2009 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference

The 2009 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference, "The Nuclear Order—Build or Break," attracted over 840 government officials, policy and technical experts, academics, and journalists from 46 countries.

Highlights included keynote speakers Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg, Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of AREVA, and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, as well as a panel discussion with Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance Rose Gottemoeller and Russian Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim regrets that he was unable to participate, but has provided his prepared remarks on the subject of nuclear weapons, nuclear disarmament and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Session materials are available below.

• Monday, April 6, 2009

  • Welcome and Opening Remarks

    Speaker

    Jessica T. Mathews, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Nuclear Order—Build or Break

    Chair

    George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    Panel

    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

  • International Expectations of the Obama Administration

    Chair

    Naila Bolus, Ploughshares Fund

    Panel

    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

  • Luncheon Keynote

    Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg, U.S. Department of State
    • See also: Presidential Statement from Barack Obama to the 2009 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference

  • Nuclear Crisis Points: Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Pakistan

    Chair

    Carla Robbins, The New York Times

    Panel

    Ariel Levite, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Shuja Nawaz, The Atlantic Council of the United States Leonard Spector, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

  • U.S.-China Strategic Stability

    Chair

    Brad Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses

    Panel

    Shulong Chu, Tsinghua University Admiral Richard Mies Robert Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

  • Innovating the Regime

    Chair

    Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute

    Panel

    Pierre Goldschmidt, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Monika Heupel, Freie Universität Berlin Ramesh Thakur, Balsillie School of International Affairs

  • PART 1: Toward a Nuclear Power Renaissance? Fact or Fiction

    Chair

    Tom Isaacs, Stanford University / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Panel

    Robert Rosner, Argonne National Laboratory John Rowe, Exelon Corporation Sharon Squassoni, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • Are the Requirements for Extended Deterrence Changing?

    Chair

    Scott Sagan, Stanford University

    Panel

    Lukasz Kulesa, Polish Institute of International Affairs George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ambassador Yukio Satoh, Japan Institute of International Affairs

  • Verification: Common Ground and Emerging Controversies

    Chair

    Patricia Lewis, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

    Panel

    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

  • Keynote: Nuclear Industry's Role in Nonproliferation

    Anne Lauvergeon, CEO, AREVA

• Tuesday, April 7, 2009

  • PART 2: Challenges to Global Nuclear Power: Technological, Political, and Economic

    Chair

    Ariel Levite, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    Panel

    Jacques Bouchard, Commissariat à l`Énergie Atomique Charles McCombie, Arius Association Ernest Moniz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • The Future of the CTBT

    Chair

    Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association

    Panel

    Sidney Drell, Stanford University Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution Ambassador Tibor Tóth, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission

  • After the Khan Network: What Works, What Doesn't and Where Do We Go?

    Chair

    Joby Warrick, The Washington Post

    Panel

    David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Harvard University Ralf Wirtz, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum

  • Enforcing a World Without Nuclear Weapons

    Chair

    Steven Miller, Harvard University

    Panel

    Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow Center Martin Briens, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France Ambassador Richard Butler AC, New York University / Penn State University

  • Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones: Past Lessons and Future Prospects

    Chair

    William Potter, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

    Panel

    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

  • The Space-Nuclear Nexus

    Chair

    Michael Krepon, The Henry L. Stimson Center

    Panel

    Philip Coyle, World Security Institute Pavel Podvig, Stanford University Dingli Shen, Fudan University

  • Luncheon: Whither U.S.-Russia Relations?

    Chair

    Peter Baker, The New York Times

    Panel

    Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, Embassy of the Russian Federation Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Department of State

  • Beyond 2010

    Chair

    H.E. Jonas Gahr Støre, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

    Panel

    Sameh Aboul-Enein, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Kingdom Robert Einhorn, Center for Strategic and International Studies H.E. Gareth Evans, International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament Ambassador Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia