Sarwar Kashmeri, Senior Fellow of the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council, speaks about NATO partnerships with Russia and other countries and NATO’s engagement in the Middle East and North Africa at the Shadow NATO Summit hosted by BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012.
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Kurt Volker at the BASIC Shadow NATO Summit
Ambassador Kurt Volker, Managing Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations (SAIS), speaks about NATO partnerships with Russia and other countries and NATO’s engagement in the Middle East and North Africa at the Shadow NATO Summit hosted by BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012.
Anita Friedt at the BASIC Shadow NATO Summit III
Anita Friedt, Director of the Office of Policy and Regional Affairs at the US State Department, speaks about the NATO Deterrence and Defence Posture Review at the Shadow NATO Summit organized by BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012.
Paul Ingram at the BASIC Shadow NATO Summit III
Paul Ingram, executive director of BASIC, speaks about the NATO Deterrence and Defence Posture Review at the Shadow NATO Summit organized by BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012.
Steven Pifer at the Shadow NATO Summit III
Amb Steven Pifer, Director of the Arms Control Initiative at the Brookings Institution, speaks about the NATO Deterrence and Defence Posture Review at the Shadow NATO Summit organized by BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012.
Walter Slocombe at the NATO Shadow Summit III
Walter Slocombe, former US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, speaks about the NATO Deterrence and Defence Posture Review at the Shadow NATO Summit organized by BASIC, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Elliott School of International Affairs, NATO Watch, and Strategy International in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15, 2012.
International Cooperation in Nuclear Security
Commenting on the Nuclear Security Summit II, Paul Ingram told Uranium Investing News: “Obama’s creation of an approach that pulls states into common objectives on this agenda is no small feat given the weeks of diplomatic wrangling and finger pointing that characterizes the diplomacy around the more established nuclear non-proliferation treaty process. However, such progress was incremental, and fell way short of what would be needed to meaningfully tackle threats to nuclear security.”
Scrapping Trident ‘premature’
Speaking on the Today program on March 5th, Sir Menzies Campbell, co-chair of BASIC's Trident Commission, describes the BASIC Trident Commission as looking at all the realistic options for Britain’s nuclear deterrent, in the context of report released from the Liberal policy think tank Centre Forum.