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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Nuclear Weapons and International Security in the 21st Century”

PROGRAM

8 November 2012

Location: MGIMO University of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Moscow, 76 Vernadsky Ave. (new building)

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9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:00 Conference Opening

Igor S. IVANOV, President, Russian International Affairs

Council, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dmitry O. ROGOZIN, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian

Federation

Richard BURT, U.S. Chair of Global Zero, former Chief

Negotiator, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START-1, 1991), United States

Artem V. MALGIN, Vice-rector, Moscow State Institute of

International Relations (MGIMO-University), Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation

10:00-11:15 Session 1 Russian-American mutual nuclear deterrence as the basis for

strategic stability: are there alternatives?

Topics

What are the conditions that could make it possible to renounce Russian-American mutual nuclear deterrence as the basis for strategic stability?

New perception of strategic stability for the 21st century

Moderator: Sergey B. BRILYOV, TV anchorman, Deputy

Director of Special Projects, “Russia” TV Channel

Discussion Participants

Sergey A. RYABKOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the

Russian Federation



Vladimir Z. DVORKIN, Senior Researcher, Center for

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International Security Studies, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, General

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-13:00 Discussion of the Global Zero Commission’s report on nuclear

policies

Moderator: Bruce G. BLAIR, Co-Founder, Global Zero

Discussion Participants:

John SHEEHAN, former Commander in Chief, United States

Atlantic Command, former Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, General

Victor I. YESIN, Senior Researcher, Center for Military-

Industrial Policy Studies, Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Colonel General

13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:15 Session 2 Prospects of Russian-American cooperation in international

security, nuclear disarmament and BMD

Topics Preliminary results of Russian-American cooperation in

nuclear weapons limitation and reduction: a balance of success and failure.

Barriers in reaching an agreement on BMD issues:

political, military technical, psychological. Is it real to overcome them?

Moderator: James BLITZ, Defense and Diplomatic Editor, the

Financial Times


Anatoly I. ANTONOV, Deputy Minister of Defense, Russian

Federation

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Sergey M. ROGOV, Director, Institute of U.S. and Canadian

Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Steven PIFER, Director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative,

former US ambassador

John SHEEHAN, former Commander in Chief, United States

Atlantic Command, former Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, General

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break 15:45-17:45 Session 3 Multilateral nuclear disarmament: ways to achieve the goal

Topics

Could nuclear weapons arsenals of third countries

affect the stability of Russian-American bilateral deterrence? Could they influence the stability in foreseeable future?

What are possible conditions and format for engaging other nuclear states in Russian-American negotiations on nuclear disarmament?

Moderator: Margarita SIMONYAN, Editor-in-chief, “Russia

Today” TV channel


Vladimir L. LEONTIEV, Deputy director, Security and

Disarmament Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian

Federation



James BLITZ, Defense and Diplomatic Editor, the Financial

Times

Paul QUILES, Minister of Defense (1985-1986), Minister of

Interior and Public Security (1992-1993), France

Mahmud DURRANI, former National Security Advisor to Prime

Minister of Pakistan, Ambassador of the Republic of Pakistan to the United States (2006-2008)

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Shlomo BEN AMI, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2000-2001),

Minister of National Security (1999-2000), Israel

17:45-18:15 Coffee Break 18.15-19.45 Session 4 International cooperation in countering nuclear terrorism and

nuclear weapons proliferation

Topics

Is further nuclear weapons proliferation inevitable?

Could the international community halt the process? Are international institutions and mechanisms capable of

standing up to such threats as nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear terrorism? Reasons for the failure to enhance the efficiency of these institutions or to set up new ones.

Moderator: Anton V. KHLOPKOV, Director, Center for Energy

and Security Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Club Journal


Grigory V. BERDENNIKOV, Ambassador-at-Large, Foreign

Ministry of the Russian Federation

Anatoly E. SAFONOV, Vice President, Rusatom Overseas Co.,

Colonel General

Steven PIFER, Director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative,

former US ambassador

Shlomo BEN AMI, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2000-2001),

Minister of National Security (1999-2000), Israel

Seyed Hossein MOUSAVIAN, Head of the Foreign Relations

Committee of Iran’s National Security Council (1997-2005)

19:45-20:00 Closing Ceremony Richard BURT, U.S. Chair of Global Zero, former Chief


Igor S. IVANOV, President, Russian International Affairs

Council, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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