EVENT PROGRAM
*Subject to change
| 8:00 am |
Registration begins |
| 9:00 am |
Welcome: Daryl G. Kimball, executive director |
| 9:10 am |
Keynote Address: Jake Sullivan
National Security Advisor to the President |
| 10:15 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am |
PANEL I: Preventing a Three-Way Nuclear Arms Race
- Lynn Rusten, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Jon Wolfsthal, former senior director for arms control and nonproliferation at the NSC
- Tong Zhao, Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton
- Thomas Countryman, Arms Control Association, moderator
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| 11:30 am |
Break for Lunch Service |
| 12:00 pm |
Keynote Address: Ambassador Alexander Kmentt
Director of Disarmament, Arms control, and Nonproliferation at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and President of the First Meeting of the States-Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons |
| 1:00 pm |
PANEL II: Reducing Nuclear Risks and Reinforcing the Taboos Against Nuclear Use and Threats
- Rebecca Davis Gibbons, University of Southern Maine and co-chair of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group at the Harvard Project on Managing the Atom
- Morton H. Halperin, former senior official on arms control and defense matters in the Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama administrations
- Amy F. Woolf, Atlantic Council
- Daryl G. Kimball, Arms Control Association, moderator
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| 2:00 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 2:15 pm |
PANEL III: The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Is There a Diplomatic Plan B?
- Kelsey Davenport, Arms Control Association
- Ali Vaez, International Crisis Group
- Dylan Williams, J Street
- Barbara Slavin, Stimson Center, moderator
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| 3:20 pm |
PANEL IV: Risk and Regulation of AI in Nuclear Command and Control
- Paul Dean, U.S. State Department
- Chris Meserole, Brookings Institution
- Helen Toner, Georgetown Center for Security and
- Emerging Technology
- Shannon Bugos, Arms Control Association, moderator
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| 4:20 pm |
Closing: Daryl G. Kimball, executive director |
