Science & Global Security Seminar Series
Most seminars take place on Wednesdays, 12:30-2:00 pm (please note change in time) 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 no later than 2 days 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 2013 Seminars
February 6, 2013 - " Israel and Apartheid South Africa: Isolation and Nuclear Cooperation "
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The New York Times
February 27, 2013 - “ The Perils of Nuclear Proliferation (Studies)"
Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore
March 6, 2013 - " Wealth, Politics and Need: Nuclear Energy in the Middle East"
Emily Meredith, Energy Intelligence Group
April 10, 2013 - "Innovation in Nuclear Thinking: Incompetent, Dangerous or Futile?"
Benoit Pelopidas, University of Bristol
April 26, 2013 - "Neuroscience and Security: Intersections and Challenges"
Ahmed El Hady, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization
May 1, 2013 - "The Alert Status of Nuclear Weapons and the Stability of Nuclear Deterrence after the Cold War"
Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists
May 8, 2013 - " Starting from Zero: Greenland, Denmark and Arctic Yellowcake"
Cindy Vestergaard, Danish Institute for International Affairs
May 14, 2013 - " Stopping Killer Robots: Considerations for an Autonomous Weapons Convention"
Mark Gubrud, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security
May 27, 2013 - " Expert assessments of the cost of light water small modular reactors"
Ahmed Abdulla , Carnegie Mellon University
June 27, 2013 - " An update on India's nuclear posture vis a vis its nuclear neighbors"
R. Rajaraman from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Fall 2012 Seminars
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - "Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Failure of Safety Regulation"
Kazuto Suzuki, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - "How Not to Build a National (or Global) Ballistic Missile Defense System"
George N. Lewis, Cornell University
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - "Atomic Bomb Survivors Meet Harry Truman's Grandson: Testimonies and Discussion on the Nuclear Age, Past Present and Future"
Setsuko Thurlow, Yasuaki Yamashita, Clifton Truman Daniel
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - "Talk at the Brink - Deliberation and Decision During the Cuban Missile Crisis"
David Gibson, Department of Sociology, Princeton
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - "Territorial Disputes in East Asia"
Gilbert Rozman, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Friday, November 16, 2012 - "China's Civilian Nuclear Energy Expansion"
Sarah Case, U.S. Department of State
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - "Deconstructing the Nuclear Weapons Orthodoxy: the Five Central Myths in the Nuclear Weapons Debate"
Ward Wilson
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - "Scientists Against Time"
Harold Feiveson, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - " Israel and Apartheid South Africa: Isolation and Nuclear Cooperation"
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The New York Times
