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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 16, 2014
Jeremiah Granden
Summary Sentence:
Members of the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE) attended the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations Office in New York on May 5-May 7, 2014.
Full Summary:
Members of the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE) attended the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations Office in New York on May 5-May 7, 2014.
Stulberg at UNMembers of the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE) attended the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations Office in New York on May 5-May 7, 2014. Sponsored by successive grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, POSSE is building a global network of leading and emerging scholars of nuclear and international security. POSSE is co-directed by Professor Adam N. Stulberg (INTA/CISTP) and Professor William C. Potter (James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies).
The program brings together promising advanced graduate students and young professors from the United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and France to analyze alternative analytical frameworks and methodologies for re-thinking the requirements for strategic stability amid deep reduction in standing nuclear arsenals across different regions. It also seeks to engage academics in the policy debate over the wisdom and modalities of pursuing visions and steps towards deep reductions, including nuclear disarmament.
POSSE members attended preparatory UN deliberations on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT that will undergo a full review in 2015. Entered into force in 1970, the purpose of the NPT is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to further the goal of nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament, and to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Also, POSSE members had the opportunity to witness United Nations Security Council proceedings on Resolution 1540 that obliges States to refrain from supporting non-state actor acquisition, transport, and use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and delivery systems.
POSSE also hosted working lunch attended by Ambassador Alexander Kmett - Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation for the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs; Tariq Rauf – Director of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and Patricia Lewis – Research Director for International Security at Chatham House. POSSE members also sat in on multiple NGO-sponsored side events on nuclear security attendant to the NPT PrepCom.
Substantive and general commentary on the event can be accessed via the POSSE Twitter feed from May 5-May 7 2014 at https://twitter.com/POSSE2016
