9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks: New Perspectives, New Opportunities

James Leach, Trustee, The Century Foundation; U.S. House of Representatives (1973–2007); Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Filippo Formica, Director, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under Secretary General, U.N. Department of Disarmament Affairs (1998–2003) - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

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10:45 a.m.

Session 1: Looking to 2020: Proliferating threats, static regimes? - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime). Read a transcript of Session 1 here (PDF). Click here for video (QuickTime).

Michael Krepon, Co-founder and President Emeritus, Henry L. Stimson Center

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Christopher Chyba, Director, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Moderator: Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress

Participant Discussion - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Focus: What are the weapons threats from suspect “regimes” and from terrorists to the security of states and people? Is the international system dynamic enough to respond to them? Are the international mechanisms—NPT, IAEA, BWC and OPCW—in danger of unraveling, and why? What kind of world do we want in ten years and what do we do now to realize that vision?

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12:15 p.m.

Session 2: Expanding nuclear energy, preventing weapons proliferation: A porous wall? - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime). Read a transcript from Session 2 here. Click here for video (QuickTime).

Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, President of the 2005 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference

William Potter, Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Gustavo Zlauvinen, Director, United Nations Office, International Atomic Energy Agency

Moderator: Jeffrey Laurenti, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation

Participant Discussion

Focus: If nuclear energy is to play an increasing role in meeting world energy needs, how do we control the spread of technologies through which many more nations can acquire nuclear weapons capabilities? How can the guarantors of international security—from the IAEA to the U.N. Security Council—and vigilant coalitions of countries and multilateral groupings, most effectively handle states that threaten to cross the weapons line? How are states that linger outside the NPT best handled? How can the partnership between the United States and European Union on nonproliferation help forge a new international consensus on action to prevent proliferation, and how can the U.N. General Assembly nurture and sustain it?

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1:30 p.m. Lunch

Point/Counterpoint: A Nuclear-Weapons Free Iran - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime). Click here for video (QuickTime).

Read the Lunch Session transcript here (PDF).

Presiding: Richard C. Leone, President, The Century Foundation

Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Javad Zarif, Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations

Moderator: Carla Anne Robbins, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, the New York Times

3:00 p.m.

Session 3: Sustainability of nonproliferation in a two-tiered world

Hans Blix, Chair, International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Read Session 3 and 4 transcripts here (PDF).

Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under Secretary General, U.N. Department of Disarmament Affairs (1998–2003) - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Moderator: Janne Nolan, Professor and Senior Associate, The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh

Participant Discussion - Click here to listen to this segment (QuickTime).

Focus: Is the threat of nuclear proliferation so large that we can enforce nonproliferation rules on potential weapons holders while some states maintain, diversify, or enlarge nuclear arsenals? To what extent is effective nonproliferation policy dependent on effective nuclear disarmament? How can lawmakers in the largest nuclear-armed states begin to address concerns about those arsenals? Does the chemical weapons convention offer a model of sustainability for effective nonproliferation, potentially applicable also to nuclear weapons?

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4:30 p.m.

Session 4: Rebuilding a Durable Consensus. Click here for video (QuickTime). Click here for Closing Remarks video.

Moderator: Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress

5 p.m. Adjournment

The Century Foundation is grateful for the substantive contribution to this conference of Joseph Cirincione and the national security team of the Center for American Progress.