2005 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference

November 7-8, 2005
Ronald Reagan Center for International Trade
1300 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20004


Now available: prepared remarks, transcripts, audio, video, photo galleries, and panel summaries.

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Blogs Conference in Review

Jeffrey Lewis,
ArmsControlWonk.com


Tuesday, November 8, 2005
3:00 pm

Watching a radio program is fascinating experience. You see the speakers shift in the chairs, grimace at tough questions and sense the reaction among the crowd....
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Hans Kristensen,
NukeStrat.com

As A Matter of Nuclear Fact
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
5:00 PM

One of the best things the Bush administration has done, former National Security Council and Pentagon official Frank Miller told the audience of the “Utility of Nuclear Weapons” panel, “was to take Russia off the enemy list.” That’s strange, because just last month STRATCOM conducted a nuclear exercise that simulated a Russian nuclear attack on the United States. ...
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Pavel Podvig,
RussianForces.org/eng/blog

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
3:00 pm

As Linton Brooks mentioned today, the United States and Russia resolved the legal issues that held back construction of MOX fabrication facilities. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in South Carolina on October 15th...
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Paul Kerr,
ArmsControlWonk.com

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
3:45 pm
Interesting item - the German Foreign Office's Rudiger Ludeking mentioned during the “Black Markets, Loopholes, and Trade Controls” panel that Germany would've done the October 2003 BBC China (ship carrying centrifuge components to Libya) interdiction as part of its national export control legislation....
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Monday, November 7, 2005

Opening Remarks  

Joseph Cirincione delivered a multimedia presentation on "A Brief History of the Atomic Age."

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Conversation with Mohamed ElBaradei  

2005 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Director General of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei discussed his top priorities with Joseph Cirincione and answers questions from the audience.

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Keynote Addresses  

Egyptian Ambassador Nabil Fahmy addressed the conference.

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Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman delivered a major policy address.

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Annalisa Giannella, the European Union's High Representative Javier Solana's Personal Representative for WMD, spoke about the EU's multilateral approach.

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Movie Screening  

Excerpt from, "Genie in a Bottle Unleashed," a film by Trace Gaynor and Stephen Sotor

Gaynor and Sotor, both age 13, were interviewed by Joseph Cirincione.

Conversation with Historians of the Nuclear Age  

Carla Anne Robbins from the Wall Street Journal moderated a panel with historians of the nuclear age:

Robert Norris, Natural Resources Defense Council
Richard Rhodes, Author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Jonathan Schell, Yale University

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Luncheon Keynote  

The Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Robert Joseph
spoke at lunch on the Bush administration's nonproliferation policy.

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Concurrent Panels,
2:00 - 3:30 PM
 


The Iranian Stalemate
The panel was chaired by Carnegie Vice President for Studies George Perkovich.

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The Future of Verification
The panel was chaired by Dori Ellis, Sandia National Laboratories.

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The Taboos, Secrets, and Hidden History of Nuclear Weapons
The panel was chaired by William Burr, National Security Archive.

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Concurrent Panels,
4:00 - 5:30 PM
 

Preventing Catastrophic Terrorism
This panel was chaired by
Jon Wolfsthal, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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The Nuclear Deal with India
This panel was chaired by Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.

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Outer Space Security
This panel was chaired by Theresa Hitchens, Center for Defense Information.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Concurrent Panels,
9:00 - 10:30 AM
 


Negotiating with North Korea

This panel was chaired by Leon Sigal, Social Sciences Research Council.

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Congressional Oversight of Nuclear Weapons
This panel was chaired by Amy Woolf, Congressional Research Service.

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Utility of Nuclear Weapons
This panel was chaired by Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association.

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Concurrent Panels,
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
 

The New Look of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy
This panel was chaired by William Potter, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

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Reforming the Nuclear Fuel Supply
This panel was chaired by Daniel Poneman, The Scowcroft Group.

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Black Markets, Loopholes and Trade Controls
This panel was chaired by Scott Jones, University of Georgia.

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Luncheon Keynote  

Director Alexander Rumyantsev, Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency, delivered a keynote address.

Ambassador Linton Brooks, National Nuclear Security Administration, also gave a keynote address.

Talk of the Nation Panels  

Panels aired live on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation. Click on the title to listen to the show.

2:00-3:00 PM: Today's Nuclear Threats
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), Nuclear Threat Initiative
Ambassador Linton Brooks, NNSA

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3:00-4:00 PM: 60 Years of Trying to Control the Bomb
General Eugene Habiger, University of Georgia
Siegfried Hecker, Stanford University
Richard Rhodes, Author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

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