Reykjavik to New START

Science Diplomacy for Nuclear Security in the 21st Century

The National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and the USIP Center of Innovation: Science, Technology & Peacebuilding held a symposium on science and diplomacy in support of international security. As we approach the 25th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit, CISAC and USIP invited prominent scientists from Russia and the United States to examine the roles of transparency and confidence building in 21st Century nuclear security.

The meeting addressed:

  1. Examples from past U.S.-Soviet/Russia interactions and how the lessons learned can be applied to current and future challenges.
  2. Monitoring and verification needs in the future.
  3. Scientists’ role in enhancing security communication and confidence between and among countries.

The Honorable William Perry, the Honorable Rose Gottemoeller, Academician Evgeny N. Avrorin, Dr. Richard Garwin, Colonel General Viktor Yesin (ret.), Professor Christopher Chyba, Thomas P. D’Agostino and several other distinguished speakers addressed these important topics.

Read an "On the Issues" Q+A with USIP expert Sheldon Himelfarb on science diplomacy.

Agenda

8:00am - 8:30am | Registration

8:30am - 8:40am | Welcome

  • Raymond Jeanloz, Introduction
    UC Berkeley and Chair, NAS CISAC
  • E. William Colglazier
    Executive Officer, NAS
  • Richard H. Solomon
    President, U.S. Institute of Peace

8:45am - 9:30am | Reflections on Reykjavik and its Implications for the Future
Introduction of Speaker, Amb. Richard Solomon, U.S Institute of Peace

  • Richard H. Solomon, Introduction
    President, U.S. Institute of Peace
  • The Honorable William Perry
    Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor Emeritus
    The Hoover Institution and Stanford University

9:30am - 11:00am | Panel I: Technical Confidence Building to Support International Security: Lessons Learned From Confidence-Building and Arms Control Verification Experiments

  • Christopher Chyba, Moderator 
    Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs
    Princeton University

The Black Sea Experiment

  • Thomas Cochran 
    Senior Scientist, Nuclear Program
    Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Viktor Firsov
    All-Russian Research Institute of Automatics
  • Roald Sagdeev
    Distinguished University Professor, Department of Physics
    University of Maryland

Joint Verification Experiments (JVE) in 1988

  • Paul Robinson
    Director (ret.)
    Sandia National Laboratory 
  • Evgeny Avrorin
    Scientific Director Emeritus of the Zababakhin Russian Federal Nuclear Center (ret.)
    All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics 
     

11:00am - 11:15am | Break

11:15am - 11:45am | The Role of Scientists in Building Confidence in Past, Current, and Future Arms Reductions Treaties

  • Raymond Jeanloz, Introduction
    Chair, NAS CISAC
  • The Honorable Rose Gottemoeller, Featured Speaker
    Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance
    U.S. Department of State

12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunchtime Speaker

  • Thomas P. D’Agostino
    Under Secretary for Nuclear Security & Administrator
    National Nuclear Security Administration

1:00pm - 1:45pm | A Military Perspective on the Value of Science Diplomacy

  • Raymond Jeanloz, Introduction
    Chair, NAS CISAC
  • Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin (ret.), Featured Speaker
    First Vice-President of Russian Federation Academy of Security, Defence, and Law Enforcement (ret.)

1:45pm - 3:00pm | Panel II: Scientists’ Role in Enhancing Communication and Confidence between and among Countries

  • Cathleen Campbell, Moderator
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Civilian Research and Defense Fund

The Role of U.S.-Soviet/Russian NGO Dialogues and Possible Directions for the Future

  • Richard Garwin
    IBM Fellow Emeritus
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • Evgeniy Avrorin
    All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics (ret.)

Disposition of Excess Weapons Fissile Material

  • Nikolai N. Ponomarev-Stepnoi
    Deputy Director Emeritus
    Kurchatov Institute
  • John F. Ahearne
    Director of the Ethics Program
    Sigma Xi

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:30 Panel III: Assessing Other Opportunities beyond the Bilateral U.S.-Russia Relationship  

  • Sheldon Himelfarb, Moderator
    Associate Vice President, Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding
    U.S. Institute of Peace

Use of Open-Source Imaging

  • David Albright 
    President and Founder
    Institute for Science and International Security

On Science Diplomacy and India

  • Norman Neureiter
    Director
    AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy

On Science Diplomacy for Security in South Asia

  • Stephen Cohen
    Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative
    The Brookings Institution

4:30pm - 4:45pm | Concluding Remarks

  • Christopher Chyba
    Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs
    Princeton University
  • Evgeniy Avrorin
    Scientific Director Emeritus of the Zababakhin Russian Federal Nuclear Center (ret.)

    All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics 

 

Partners

  • National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC)
Start Date: 
January 19, 2011 - 8:30am
End Date: 
January 19, 2011 - 4:45pm

Location

Please note the location of this event:

The Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

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