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March 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 COMPLEX

March 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 University

Conference Overview

Frank von Hippel
Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

9:30-11:00 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 Energy

U.S. Assistance to Russia

William Taylor
Coordinator of United States Assistance to the New Independent States, U.S. Department of State

The Nuclear Cities Initiative and Its Synergism with Other DOE Efforts

Ernest J. Moniz
Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Energy

11:00-11:15 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 Physics

Sarov (Arzamas-16)

Vassili P. Neznamov
First Deputy Director, All-Russia Institute of Experimental Physics; and

Yury 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 Technology

1:00-2:30 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 University

The Nuclear Cities Initiative

Rose Gottemoeller
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security, U.S. Department of Energy

The Moscow International Science & Technology Center

Steven Aoki
Director, Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction, U.S. Department of State

4:00-4:15 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 Energy

Accelerated Conversion Proposal for Sarov

Siegfried Hecker
Former Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Congressional Interest and Concern for the Nuclear Cities

Peter Lyons
Science Advisor to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici

6:30 PM RECEPTION, Prospect House

7:30 PM DINNER, Prospect House

After-Dinner Speaker

Andrei Kortunov
President, Moscow Public Science Foundation

WEDNESDAY, 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 Energy

Down-Sizing of Russia's Nuclear-Weapons Production Infrastructure

Oleg Bukharin
Research Staff, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies, Princeton University

Opportunities from Nuclear Disarmament

Thomas Neff
Research Affiliate, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:15-10:30 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 Institute

Business

Jana Fankhauser
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

David Bernstein
Research Associate, Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University

Energy Efficiency

Meredydd Evans
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
European Nuclear Cities Initiative

Maurizio Martellini
Secretary General, Laudau Network Coordination Center

12:00-1:30 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 University

Vladimir Rybachenkov
Councilor, Department for Security, Affairs and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Russian Federation

Ken Luongo
Executive Director, RANSAC

Discussion