[LCM Events] STARR FORUM Nov. 9: Iran, North Korea and the Second Nuclear Age

[Ann Abbondante]

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.

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