Preventing Proliferation and Advancing Nuclear Disarmament

The Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Arms Control Association are pleased to invite you to the annual meeting on:

Monday, October 20, 2014
9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Root Room
1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.

With the negotiations between P5+1 and Iranian diplomats at a critical juncture and U.S.-Russian tensions halting progress on further nuclear arms reductions, this year's meeting will feature speakers and panels on solving the Iranian nuclear puzzle and jump-starting progress on global nuclear disarmament.

Agenda

9:30-9:45: Welcome
Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association

9:45-11:00: Panel 1 - Solving the Iranian Nuclear Puzzle
Robert Einhorn, Brookings Institution
Elizabeth Rosenberg, Center for a New American Security
Alireza Nader, RAND Corporation
Moderated by Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy, Arms Control Association

11:00-11:30: Arms Control Association report - "The Unaffordable Arsenal: Reducing the Costs of the Bloated U.S. Nuclear Stockpile."
Tom Z. Collina, director of policy, Ploughshares Fund
Moderated by Kingston Reif, director of disarmament/threat reduction policy, Arms Control Association

11:30: Lunch

12:00-12:55: Keynote - Lord Des Browne, Vice Chairman, Nuclear Threat Initiative and former Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom

1:00-1:30: Panel 2 - The Future of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Regime
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman
Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Representative (TBD), Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (invited)
Moderated by Daryl G. Kimball, executive director, Arms Control Association

2:15-2:30: Closing

Reminder - All attendees are invited to an evening reception at the Beacon Sky Bar to meet with the members of the staff, the Board of Directors, as well as your fellow members and guest. The reception will be from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

To RSVP for this event, please click here. We look forward to seeing you there!

*Journalists are welcome to attend on a complimentary basis. Please email Tim Farnsworth at tim@armscontrol.org before October 9 if you plan to attend.