On March 14th, Iran held parliamentary elections for the 290-seat, Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami, the Islamic Consultative Assembly.
BASIC joined with The US Institute of Peace (USIP), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to co-sponsor a March 6 debrief on the recent meeting of the Hoover Group
in Oslo. Ambassador Max Kampelman, Ambassador James Goodby, and Dr George Perkovich, all participants in the Oslo meeting, discussed the means of revitalizing the international disarmament movement.
BASIC joined with the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC to jointly sponsor a debrief on the recent meeting on nuclear disarmament in Oslo, Norway.
Ambassadors Max Kampelman and James Goodby (U.S.-ret.) and Dr. George Perkovich discussed the means of revitalizing the international disarmament movement.
Follow this link to USIP for a summary and audio recordings of the event:
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On their way back from the international conference on nuclear disarmament in Oslo, Norway, George Shultz and Sam Nunn addressed a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation, clerked by BASIC.
BASIC co-sponsored a briefing with the United States Institute of Peace and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on March 6, hosted by USIP.
Event Title: A world without nuclear weapons: the international dimension
Panelists: Ambassador Max Kampelman, of Counsel, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Ambassador James Goodby, Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution
Some eight years into the 21st century, the threats to international security posed by the numbers, deployments and spread of nuclear weapons remain all too ominous. Disconcertingly, the possibility of a surprise attack – perhaps a tragic miscalculation or a criminal action – is an ongoing reality some six decades into the nuclear age.
George Shultz and Sam Nunn are addressing the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG, clerked by BASIC) in London on Thursday after the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament that is underway now in Oslo, Norway.
From the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament website:
The Government of Norway, in cooperation with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Hoover Institution, is convening an international conference on Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, in Oslo 26-27 February 2008.