2005 Teaching Nonproliferation Summer Institute:

Integrating Science & Politics in the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

 

Schedule of Events

 

Monday – June 27, 2005                   Registration – 12:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Elrod Commons - Livingroom

 

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.              Dinner — Elrod Commons - The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

7:30 p.m.                                 Optional Film in Elrod Center Theater

Dr. Strangelove

 

Tuesday – June 28, 2005                   Breakfast

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.              Elrod Commons The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

Morning Session                    Room A-114, Science Center

 

8:30 a.m.                                 Welcome - Thomas H. Williams, Provost of the University and Professor of Physics

                                               

8:40 a.m.                                 Robert Norris, Senior Research Associate
Natural Resources Defense Council

“Nuclear History: The Neglected Discipline”

 

            10:00 a.m.                               Break — Great Hall Science Center

 

            10:30 a.m.                               Charles Loeber, Design Engineer and Program Manager (retired)

U.S. Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories

“History of the U. S. Nuclear Weapons Complex”

 

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.          Lunch – The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

Afternoons free for informal discussion sessions and recreation

(Williams School Rooms 201, 230, and 235 available for discussion groups; Reading materials and handouts available in Room 220)

  

5:45 p.m.                                 Dinner – Cannon Green Lawn

                                                (Next to the Elrod Center)

 

7:30 p.m.                                 Keynote Address - Elrod Commons Theater  (Public Lecture)

Joseph Cirincione ,  Senior Associate & Director of the Nonproliferation Project Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

“A New Nuclear Proliferation Policy”

                                                             

 

Wednesday – June 29, 2005              Breakfast

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.              Elrod Commons The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

Morning Session                    Room A-114, Science Center

 

8:30 a.m.                                 Charles Ferguson, Science and Technology Fellow Council on Foreign Relations    

“Nuclear or Radiological Terror — Can We Stop It?”

 

10:00 a.m.                               Break — Great Hall Science Center

 

10:30 a.m.                               Anna Johnson-Winegar, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense For Chemical and Biological Defense Programs

“Biological and Chemical Weapons: Analysis of the Issues”

 

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.          Lunch

Elrod Commons The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

Afternoons free for informal discussion sessions and recreation

(Williams School Rooms 201, 230, and 235available for discussion groups; Reading materials and handouts available in Room 220)

  

5:30 p.m.                                 Dinner (Dinner on your own either on  campus or downtown)

 

Evening Session                     Room A-114, Science Center

           

7:00 p.m.                                 Avner Cohen, Senior Research Scholar Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

“The Last Taboo: Israel’s Bomb Revisited”

           

8:15 p.m.                                 Break — Great Hall Science Center

 

8:30 p.m.                                 Stephen Schwartz, Former Publisher/Executive Director Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

“The Economic, Environmental, and Public Health Costs
             of
U.S. Nuclear Weapons”

 

 

Thursday – June 30, 2005                 Breakfast

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.             Elrod Commons The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

Morning Session                    Room A-114, Science Center

 

8:30 a.m.                                 James Clay Moltz, Deputy Director and Research Professor Center for Nonproliferation Studies

“The North Korean Nuclear/Missile Crisis”

 

10:00 a.m.                               Break — Great Hall Science Center

 

10:30 a.m.                               Randall Forsberg, Executive Director Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies

U.S. Nonproliferation Policy: Current and Alternative Approaches”

 

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.          Lunch

Elrod Commons The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

Afternoons free for informal discussion sessions and recreation

(Williams School Rooms 201, 230, and 235available for discussion groups; Reading materials and handouts available in Room 220)

 

            5:45 p.m.    6:15 p.m.           Reception (Balcony, Science Center)

        

            6:15 p.m.    7:45 p.m.           Dinner (Great Hall, Science Center)

 

            Evening Session                     Room A-214,  Science Center           

 

8:00 p.m.                                 Arjun Makhijani, President and Senior Engineer, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

“Nuclear Threats and Targeting as Engines of Proliferation:
           
A Historical Survey”



Friday – July 1, 2005                         Breakfast

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.             Elrod Commons The Marketplace (Private section seating available)

 

Morning Session                   Room A-114, Science Center

 

8:30 a.m.                                 Panel Discussion: Topic and Course Development

 

12: 00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.         Lunch and depart

 

As mentioned above, afternoons are free for recreation, informal discussion among individuals, and group discussions organized around topics of interest to participants. 

 

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