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Release: Sept. 27, 1995
Contact: Patricia Coen (609/258-5764)


Arms Control Seminar Series to be
Presented at Princeton University

Princeton, N.J.--A series of six seminars on issues related to
arms control will be given at Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The series
begins at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, October 2, and extends into
December.

Guest speakers, all experts in their fields, will discuss various
aspects of arms control, including nuclear disarmament, the
Chemical Weapons Convention, and arms export limitations. The
series has been organized by Professor of Public and
International Affairs Frank von Hippel, recently assistant
director for national security in the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy.

The series is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School's Program
in Science, Technology, and Public Policy and the Program on
Nuclear Policy Alternatives.

Arms Control Seminar Series Schedule
Monday, October 2, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
``The New `Star Wars' Program and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament''
Theodore Postol, professor at M.I.T.'s Center for International
Studies, is the leader of a group at M.I.T. that is challenging
the rationales for the new anti-missile program.

Monday, October 16, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
``Why Countries Decide Not to Acquire Nuclear Weapons''
Mitchel Reiss, author of Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain
Their Nuclear Capabilities (1995), is a senior official at the
Korean Penninsula Energy Development Organization, which is
responsible for dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons
capabilities while building two nuclear power reactors there.

Monday, October 23, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 5
``The U.S. Industrial Partnering Program and Its Effects on
Nonproliferation and Economic Development in Russia''
Michael Deegan is president of the U.S. Industry Coalition Inc.

Monday, November 6, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
``The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)''
Amy Smithson is a senior associate at the Stimson Center in
Washington, D.C. The CWC, which bans development or possession of
chemical weapons and opens the world's chemical industry to
international inspection, is up for ratification by the Senate.

Monday, November 20, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
``Conventional Arms ReductionsÑLessons from the Success in Europe''
Ambassador Jonathan Dean, adviser on the international security
issues for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C,
was a negotiator in the talks that yielded the Treaty on
Conventional Forces in Europe.

Monday, November 27, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
``Arms Export Limitations''
Lora Lumpe is director of the Federation of American Scientists
Arms Sales Monitoring Project. Concerns about preserving the U.S.
``defense industrial base'' and jobs in the military industry have
muted opposition to the U.S. becoming the world's leading arms
exporter, but a ``Code of Conduct,'' which would require a
presidential request and a congressional vote to export weapons to
countries that do not promote democracy or respect human rights,
or that engage in acts of aggression, is receiving increasing
support.

Monday, December 11, 4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 6
``Can We Abolish Nuclear Weapons?''
Jonathan Schell is a journalist and author of the best-selling
book The Fate of the Earth (1982) and The Abolition (1984).

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