IEER Conference
United Nations
New York
April 24-26, 2000
Monday, April 24
SESSION I: Evening — Dag Hammerskjold Library Auditorium
- 6:00 – 7:00 Reception
- 7:00 – 7:15 Welcome and Introductions
— Michele Boyd (IEER) - 7:15 – 7:45 Opening Plenary: The State of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
— Jayantha Dhanapala (UN Undersecretary General for Disarmament) - 7:45 – 8:15 Discussion
- 8:15 – 9:00 Article VI of the NPT
- Implementation and enforcement of Article VI of the NPT
— Rebecca Johnson (Acronym Institute) - Forward-looking agenda for the NPT
— Arjun Makhijani (IEER) - Discussion
Tuesday, April 25
SESSION II: 10:00am-11:00am — Conference Room D
- 10:00 – 11:00 Technical and legal issues relating to the CTBT & ABM treaty
- Why the CTBT failed to be ratified in the Senate and what this means for future disarmament
— Chris Paine (Natural Resources Defense Council) - National Ignition Facility
— Hisham Zerriffi (IEER) - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
— David Wright (Union of Concerned Scientists) - Question and Answer Session
SESSION III: 2:00pm-4:30pm
- 2:00 – 3:00 Article I & II of the NPT
- Nuclear weapons, NATO, and the European Union
— Otfried Nassauer (BITS) - Security assurances
— Masa Takubo (GENSUIKIN) - Universality and disarmament
— Arjun Makhijani (IEER) - Question and Answer Session
- 3:00 – 3:20 Break
- 3:20 – 4:30 Rule of Law and Nuclear Disarmament
- Article VI Versus Declared Nuclear Policies
— John Burroughs (Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy) - Nuclear Weapons in International Law
— Merav Datan (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) - Question and Answer Session
Wednesday, April 26
SESSION IV: 10am-11:30am — Conference Room D
- 10:00-10:40 US military strategy and nuclear disarmament
- Evolution of US military strategy in light of its geopolitical-economic goals
— Michael Klare (Hampshire College) - Russian view of how US military strategy will affect the process of nuclear disarmament
— Vladimir Iakimets (Russian Academy of Sciences) - 10:40- 11:30 Discussion