A nuclear week

Congress in recess until the 12th.

QUESTIONING OBAMA’S NUCLEAR AGENDA. 4/6, 10:00am-Noon, Washington, DC. Sponsors: AEI, Heritage. Speakers: Bruce Klingner, Heritage; Lisa Curtis, Heritage; Amb. Kurt Volker, Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO; Thomas Donnelly, Director, Center for Defense Studies, AEI; Tom Scheber, Vice President, National Institute for Public Policy; Stephen Rademaker, Senior Counsel, BGR Group. 

NEW START: PROVISIONS AND PROSPECTS FOR RATIFICATION OF THE NEW U.S.-RUSSIAN STRATEGIC ARMS TREATY. 4/7, 10:00-11:30am, Washington, DC. Sponsors: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monetary Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Speakers: Dr. Nikolai Sokov, MIIS; Miles Pomper, CNS. 

2010 CSIS PROJECT ON NUCLEAR ISSUES (PONI) SPRING CONFERENCE. 4/8-9, 8:00am-6:00pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Deepti Choubey, Deputy Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Sanhita Ambast, MALD Candidate, Tufts, LLM Candidate, Harvard; Natalia V. Saraeva, Georgetown; Gareth Stevens, Nuclear and Stratefic Deterrent Office, British Defense Staff, British Embassy; Sebastian Miraglia, Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies; Rizwan Ladha, M.A. Candidate, Tufts; Saurabh Dutta Chowdhury, M.A. Candidate, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Philp Johnson, Senior Research Fellow, M.A. Candidate, Georgetown; Major Gn. Don Alston, Assistant Chieg of Staff, Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration; Nikita Perfilyeb, Fulbright Scholar, M.A. Candidate, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Tong Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sico van der Meer, Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute of International Relations; Togzhan Kassenova, Senior Research Associate, Center for International Trade and Security; James Cooley, Physicist, X-4 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

NONPROLIFERATION AND THE NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY. 4/8, 9:00-10:30am, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: John P. Banks, Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy; Michael Moodie, Executive Editor, WMD Insights; Lawrence Scheinman, Distinguished Professor, Center for Non-Proliferation Studies; Sharon Squassoni, Director, Proliferation Prevention Program, CSIS.  

2010 PUBLIC POLICY AND NUCLEAR THREATS. 4/9, 9:00am, Washington, DC. Sponsor: University of California Washington Center. Speakers: Robert Brown, Temple University; Rachel Whitlark, GWU; Amir Stepak, GWU; Shaheen Dewji, Georgia Tech; Jacqueline Shire, Senior Analyst, Institute for Science and International Security; Susan Burk, State Department.