Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Breakfast Seminar Series

Michael Moodie and Jonathan B. Tucker, Co-Chairs

In December 2005, the CNS Washington Office launched a new series of breakfast seminars devoted to chemical and biological weapons (CBW) issues, reviving an idea launched several years ago by Michael Moodie of the now-defunct Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute. The breakfast seminars, which are co-chaired by Moodie and CNS Senior Fellow Jonathan Tucker, are designed for the Washington policy community, including U.S. government officials, congressional staffers, non-governmental analysts, and foreign diplomats. Thus far, the series has included timely presentations on chemical incapacitating agents, bioterrorism legislation, the history of chemical weapons, and biological threat reduction in the former Soviet Union.

The seminar series is held at the CNS Washington, DC offices. To RSVP for future seminars please email monterey.cns.rsvp@gmail.com

Past Seminars:

• CBW Breakfast Seminar on Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction
  Paul Boren, Chief, Chemical Demilitarization and Threat Reduction, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
  Joseph Christoff, Director, International Affairs and Trade Team, Government Accountability Office (GAO), U.S. Congress
  June 28, 2006

• The Conduct of Laboratory Research to Characterize Biological Threat Agents
  W. Seth Carus, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Center for the Study of WMD, National Defense University
  Discussant Milton Leitenberg, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), University of Maryland
  May 4, 2006

• Biological Threat Reduction in Central Asia and the Caucasus
  Scott A. Levac, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  Mar. 28, 2006

• The History of Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
  Jonathan B. Tucker, CNS Senior Fellow
  Mar. 14, 2006

• The Biodefense Legislative Agenda for 2006
  Robert P. Kadlec, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Bioterrorism, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP)
  David N. Bowen, Minority Staff Director for Health, Senate HELP Committee
  Jan. 23, 2006

• The Moscow Theater Incident and Other Uses of Chemical Incapacitants: What is Permitted Under International Law?
  David A. Koplow, Georgetown University Law Center
  Jared H. Silberman, Office of General Counsel, US Navy
  Dec. 20, 2005