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Nuclear Dangers and the State of Security Treaties

Conference hosted by the
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)

Tuesday, April 9, 2002
United Nations, New York

Agenda


SESSION I: 11am-12:30pm. Conference Room B of the UN building

11:00 - 11:10 Welcome and Introductions - Michele Boyd (IEER)

11:10 - 12:30 The state of treaty compliance

* Compliance with security treaties: Overview - Nicole Deller

* State of the ABM, CTBT, and Kyoto Protocol - Arjun Makhijani (IEER)

* NPT compliance - John Burroughs (Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy)


SESSION II: 2pm-5pm. Conference Room B of the UN building

2:00 - 3:45pm The role of treaty compliance and nuclear proliferation

* The function of treaties in international security - Merav Datan (IPPNW/PSR)

* Role of the nonproliferation regime in preventing non-state nuclear proliferation - Natalie Goldring (University of Maryland)

* International law related to terrorism - Peter Weiss (Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy)

3:45 - 4:00pm Break

4:00 - 5:00pm Technical issues related to nuclear proliferation

* Role of nuclear material accounting and control in the NPT - Ed Lyman (Nuclear Control Institute)

* Reprocessing and proliferation - Arjun Makhijani (IEER)


SESSION III: 6pm-9pm. Church Center, 2nd Floor of 777 UN Plaza

6:00 - 7:00pm Reception

7:00 - 7:30pm The Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear disarmament, and terrorism - Jayantha Dhanapala (UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament)

7:30 - 8:00pm Discussion

8:00 - 9:00pm Panel response and discussion

* View from Russia - Alla Yaroshinskaya (Ecological Foundation, Russia)

* View from South Asia - Admiral L. Ramdas (India-Pak People's Forum for Peace and Democracy)

* Arjun Makhijani (IEER) - Moderator

Related IEER literature:
  • Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties, IEER/LCNP report, April 2002
  • Nuclear Weapons and International Law (Science for Democratic Action vol. 9 no. 3, May 2001)
  • Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Science for Democratic Action vol. 8 no. 2, February 2000)

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    Conference held April 9, 2002
    New transcripts added July 12, 2002