Program

Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise
The 25th Anniversary Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
February 23-27, 2011
Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
www.tuftsgloballeadership.org

Wednesday, February 23

Religion, Ethics, and the Bomb
7:30pm

Michael Broyde
Professor of Law and Academic Director, Law and Religion Program, School of Law, Emory University

David Cortright
Coauthor, Towards Nuclear Zero; Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

J. Bryan Hehir
Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard University; Author, “The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change”

Michael Light
Visual Artist and Photographer; Author, 100 Suns

Chanikarn Wongviriyawong
PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Soka Gakkai International


Thursday, February 24

Nuclear Renaissance? The Reliability and Desirability of Nuclear Power
7:30pm

Introduction and Overview of “The Genie Travels On: The Challenge of Emergent Nuclear States” Workshop by co-conveners
Richard Meserve, Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Vincent Manno, Associate Vice Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University

Richard Meserve
Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Steve Miller
Director, International Security Program, Harvard University; Co-director, On the Global Nuclear Future Project, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

William Moomaw
Professor of International Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Robert Rosner
Former Director, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago

Brice Smith
Author, Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change


Friday, February 25

Nuclear Secrets: Democracy and the National Security State
12:00pm

Thomas Blanton
Director, National Security Archive
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, CIA

Svetlana Savranskaya
Director, Cooperative Projects with Russia, National Security Archive

Bryan Taylor
Associate Professor of Communication, University of Colorado-Boulder; Author, “Revis(it)ing Nuclear History: Narrative Conflict at the Bradbury Science Museum”

Alex Wellerstein
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Author, "Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939–2008"





The Nuclear Regime: Power Politics and the Future of the NPT
2:00pm

Emma Belcher
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Policy Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Australia

Han Hua
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Arms Control and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Peking University, China

Olli Heinonen
Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International AtomicEnergy Commission (IAEA)

Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor of Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Department Head, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan

Steve Miller
Director, International Security Program, Harvard University; Co-director, On the Global Nuclear Future Project, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Nina Tannenwald
Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Author, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons since 1945



Welcome and Introductions
6:30pm

Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Lawrence Bacow, President, Tufts University
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost, Tufts University


100 Suns
Michael Light
Visual Artist and Photographer; Author, 100 Suns

The Legacy of Hiroshima
7:00pm

Introduction of Inquiry in Japan and 20th Anniversary of Inquiry
Heather Barry, AssociateDirector, Institute for Global Leadership

Tadatoshi Akiba
Mayor of Hiroshima; President, Mayors for Peace (via video)

Shigeko Sasamori
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor

Inquiry in Japan
Efrain Perez, Junior, Banana Kelly High School
Ben Howard, Senior, Columbia Preparatory School

Ben Perlstein, Sophomore, Synaptic Scholar, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Nadia Nibbs, Senior, Synaptic Scholar, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University


The US Nuclear Strategic Posture: Deterrence, START and Beyond
8:00pm

Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Author, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award

Rose Gottemoeller
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, US Department of State
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award

Paul Hughes
Director of the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Program, US Institute of Peace

Ariel Levite
Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission

William J Perry
Former US Secretary of Defense; Former CoChair, Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award

Gwyn Prins
Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; 2005 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Recipient

Student Participant
Ian Kelly, Freshman, EPIIC 2010-11 Colloquium Member

Saturday, February 26

Confronting North Korea
9:30am

Amb Stephen Bosworth
Special Representative for North Korea Policy, US Department of State; Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; 2010 Dr. Jean Mayer Global CitizenshipAward Recipient

John Park
Senior Research Associate (Northeast Asia), Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, US Institute of Peace

Gary Samore
Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism

Etel Solingen
Author, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East

Student Participants
Delegation from Seoul National University


Rethinking Iran
11:15am

Olli Heinonen
Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International AtomicEnergy Commission (IAEA)

Ariel Levite
Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award

Gary Samore
Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism

Etel Solingen
Author, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East

Jim Walsh
Member, Steering Committee, Fissile Material Security Working Group; Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT





South Asia: Nuclear Ambitions and Intentions
2:30pm

Han Hua
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Arms Control and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Peking University, China

Anupam Srivastava
Assistant Director for Research & Analysis, Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia

Vipin Narang
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Author, “Posturing for Peace? Pakistan’s Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability”



Sunday, February 27


Nuclear Terrorism: The Global Specter
1:00pm

Matthew Bunn
Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Olli Heinonen
Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International AtomicEnergy Commission (IAEA)

Roger Molander
Social Scientist, RAND Corporation; Former Member, National Security Council Staff, principalarea of responsibility was strategic nuclear arms control

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, CIA


The Day After: 21st Century Nuclear Attack
3:00pm

David Cortright
Coauthor, Towards Nuclear Zero; Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Cdr Robert Green (British Royal Navy, retired)
Author, Security without Deterrence

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, CIA

Jim Walsh
Member, Steering Committee, Fissile Material Security Working Group; Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT

Student Participant
Avantha Arachchi, Sophmore, EPIIC 2010-11 Colloquium Member