Science & Global Security Seminar Series
Most seminars take place on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30 pm at 221 Nassau Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room unless otherwise noted. Lunch is provided.
If you are planning to attend, please rsvp to sgs@princeton.edu by noon the day before the seminar is scheduled so that we can order lunch appropriately.
For more information or any questions, please contact M.V. Ramana at ramana@princeton.edu
Spring 2012 Seminars
February 8, 2012 - "North Korea as an Emerging Nuclear Power: Does the Pakistan model Apply?"
Joel Wit, US-Korea Institute at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
February 10, 2012 - “Radioactive Fallout, the Politics of Risk, and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis, 1954-1963”
Toshihiro Higuchi, CISAC, Stanford University
February 15, 2012 - "The Nuclear Socio-Political Economy”
Benjamin Sovacool, Vermont Law School
March 7, 2012 - "Arms Control Options for Dealing With Iran's Nuclear Program"
Steven Kull, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland and director of its Program on International Policy Attitudes.
March 14, 2012 - "Safe and Unsafe Nuclear Reactors"
Freeman Dyson listen to audio file of this talk
March 28, 2012 - “The Technology, Effectiveness and Politics of Missile Defense”
Philip Coyle, formerly Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
April 10, 2012 - “Why the European Missile Defense Has Already Failed: The Implications of New Facts Released by the US Government”
Ted Postol, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 18, 2012 - "Tactical Satellites for Battlefield Operations: An Engineering Feasibility Study"
Jaganath Sankaran, Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM), University of Maryland
April 25, 2012 - "Protection States Trust?: Superpower Patronage, Nuclear Behavior, and Alliance Dynamics"
Alexander Lanoszka, Department of Politics, Princeton University
April 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m. - "Regulatory Notes from a Small Island"
Nick Baldwin, Chair of the Office for Nuclear Regulation in the UK
Fall 2011 Seminars
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - "From Trinity to Twitter: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Science, Technology, and World Affairs--1945-2011"
Kennette Benedict and Mindy Bricker, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - "A New International Framework for Nuclear Energy?"
John Carlson, Lowy Institute for International Policy
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - “I'm Warning You: Some Thoughts on Institutions and Warning”
Lee Clarke, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - “Classifying Dual-use Science: Lessons from the Early History of Laser Fusion”
Alex Wellerstein, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - " Inverse Problems and the Verification of Arms-control Agreements"
Chris Lawrence, University of Michigan
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - “Assessing Nuclear Dangers in Pakistan”
Toby Dalton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - "Dynamics of the Reagan-era Arms Control Process and Lessons for Today's Policymakers"
Joseph Lehman, independent government relations consultant
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - “Safety Aspects of Small, Modular Reactors”
Vinod Mubayi, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - " Nuclear Policymaking in the Wake of Fukushima"
Peter Bradford, Vermont Law School
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - "Scientific Engagement and Nonproliferation: Learning Lessons from Cooperative Threat Reduction"
Sharon K. Weiner, School of International Service at American University
