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<div>Plesae feel free to forward, as all are welcome. Best,</div>
<div>Amy</div>
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<div><font face="Optima" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>CIS STARR
FORUM<br>
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T C E N T E R F O R
I N T E R N A T I O N A L S T U D I E S<br>
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</font><font face="Optima" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>"IRAN,
NORTH KOREA AND THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE"<br>
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Thursday, November 9, 2006<br>
5:00 p.m.<br>
MIT's Bartos Theater<br>
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</b></font><font face="Optima" color="#000000"><b>---Can we live with
a nuclear Iran and North Korea? Will we have to?<br>
---Would nuclear arsenals in Iran and North Korea prompt nuclear arms
races in Asia, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf?<br>
---How is the post-Cold War "Second Nuclear Age" different from
the first?<br>
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* DAVID ALBRIGHT<br>
</b>Albright, a physicist, is President of the Institute for Science
and International Security. He has written numerous assessments of
secret nuclear weapons programs, and assisted the IAEA in the
mid-1990s in the analysis of Iraq's nuclear activities. In 1996, he
was the first non-governmental inspector of Iraq's nuclear
program.<br>
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<b>* BARRY POSEN<br>
</b>Director of the MIT Security Studies Program and Ford
International Professor of Political Science, Professor Posen is
author of the essay "We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran" (CIS Audits
of the Conventional Wisdom series, March 2006). Professor Posen is
also author of<i> Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear
Risks</i> and<i> The Sources of Military Doctrine</i>, and numerous
articles on international relations and US national security.<br>
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<b>* JIM WALSH<br>
</b>Dr. Walsh is a Research Associate at the MIT Security Studies
Program whose work in international security focuses on weapons of
mass destruction, terrorism, the Middle East and East Asia. Among his
current projects are two series of dialogues on nuclear issues, one
with representatives from North Korea and another with leading figures
in Iran. In July 2006, he testified before the US Senate on Iran's
nuclear ambitions. He is working on a book about Iran.<br>
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<b>* JOHN TIRMAN (moderator)<br>
</b>Dr. Tirman, Executive Director of MIT's Center for International
Studies, a political scientist, is author, or coauthor and editor, of
numerous books on international affairs, including<i> Spoils of War:
The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade</i> and<i> Multilateralism
Under Challenge: Power, International Order and Structural Change</i>.
He is a former executive director of the Winston Foundation for World
Peace, a foundation that funds work to prevent nuclear war and promote
non-violent resolution of conflict.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>MIT's Bartos Theater<br>
</b></font><font size="-3">Weisner Building / Media Lab (E15-070)<br>
20 Ames Street, Cambridge<br>
(near the Kendall Square T Stop on the Red Line)<br>
online map:<br>
<u>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=bartos&mapsearch=go<br>
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</u>starrforum@mit.edu<br>
<u>http://web.mit.edu/cis/starr.html<br>
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<div>Amy Tarr<br>
Director, Public Programs<br>
MIT Center for International Studies<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
292 Main Street, E38-206<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
Tel: 617.253.1965<br>
Fax: 617 452.3389<br>
http://web.mit.edu/cis/</div>
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