“Global Nuclear Challenges and Solutions for the Next U.S. President”
The June 6, 2016 Arms Control Association Annual Meeting
9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.*
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Root Room
1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
*Evening reception at 5:00 p.m. at Sky Bar
On June 6, shortly after President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, we will host our 2016 Annual Meeting featuring keynote remarks from President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes and Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and 2015 "Arms Control Person of the Year" award winner Setsuko Thurlow.
We will examine the global nuclear nonproliferation challenges that will confront the next U.S. president, with presentations from:
- Ambassador Susan Burk, head of U.S. delegation to the 2010 NPT Review Conference;
- Toby Dalton, Co-director of the Carnegie Endowment Nuclear Policy Program;
- Zia Mian, Director of the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University; and
- Joel Wit, Visiting Scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS.
We will also discuss the high costs and policy dilemmas posed by the U.S. plans for nuclear weapons, with:
- Andrew Weber, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs;
- Amy Woolf, Specialist in Nuclear Weapons Policy at the Congressional Research Service; and
- Mark F. Cancian, Senior Advisor with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
For the full agenda, please visit: bit.ly/ArmsControl16
Speakers
Ben Rhodes
