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<DIV><FONT face=Optima color=#000000 size=+1><B>CIS STARR
FORUM<BR></B></FONT><FONT face=Optima color=#000000 size=-2>M I
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>_________________________________________________________________<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Optima color=#000000 size=+1><B>"IRAN, NORTH KOREA AND THE SECOND NUCLEAR
AGE"<BR><BR>Thursday, November 9, 2006<BR>5:00 p.m.<BR>MIT's Bartos
Theater<BR><BR></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><BR>* 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><BR><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><BR><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><BR><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><BR><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
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