Integrating Science and Politics in the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction: The 2005 Summer Institute on Teaching Nonproliferation

June 27 to July 2
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia

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This faculty workshop is designed to help instructors prepare or update course material related to weapons of mass destruction and nonproliferation. Experts on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons will present current information on issues facing the United States and the world community as a result of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The final day of the conference will be devoted to course development and the exchange of curricular materials related to these subjects. Particular attention will be given to the development of interdisciplinary courses that integrate science and social science perspectives.

Selected participants will be provided with food and housing at Washington and Lee University plus a modest grant of $250 to help cover some of the costs associated with travel to Lexington, Virginia.

Sponsored by

U. S. Institute of Peace
Washington and Lee University
The Ploughshares Fund
National Science Foundation
Program Coordinators

Professor Frank Settle, Chemistry
Professor Robert Strong, Politics

The program for this workshop has been adapted from two earlier summer institutes organized by Professor Dot Sulock, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Asheville in the summers of 2003 & 2004 and supported by the Ploughshares Fund.

Guest speakers included:

Joseph Cirincione (keynote)
Senior Associate & Director of the Nonproliferation Project
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Avner Cohen
Senior Research Scholar
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

James Doyle
Nonproliferation and International Security Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Charles Ferguson
Science and Technology Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Randall Forsberg
Executive Director
Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies

Charles Loeber
Design Engineer and Program Manager (retired)
U.S. Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories

James Clay Moltz
Deputy Director and Research Professor
Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Arjun Makhijani
President and Senior Engineer
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Robert Norris
Senior Research Associate
Natural Resources Defense Council

Stephen Schwartz
Former Publisher/Executive Director Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
author of Atomic Audit

Anna Johnson-Winegar
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
For Chemical and Biological Defense Programs