternoon Concurrent Panels
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Amphitheater
Nuclear Crisis Points: Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Pakistan
Chair: Carla Robbins, The New York Times
Ariel Levite, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Shuja Nawaz, The Atlantic Council of the United States
Leonard Spector, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Polaris
U.S.-China Strategic Stability
Chair: Brad Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses
Shulong Chu, Tsinghua University
Admiral Richard Mies
Robert Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Horizon
Innovating the Regime
Chair: Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute
Pierre Goldschmidt, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Monika Heupel, Freie Universität Berlin
Ramesh Thakur, Balsillie School of International Affairs
3:30 pm-4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm-5:20 pm
Amphitheater
PART 1: Toward a Nuclear Power Renaissance? Fact or Fiction
Chair: Tom Isaacs, Stanford University / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Robert Rosner, Argonne National Laboratory
John Rowe, Exelon Corporation
Sharon Squassoni, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
4:00 pm-5:20 pm
Polaris
Are the Requirements for Extended Deterrence Changing?
Chair: Scott Sagan, Stanford University
Lukasz Kulesa, Polish Institute of International Affairs
George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ambassador Yukio Satoh, Japan Institute of International Affairs
4:00 pm-5:20 pm
Horizon
Verification: Common Ground and Emerging Controversies
Chair: Patricia Lewis, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
James Acton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ambassador Linton Brooks
James Doyle, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Commentator: Angela Woodward, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre
5:30 pm-6:15 pm
Amphitheater
Keynote: Nuclear Industry's Role in Nonproliferation
Anne Lauvergeon, CEO, AREVA
6:30 pm-8:00 pm Welcome Reception
 
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
7:30 am
Amphitheater Foyer
Registration and Continental Breakfast
 
Tuesday Morning Concurrent Breakfast Briefings
7:30 am-8:45 am
Polaris
It is 5 Minutes to Midnight
Sponsored by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Chair: Kennette Benedict, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress
Allison Macfarlane, George Mason University
Richard Garwin, Thomas J. Watson Research Center
7:30 am-8:45 am
Horizon
Enhancing Global Security Through International Collaboration
Sponsored by The National Academies
Chair: David Franz, Midwest Research Institute
Anne Harrington, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Ron Lehman II, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 
Tuesday Morning Concurrent Panels
9:00 am-10:30 am
Amphitheater
PART 2: Challenges to Global Nuclear Power: Technological, Political, and Economic
Chair: Ariel Levite, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jacques Bouchard, Commissariat à l`Énergie Atomique
Charles McCombie, Arius Association
Ernest Moniz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:00 am-10:30 am
Polaris
The Future of the CTBT
Chair: Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association
Sidney Drell, Stanford University
Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution
Ambassador Tibor Tóth, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission
9:00 am-10:30 am
Horizon
After the Khan Network: What Works, What Doesn't and Where Do We Go?
Chair: Joby Warrick, The Washington Post
David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Harvard University
Ralf Wirtz, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
10:30 am-11:00 am Break
11:00 am-12:20 pm
Amphitheater
Enforcing a World Without Nuclear Weapons
Chair: Steven Miller, Harvard University
Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow Center
Martin Briens, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Ambassador Richard Butler AC, New York University / Penn State University
11:00 am-12:20 pm
Polaris
Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones: Past Lessons and Future Prospects
Chair: William Potter, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Jean du Preez, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Sonia Fernández-Moreno, Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear, Argentina
Ambassador Sameh Shoukry, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Commentator: Ariel Levite, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
11:00 am-12:20 pm
Horizon
The Space-Nuclear Nexus
Chair: Michael Krepon, The Henry L. Stimson Center
Philip Coyle, World Security Institute
Pavel Podvig, Stanford University
Dingli Shen, Fudan University
12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Atrium Ballroom
Luncheon: Whither U.S.-Russia Relations?
Chair: Peter Baker, The New York Times
Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, Embassy of the Russian Federation
Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Department of State
2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Amphitheater
Beyond 2010
Chair: H.E. Jonas Gahr Støre, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Sameh Aboul-Enein, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Kingdom
Robert Einhorn
H.E. Gareth Evans, International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament
Ambassador Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia
3:30 pm-3:35 pm
Amphitheater
Closing Remarks
Deepti Choubey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
3:35 pm-5:00 pm
Polaris
Closing Reception