EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
April 30, 2008: Matthew Bunn testified to the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee.
April 29, 2008: Matthew Kroenig presented a seminar entitled "Exporting the Bomb: Why States Provide Sensitive Nuclear Assistance" to the Program on International Security Policy Workshop at The Harris School at the University of Chicago.
April 2, 2008: Matthew Bunn testified to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the United States Senate about "The Risk Of Nuclear Terrorism -- And Next Steps To Reduce The Danger"
- Dr. Bunn's presentation is available here.
March 11, 2008: Kayhan Barzegar presented "Iran-U.S. Relations, in Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities" at a Weatherhead Center U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar.
- Additional information about the seminar is available here.
February 28-29, 2008: Matthew Bunn presented "Allocation of Risk in Building Capital-Intensive Electricity Generation: What Role for Government?" to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, in Boulder, Colorado.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
February 21-22, 2008: Matthew Bunn presented "What Do We Mean by Zero? Strategic Implications of Different Approaches to the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons," at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization conference on "Nuclear Weapons: The Greatest Peril to Civilization," in New Haven, Conn.
February 1, 2008: Matthew Bunn presented "Key Factors Affecting the Future of Nuclear Energy," to the Belfer Center Working Group on the Future of Nuclear Energy, in Cambridge, Mass.
December 11, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Nuclear Terrorism: How Can Intelligence Best Contribute to Reducing the Risk?" to the Intelligence Science Board Quarterly Meeting, McLean, Virginia.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
December 3, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Lessons From Nonproliferation Crises: A New Nuclear Order," as his acceptance speech after being awarded the Hans Bethe Award by the Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC.
November 29 and 30, 2007: Matthew Bunn participated in the Stanley Foundation's Workshop and Conference entitled "Reconciling the US and the World: Possibilities for Bipartisan Consensus."
- Information about the event can be read on the Stanley Foundation Website.
November 27, 2007: Kayhan Barzegar presented "Iran's Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf Region" for the Weatherhead Center Middle East Seminar Series.
- Details about the event are available here.
November 20, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "proliferation-Resistance (and Terror-Resistance) of Nuclear Energy Systems at MIT for the "Systems Analysis of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle" course.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
November 19, 2007: MTA Fellows Matthew Kroenig and Matthew Fuhrmann establish a Working Group on Quantitative Approaches to Understanding Nuclear Nonproliferation.
- Learn more about the Working Group on Quantitative Approaches to Understanding Nuclear Proliferation
November 15, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Constraining Iran's Nuclear Program: Assessing Options and Risks," to staff members at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
November 14, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee On Energy And Natural Resources on the "Risks of GNEP's Focus on Near-Term Reprocessing."
- Bunn's testimony is available here.
November 13, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Export Controls at MIT for the "Systems Analysis of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle" course.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
November 13, 2007: Kayhan Barzegar presented "Iran's Role in the Post 9/11 Middle East" Middle East Policy Forum at The Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
October 24, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Securing Nuclear Stockpiles Worldwide," to "Reykjavik Revisted: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons," Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, Calif.
October 21-23, 2007: Jishe Fan presented "Seeking the Best or the Second Best: Lessons Learned from Six Party Talks," at the Third Trilateral Meeting on Nuclear Stability and Nonproliferation Conference at King's College London Centre for Science & Security Studies.
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October 17, 2007: Martin Malin presented a lecture entitled "Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons and the Future of the Middle East," to the Newton Lifetime Learning Program in Newton, Mass.
October 4, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Securing the Bomb 2007: Next Steps to Keep Nuclear Weapons and Materials Out of Terrorist Hands," as a congressional staff briefing, at the AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy, Washington DC.
September 2007: Matthew Bunn participated in U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences meeting on the implementation of an international civilian nuclear fuel cycle.
- A summary of the project, the "Internationalization of the Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle" is available here.
September 4, 2007: Andrew Brown presented a public lecture at University College Dublin.
- Brown presented "Bernal in History," a presentation, based on his book on J.D. Bernal, J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science
August 2007: Matthew Kroenig presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting.
- Kroenig presented "Importing the Bomb: Sensitive Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation."
July 2007: MTA Staff and Fellows Attended the Annual Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Conference
- Matthew Bunn and Tom Bielefeld presented their paper "Reducing Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Threats." This paper describes nuclear and radiological terrorism threats, analyzes the actions taken so far to address these threats, and recommends further actions going forward.
- Hui Zhang presented his paper "Off-Site Air Sampling Analysis And North Korean Nuclear Test." Zhang examines how to use the activity ratios of xenon isotopes to distinguish a test from a plutonium-bomb and a HEU bomb.
- Zhang also presented his paper "North Korea's Oct. 9 Nuclear Test: Successful or Failed?".
June 27 and 28 2007: MTA Hosted a Workshop about Decommissioning North Korea's Nuclear Facilities.
- Bunn and Zhang will prepare a report and brief congress about these issues in the fall of 2007. These briefings will be co-sponsored by the National Committee on North Korea.
June 26, 2007: Matthew Bunn and Joseph Cirincione held a discussion with Mark Hibbs entitled "The Next Five Nuclear Stories" as the closing plenary session at the Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference, in Washington, D.C..
June 18, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: The Nuclear Terrorism Convention and Other Urgently Needed Steps," to the United Nations Panel on the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, New York, NY.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
May 30-31, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Setting Priorities: Assessing the Global Risk Nuclear Theft," at the INMM Workshop on Nuclear Security Risk Management, Washington DC.
- Bunn's presentation is available here.
April 16, 2007: Matthew Bunn presented "Repairing the Nonproliferation Regime: A New Nuclear Order," as his acceptance speech after being awarded the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award at the American Physical Society April Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida.
