The past few years have not been good ones for the cause of halting and reversing the spread of the world’s deadliest weapons. As proliferation crises challenge the nuclear control regime, can nations find a better path? The Century Foundation will convene policy experts and practitioners for a major conference focused on the opportunities to reverse the erosion of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

What: Weapons Threats and International Security: Rebuilding an Unraveled Consensus

When: Monday, February 26, 2007, 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Where: Millennium U.N. Plaza Hotel, 1 U.N. Plaza (44th St. @ First Ave.), NYC

Highlights: A n exclusive conversation on the showdown over Iran’s nuclear program including Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations and Javad Zarif, Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations

Hans Blix, Chair, International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction, and chief UN weapons inspector for Iraq, on weaknesses in the existing system of national and international restraints

Jayantha Dhanapala and Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, who led the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conferences in 1995 (successful) and 2005 (stalemated) respectively, on rebuilding international consensus for resolute action against nuclear weapons

Other Featured Speakers Include:

James Leach, U.S. House of Representatives (1973-2007); Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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

Sergey Batsanov, former Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science

Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress

For complete conference agenda click here

RSVP: Laurie Ahlrich at ahlrich@tcf.org or (212) 452-7722.

This conference is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.