Strategy Session on

"Preventing Mass-Destruction Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation"

A strategy session of the
MONTEREY NONPROLIFERATION STRATEGY GROUP

Hosted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm, Sweden, 5-6 September 2002

Thursday, September 5th

9:00am Welcome

Alyson Bailes and William Potter

9:30am Mass-Destruction Terrorism

• Thérèse Delpech, "Catastrophic Terrorism in Europe"
• William Potter, "The Many Faces of Nuclear Terrorism"
• Harald Müller and Morten Bremer Mærli, discussants

1:00pm The Future of Nonproliferation Regimes

• Serguei Batsanov, "The Future of the CWC" (PDF format)
• Henrik Salander, "The Future of the NPT and Nuclear Nonproliferation"
• Tibor Tóth, "The Future of the BWC"

3:15pm Proliferation in the Middle East

• Brad Roberts, "War against Saddam: Arms Control Implications"
• Gary Samore, "Bush Administration Strategy on Iran"
• Nobuyasu Abe, discussant

Friday, September 6th

• 9:00am Review of First Day's Discussions
  Michael Barletta

  9:15am Russian and U.S. Priorities and Approaches to Nonproliferation

  • Alexei Arbatov, "Russian Perspectives on Nonproliferation Priorities & Approaches"
  • Grigori Berdennikov, "Russian Priorities and Approaches to Nonproliferation" (PDF format)
  • Lewis Dunn, "Nonproliferation Priorities: An Idiosyncratic American View"
  • John S. Wolf, "U.S. Approaches to Nonproliferation"

  1:30pm NATO, Russia, and Nonproliferation

  • Rolf Ekéus, "Tactical Nuclear Weapons"
  • Sverre Lodgaard, "NATO, Russia, and Nonproliferation" (PDF format)
  • Rebecca Johnson and Leonard Spector, discussants

  3:15pm Foundation Perspectives on Nonproliferation Priorities

  • George Perkovich, "The Nonproliferation Challenge and Funding Issues"
  • Mitchel Wallerstein, "Private Foundations and International Security Policy" (PDF format)

  4:15pm Future Plans for the Strategy Group

  Group discussion

This meeting and other activities of the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group have been made possible in part through the generous support of The Ford Foundation and Dr. Jeff and Mrs. Jill Harris.

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