We are living in a nuclear era of unprecedented changes. For decades, arms control and nonproliferation were a large part of the answer to the crucial question of containing the dangers created by nuclear weapons. Years of bilateral and multilateral negotiations gradually built up an extensive architecture of arrangements designed to promote stability, limit arms racing, prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, provide mechanisms for crisis management, combat nuclear terrorism, address regional nuclear dangers, and contribute to confidence building between adversaries. Today, the existing arms control and nonproliferation infrastructure is eroding while deteriorating relationships between nuclear powers and striking technological advances are raising new risks. Can arms control be adapted to the emerging technological era? Meanwhile, as indicated by the adoption of the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, much of the world demands nuclear disarmament. What are the politics and prospects for eliminating nuclear weapons?


Mansoor Ahmed, International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University, USA
William Alberque, Director, Arms Control, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, NATO
Alexei Arbatov, Head, Center for International Security, IMEMO, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Nadia Arbatova, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, IMEMO, Moscow, Russia
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
Sérgio Duarte, President of Pugwash, Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Mark Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies-Americas, UK
Paolo Foradori, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy
Martin Malin, Executive Director, Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center, Harvard Univ., USA
Mauro Oliva, Master on Organizations Management and Church Social Doctrine, Univ. Rome “T.V.”
Tariq Rauf, Former Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination, IAEA, (Canada)
Laura Rockwood, Executive Director, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Austria
Manpreet Sethi, Senior Fellow, Center for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, India
Ali A. Soltanieh, former Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency
Behnam Taebi, Associate professor of philosophy, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Carlo Trezza, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Roma, Italy
Heather Williams, Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King's College, London, UK
Jon Wolfstahl, Director, Nuclear Crisis Grp, Global Zero; Former Assistant to President Obama, USA
Tong Zhao, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing, China
 

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