6:00 - 7:00 Reception

7:00 - 7:15 Welcome and Introductions -- Michele Boyd (IEER)

7:15 - 7:45 Opening Plenary: The State of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
-- Jayantha Dhanapala (UN Undersecretary General for Disarmament)

7:45 - 8:15 Discussion

8:15 - 9:00 Article VI of the NPT
* Implementation and enforcement of Article VI of the NPT
-- Rebecca Johnson (Acronym Institute)
* Forward-looking agenda for the NPT
-- Arjun Makhijani (IEER)

Discussion

10:00 - 11:00 Technical and legal issues relating to the CTBT & ABM treaty
* Why the CTBT failed to be ratified in the Senate and what this means for future disarmament
-- Chris Paine (Natural Resources Defense Council)
* National Ignition Facility -- Hisham Zerriffi (IEER)
* Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
-- David Wright (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Question and Answer Session

2:00 - 3:00 Article I & II of the NPT
* Nuclear weapons, NATO, and the European Union
-- Otfried Nassauer (BITS)
* Security assurances -- Masa Takubo (GENSUIKIN)
* Universality and disarmament -- Arjun Makhijani (IEER)

Question and Answer Session

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 4:30 Rule of Law and Nuclear Disarmament
* Article VI Versus Declared Nuclear Policies
-- John Burroughs (Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy)
* Nuclear Weapons in International Law
-- Merav Datan (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War)

Question and Answer Session

Wednesday, April 26

SESSION IV: 10am-11:30am -- Conference Room D

10:00-10:40 US military strategy and nuclear disarmament
* Evolution of US military strategy in light of its geopolitical-economic goals
-- Michael Klare (Hampshire College)
* Russian view of how US military strategy will affect the process of nuclear disarmament
-- Vladimir Iakimets (Russian Academy of Sciences)

10:40- 11:30 Discussion