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Please join us next Wednesday, November 7th, for an <b>STS BROWN BAG
LUNCH TALK <br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#0000FF"><i>Understanding
Successful Proliferators:</b> <b>How the most undeveloped nations get the
world's most dangerous weapons</b> <b> </b> <br><br>
</i></font><font size=4><b>Speaker: Geoff Forden, MIT<br><br>
</font>12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191<br><br>
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Dr. Forden has been at MIT since 2000 where his research includes the
analysis of Russian and Chinese space systems as well as trying to
understand how proliferators acquire the know-how and industrial
infrastructure to produce weapons of mass destruction. In
2002-2003, Dr. Forden spent a year on leave from MIT serving as the first
Chief of Multidiscipline Analysis Section for UNMOVIC, the UN agency
responsible for verifying and monitoring the dismantlement of Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction. Previous to coming to MIT, he was a
strategic weapons analyst in the National Security Division of the
Congressional Budget Office after having worked at a number of
international particle accelerator centers.<br><br>
<u>Abstract:<br>
</u>The world is at the brink of a sea change in the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction. Twenty years ago, supply-side regimes
like the Nuclear Suppliers Group could fairly effectively slow down or
even stop the spread of nuclear weapons by tightening up the export
controls of a small group of countries. Today, as the A. Q. Khan
network has shown, the necessary industrial base is spreading around the
world. This talk will examine a number of cases where proliferators
were successfuland several where they were notin getting nuclear,
chemical, and biological weapons was well as ballistic missiles.
Some of the factors that made the difference between successful
proliferation and failure will be discussed. Future
nonproliferation regimes can then use those facts to limit the spread of
WMD.<br><br>
Feel free to bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.<br>
For more information, 617-452-2390<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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