The Foreign Policy In Focus project presents:

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Cold War Legacies in a Post-9.11 World
Conference at New York Univerisity on November 26-27

Agenda:

Monday, November 26
7:00 p.m.	EVENING DISCUSSION: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, POST-9/11
		Jonathan Schell Harold Willens Peace Fellow, The Nation Institute, and author, The Gift of Time (1998) and Fate of the Earth (1982) Michael Klare Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College
9:00 p.m.	RECEPTION

Tuesday, November 27
8:00-9:00 a.m.	BREAKFAST
9:00-10:30 a.m.	TRANSATLANTIC PRESS CONFERENCE
		Journalists in New York, Washington, and Moscow will jointly question WMD experts assembled in both cities. Sponsored by the Ploughshares Fund, organized in collaboration with the Center for War and Peace Journalism (Moscow). Open to the public. Moderator: William Hartung Director, Arms Trade Research Center; Fellow, World Policy Institute
10:45-12:15 p.m.	PANEL 1: CURRENT THREATS FROM WMD
		Moderator: Cora Weiss President, Hague Appeal for Peace Yogesh Chandrani-Instability in South Asia International Relations, Columbia University Andrew Cockburn-Leakage of nuclear materials out of Russia Author, One Point Safe Amy Smithson-Chemical and Biological weapons Director, Chemical and Biological Weapons Project, Henry L. Stimson Center Robert Alvarez-Security of U.S. nuclear arsenal Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies; former senior policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy
12:30-1:45 p.m.	LUNCH
		Speaker: Frances Fitzgerald Pulitizer Prize-winning Author, Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000)
1:45-3:15 p.m.	PANEL 2: CHANGING U.S.-RUSSIA SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
		Moderator: Martha Honey Co-Director, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Studies Kimberly Zisk-Changing U.S.-Russia Relations Professor, Harriman Institute, Columbia University and member, Council on Foreign Relations Bruce Blair-U.S. Nuclear Policy President, Center for Defense Information Joseph Cirincione-Reducing & securing cold war stockpiles: U.S. Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Non-proliferation Project Kenneth Luongo-Reducing & securing cold war stockpiles: Russia Executive Director, Russian American Security Advisory Council; Senior Visiting Fellow, Princeton University; former Director of Office of Arms Control and Non-proliferation at Department of Energy
3:15-3:30 p.m.	BREAK
3:30-5:00 p.m.	PANEL THREE: BUILDING POST-COLD WAR, POST-9/11 SECURITY
		Moderator: Steven Solnick Associate Professor of Political Science, Harriman Institute, Columbia University John Gershman Asia-Pacific Editor, Foreign Policy In Focus; Senior Analyst, Interhemispheric Resource Center Leon Sigal Social Science Research Council Pavel Podvig Center for Arms Control Studies, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Michael Ratner Center for Constitutional Rights
For further information, please contact: Kathy Spillman, Institute for Policy Studies, 202-234-9382, ext. 258

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