2005 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference
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Keynote and Plenary speakers: Concurrent Panels:

Jessica T. Mathews

The Iranian Stalemate The Future of Verification
President,
Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace

Chair: George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment
Ariel Levite, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Pierre Goldschmidt, Carnegie Endowment
Vladimir Orlov, PIR Center
Therese Delpech, Center for International Studies, Paris

Chair: Dori Ellis, Sandia National Laboratories
Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Endowment
James Goodby, Brookings Institution
Michael Krepon, Henry L. Stimson Center
Paula DeSutter, US Dept. of State
Joseph Cirincione
The Taboos, Secrets, and Hidden History of Nuclear Weapons The Nuclear Deal with India
Director for
Non-Proliferation
Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace
Chair: William Burr, National Security Archive
Lynn Eden, CISAC, Stanford University
Robert Norris, Natural Resources Defense Council
Nina Tannenwald, Brown University

Chair: Henry Sokolski, NPEC
David Fite, House International Relations Committee
Andrew Semmel, US Dept. of State
Baker Spring, Heritage Foundation
Sverre Lodgaard, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Mohamed ElBaradei
Preventing Catastrophic Terrorism Outer Space Security
Director General,
International Atomic Energy Agency;
Winner of the 2005
Nobel Peace Prize

Chair: Jon Wolfsthal, CSIS
Ashton Carter, Harvard University
Rose Gottemoeller, Carnegie Endowment
Christopher Chyba, Princeton University
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

 

Chair: Theresa Hitchens, CDI
Paul Meyer, Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Brig. General Simon Worden, University of Arizona
Ye Ru’an, China Arms Control and Disarmament Association
Richard Garwin, IBM
Samuel W. Bodman
Negotiating with North Korea
Utility of Nuclear Weapons
Secretary of Energy

Chair: Leon Sigal, Social Science Research Council
Siegfried Hecker, Stanford University
Daniel Poneman, The Scowcroft Group

Chair: Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association
Ivan Oelrich, Federation of American Scientists
Frank Miller, The Cohen Group
Henrik Salander, WMD Commission
General Eugene Habiger, former Commander-in-Chief, US Strategic Command

Annalisa Giannella

Congressional Oversight of Nuclear Weapons
Reforming the Nuclear Fuel Supply

EU High Representative Javier Solana's Personal Representative for WMD

Chair: Amy Woolf, Congressional Research Service
Stephen Schwartz, editor, Atomic Audit
Rep. Ellen Tauscher, (D-CA)
Rep. Christopher Shays, (R-CT)

Chair: Daniel Poneman, Scowcroft Group
Chaim Braun, CISAC, Stanford University
Pierre Goldschmidt, Carnegie Endowment
Valentin Ivanov, Member, State Duma, Russian Federation
James Timbie, U.S. Dept of State
William J. Perry Black markets, Loopholes, and Trade Controls The New Look of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy
Former Secretary of Defense

Chair: Scott Jones, CITS, University of Georgia
Richard Cupitt, American University
Rudiger Ludeking, German Foreign Office

Tariq Rauf, IAEA
Todd Perry, U.S. Dept of Energy

Chair: Bill Potter, Monterey Institute
Lewis Dunn, SAIC
Harald Mueller, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute
Henry Sokolski, NPEC
Nabil Fahmy

Special Plenary Session was open to the public, co-sponsored by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists marking 60 years of publication.

Egyptian Ambassador to the United States National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation broadcast live from the conference with guests discussing "60 Years of Trying to Control the Bomb," and a special panel on "Today's Nuclear Threats" that featured former Senator Sam Nunn, Senator Richard Lugar, and Ambassador Linton Brooks.

The conference concluded with a reception hosted by The Bulletin.
Sam Nunn

Panel Discussions:

Former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA);
Co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative


Today's Nuclear Threats
Host: Neal Conan, National Public Radio
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), Nuclear Threat Initiative
Ambassador Linton Brooks, NNSA


60 Years of Trying to Control the Bomb
Host: Neal Conan, National Public Radio
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

Richard Lugar
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN); chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee

General Eugene E. Habiger

 Conference Information:

Former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Strategic Command

The conference took place November 7-8 at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. For a conference information sheet, click here.

Linton Brooks Past Conferences:
Undersecretary of energy for nuclear security (NNSA)

To read transcripts, listen to audio, and watch video from the 2004 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference, click here.

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Click below for more resources on past conferences:

2002 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference

2001 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference

Siegfried Hecker

Stanford University; Former Director, Los Alamos National Lab

Richard Rhodes Other Resources:
Author, Pulitzer Prize-Winner for
The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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