Experts shared their views on what the next U.S. administration should do to manage the urgent threat from nuclear weapons and how it could take advantage of transatlantic relationships. The event was co-sponsored by BASIC and Women in International Security, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
Please see the attached document (PDF) for a summary.
Sitting down before the start of the afternoon workshop on Getting to Zero yesterday I have to admit to being a little intimidated. I was to open before Michael Krepon, someone highly involved in the issue for many years and whose work I had read a great deal of.
Event hosted by the EastWest Institute in cooperation with BASIC and other NGOs, at the United Nations in New York.
For summaries and a report on the event, follow this link to EWI\’s website:
In this issue: Commitments to disarmament and arms control ; Country reports ; Missile defense ; etc
India and Iran's strategic relationship has weakened, and Iran, a NPT signatory, is aggrieved by the double standards that are apply to it and to India under the recent US–India nuclear deal.
The East-West Institute, in cooperation with BASIC, CNS, NGOCDPS, the Global Security Institute, and other organizations, will host a conference that will include UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Henry Kissinger, Hans Blix and other international experts.