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Marilyn Marks (609) 258-5748March 13, 2000
Princeton Conference Examines Russia's Nuclear Complex
Policymakers from the U.S. and Russia will gather at Princeton University March 14 and 15 to discuss the conversion of Russia's nuclear weapons complex, a critical issue for both the Russian economy and for international efforts to stem nuclear weapons proliferation.
This major conference will bring together for the first time key American and Russian officials with experts from the U.S. Congress, universities, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. Together they will assess efforts to convert Russia's once-secret nuclear cities from weapons work to peaceful production.
Lev Ryabev, deputy minister of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, will lead the Russian delegation and present Russia's experience of downsizing and conversion. Other senior Russian participants include officials with direct responsibility for the nuclear cities and scientists from the nuclear weapons laboratories and production plants.
Ernest J. Moniz, undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, will speak on U.S. efforts to assist Russian nuclear conversion. Other U.S. officials to speak include Ambassador William Taylor, coordinator of United States assistance to new independent states in the State Department; and Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of energy for nonproliferation and national security in the Department of Energy.
"The conference will help create a more constructive US-Russian dialogue which will nurture non-proliferation cooperation between both countries," said conference organizer Sharon Weiner, a research associate at Princeton.
The conference is sponsored by Princeton University's Program on Nuclear Policy Alternatives, a project of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Center of International Studies of the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. It has been made possible by a grant from the JJJ Foundation.
The conference will be held at Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus. An agenda is attached.
HELPING RUSSIA DOWNSIZE ITS
NUCLEAR-WEAPONS COMPLEXMarch 14-15, 2000, Dodds Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Robertson Hall), Princeton University
AGENDA
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
8:30-9:00 AM REGISTRATION and Continental Breakfast
Dodds Auditorium, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Robertson Hall
9:00-9:30 AM GREETINGS AND CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Greetings
Michael Doyle
Director of the Center of International Studies, Princeton UniversityConference Overview
Frank von Hippel
Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University9:30-11:00 AM RUSSIAN AND U.S. STRATEGIC APPROACHES
Chair: Frank von Hippel
Russia's Downsizing and Conversion Program
Lev Ryabev
Deputy Minister, Russian Ministry of Atomic EnergyU.S. Assistance to Russia
William Taylor
Coordinator of United States Assistance to the New Independent States, U.S. Department of StateThe Nuclear Cities Initiative and Its Synergism with Other DOE Efforts
Ernest J. Moniz
Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Energy11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:15 AM-1:00 PM CURRENT CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA'S CLOSED NUCLEAR CITIES
Chair: Frank von Hippel
Snezinsk (Chelyabinsk-70)
Evgeny Avrorin
Scientific Director, All Russian Institute of Technical PhysicsSarov (Arzamas-16)
Vassili P. Neznamov
First Deputy Director, All-Russia Institute of Experimental Physics; andYury Zavalishin
General Director, Electromechanical Plant "Avangard"The Eight Other Closed Nuclear Cities
Anatoli Diakov
Director, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environment, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology1:00-2:30 PM LUNCH, Shultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall (no speaker)
2:45-4:00 PM PERSPECTIVES ON PROGRAMS AND POSSIBLE PATHS FORWARD (Part 1)
Chair: Ken Luongo
Background on U.S. Cooperative Activities in Russia's Nuclear Cities
Sharon Weiner
Research Associate, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies, Princeton UniversityThe Nuclear Cities Initiative
Rose Gottemoeller
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security, U.S. Department of EnergyThe Moscow International Science & Technology Center
Steven Aoki
Director, Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction, U.S. Department of State4:00-4:15 PM COFFEE/TEA BREAK
4:15-5:30 PM PERSPECTIVES ON PROGRAMS AND POSSIBLE PATHS FORWARD (PART 2)
Chair: Ken Luongo
A Russian Perspective on U.S.-Russian Cooperative Activities
Victor Belkin (invited)
Main Specialist, Russian Ministry of Atomic EnergyAccelerated Conversion Proposal for Sarov
Siegfried Hecker
Former Director, Los Alamos National LaboratoryCongressional Interest and Concern for the Nuclear Cities
Peter Lyons
Science Advisor to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici6:30 PM RECEPTION, Prospect House
7:30 PM DINNER, Prospect House
After-Dinner Speaker
Andrei Kortunov
President, Moscow Public Science FoundationWEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
8:30-10:15 AM CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES I
Chair: Matthew Bunn
Re-Structuring the U.S. Nuclear Complex
Victor Reis
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)Conversion in the Russian Nuclear-Weapons Complex
Vladimir Starosotnikov (invited)
Deputy Director, Department of Conversion, Russian Ministry of Atomic EnergyDown-Sizing of Russia's Nuclear-Weapons Production Infrastructure
Oleg Bukharin
Research Staff, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies, Princeton UniversityOpportunities from Nuclear Disarmament
Thomas Neff
Research Affiliate, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology10:15-10:30 AM COFFEE/TEA BREAK
10:30 AM-12:00 PM CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES II
Chair: Matthew Bunn
Connecting to the Internet -- Communications Infrastructure Projects
Semion Musher
Open Society InstituteBusiness
Jana Fankhauser
Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryDavid Bernstein
Research Associate, Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford UniversityEnergy Efficiency
Meredydd Evans
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
European Nuclear Cities InitiativeMaurizio Martellini
Secretary General, Laudau Network Coordination Center12:00-1:30 PM LUNCH, Shultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall, (no speaker)
1:30-3:30 PM EXPANDING AND REFOCUSING THE EFFORT
Chair: Frank von Hippel
Matthew Bunn
Assistant Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard UniversityVladimir Rybachenkov
Councilor, Department for Security, Affairs and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Russian FederationKen Luongo
Executive Director, RANSACDiscussion