Program on Science and Global Security Weekly Seminars
January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014
Date
January 15, 2014
Speaker
Han Hua, Peking University
Title
Transparency and Sino-US Strategic Stability.
January 28, 2014
Mycle Schneider, Independent
international consultant on energy
and nuclear policy
James Acton, Carnegie Endowment
Global Trends in Nuclear Power.
February 19, 2014
February 26, 2014
March 12, 2014
April 2, 2014
John Harvey, Former Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and
Biological Defense Programs
Arjun Makhijani, Institute for
Energy and Environmental
Research
Alan Kuperman, University of
Texas at Austin
Fast and Furious, or Fast and Futile?
Assessing the Effectiveness of Hypersonic
Boost-Glide.
Update on US. Nuclear Weapons Policy and
Programs.
The Waste Confidence Trick in the Licensing
of U.S. Nuclear Power Reactors.
April 16, 2014
Uri Sadot, Council on Foreign
Relations
Explaining International Cooperation on
Nuclear Security: Lessons from the RERTR
Program.
Israel's Campaign Against Iraq's Nuclear
Program.
April 23, 2014
Jan Beyea, Consulting in the Public
Interest
Risks From Low-level Ionizing Radiation – A
Moving Landscape.
April 30, 2014
Tom Coppen, University of Utrecht
Improving International Nuclear NonProliferation Law.
May 7, 2014
Bemnet Alemayehu, Natural
Resources Defense Council
May 14, 2014
Harold McFarlane, Idaho National
Laboratory
May 19, 2014
Ryan Snyder, Nuclear policy
consultant
Real-time Radioxenon Measurement Using a
Phoswich Detector for CTBT Verification
Purposes.
An Overview of Global Development of
Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology: The
Role of the Generation IV International
Forum.
Laser Isotope Separation: A New Route to a
Bomb?
June 16, 2014
Bernadette Kafwimbi Cogswell,
Vanderbilt University
July 21, 2014
Tadahiro Katsuta, Meiji University,
Tokyo
September 17, 2014
Jonathan Medalia, Congressional
Research Service
Hints of Neutrino Mass Hierarchy from
Oscillations and the Potential Use of
Neutrinos for Nuclear Nonproliferation.
The Influence of the Fukushima Accident on
Japan's Reprocessing Policy and the
Challenges Ahead.
Nuclear Weapon Pit Production: Findings
from an Industrial Perspective
September 24, 2014
Ed Lyman, Union of Concerned
Scientists
Will the U.S. Learn the Lessons from
Fukushima?
October 15, 2014
Andrew Brown, Duke University
Medical Center
Enriching the World: Civil Nuclear Policy
under Eisenhower
November 5, 2014
Paul Murphy, Milbank, Tweed,
Hadley & McCloy LLP , Special
Counsel
Markus Schiller, Schmucker
Technologie
Developing and Financing Nuclear Power
Projects
Kazuto Suzuki and Jacqueline
Shire, Members, Iran Panel of
Experts, United Nations
Michael Schoeppner, Princeton
University Program on Science and
Global Security
Sulfikar Amir, Nanyang
Technological University,
Singapore
Deal or No deal? Prospects for Iran's Nuclear
Program and the Future of Sanctions
November 12, 2014
November 26, 2014
December 10, 2014
December 16, 2014
Missile Threat 2.0 – The Role of Rockets for
Threat Scenarios
Atmospheric Transport Modelling of Noble
Gases for Verification of Nuclear Treaties
When The Engineers Are Wrong:
Epistemological Bias in the Fukushima
Nuclear Crisis