[Editors] CIS Starr Forum this Thursday, Nov. 9

[Amy Tarr]

Plesae feel free to forward, as all are welcome. Best,
Amy


CIS STARR FORUM
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
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"IRAN, NORTH KOREA AND THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE"

Thursday, November 9, 2006
5:00 p.m.
MIT's Bartos Theater

---Can we live with a nuclear Iran and North Korea? Will we have to?
---Would nuclear arsenals in Iran and North Korea prompt nuclear arms 
races in Asia, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf?
---How is the post-Cold War "Second Nuclear Age" different from the first?

* DAVID ALBRIGHT
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.

* BARRY POSEN
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 Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks 
and The Sources of Military Doctrine, and numerous articles on 
international relations and US national security.

* JIM WALSH
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.

* JOHN TIRMAN (moderator)
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 Spoils of War: The 
Human Cost of America's Arms Trade and Multilateralism Under 
Challenge: Power, International Order and Structural Change. 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.

MIT's Bartos Theater
Weisner Building / Media Lab (E15-070)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(near the Kendall Square T Stop on the Red Line)
online map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=bartos&mapsearch=go

starrforum at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/cis/starr.html


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Amy Tarr
Director, Public Programs
MIT Center for International Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
292 Main Street, E38-206
Cambridge, MA  02139
Tel: 617.253.1965
Fax: 617 452.3389
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