Videos
Video recordings of notable speakers, presentations, interviews, and discussions.
Posted: November 13, 2009
Seminar
Prospects for a START Replacement Treaty: Ambassador Linton Brooks
- Ambassador Linton Brooks talks about the prospects for a START replacement treaty, on October 15, 2009.
Posted: October 21, 2009
Seminar
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
- David Hoffman, Assistant Managing Editor for Foreign News at The Washington Post, on October 13, 2009.
Posted: October 9, 2009
Seminar
Part 1: James Goodby U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Negotiations
· Also watch Part 2
- On September 24, 2009, Ambassador James Goodby, Hoover Institution, Stanford University is a guest lecturer at the "U.S.-Russian START Plus Arms Control Simulation" at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ambassador Goodby talks about his involvement with various U.S.-Russian nuclear negotiations, including the Start I treaty between 1981 and 1983, and the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. The class, taught by Dr. William Potter, CNS Director, is a simulation of U.S.-Russian strategic arms reduction talks. Students assume the role of U.S. and Russian arms control officials in charge of negotiating a follow-up accord to the current START Treaty which will expire in December 2009.
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Seminar
Independent Task Force Report on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
- On September 29, 2009, Dr. Charles Ferguson, Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, presents findings and recommendations of an independent study sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations on U.S. nuclear weapons policy.
Posted: September 30, 2009
Panel Discussion
Book Launch: International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
· Watch the Panelists
- On September 16, 2009, CNS and the Georgetown University Institute for International Law and Politics, as part of their joint Project on Nonproliferation Policy and Law, hosted a book launch event for "International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction." (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Posted: September 28, 2009
Interview
Interview with the CTBTO's Tibor Tóth
· Watch the Interview
- Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in an interview by Kaegan McGrath, conducted at the United Nation Headquarters in New York, 25 September 2009.
Posted: September 24, 2009
Panel Discussion
H1N1 Panel: Where are we with Pandemic Influenza?
· Watch the Panelists
- Videos of panelists discussing recommendations for dealing with the 2009-10 influenza season.
Posted: September 9, 2009
Seminar
About U.S. - Russian Relations: A Conversation with Sergei Kislyak
· Watch the Seminar [1:16]
- Dr. William Potter, director of CNS talks with the ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, about U.S.-Russian relations, including prospects for nuclear arms control, NATO expansion, and the Iranian nuclear program.
Posted: August 31, 2009
Seminar
Prospects for Reducing U.S. and Russian Non Strategic Nuclear Weapons
· Watch the Seminar [23 min]
· Watch the Q&A Session [22 min]
- Miles Pomper, Senior Research Associate.
Posted: August 12, 2009
Seminar
Gernot Erler on Nuclear Policy, CNS Study
· Watch the Presentation [40 min]
· Watch the Q&A Session [40 min]
- At a CNS seminar, German Federal Foreign Office Minister of State, Gernot Erler reviewed Germany's disarmament and nonproliferation policies and introduced a major study by CNS entitled Four Emerging Issues in Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation: Opportunities for German Leadership.
Posted: July 10, 2009
Interview
President Obama is in Front of His Advisors
· Watch the Interview [4 min, nhk.or.jp]
- William Potter, CNS Director, was interviewed on the website "No More Hibakusha" by NHK.
Posted: July 6, 2009
Interview
Only Presidents Can Push START Through
· Watch the Interview [12 min, RussiaToday.com]
- William Potter, CNS Director, was interviewed on Russia Today.
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Interview
Obama is Serious About Disarmament
· Watch the Interview [5 min]
- William Potter, CNS Director, was interviewed on Russia Today.
Posted: June 22, 2009
Seminar
Asia Pacific Regional Nuclear Fuel Cycle Approach
· Watch the Seminar [1:10]
- University of Tokyo Professors Jor-Shan Choi and Yusuke Kuno talk about an Asia Pacific regional approach for a future nuclear fuel cycle for civilian use.
Posted: June 18, 2009
Seminar
Role of Infrasound Detection in CTBT Verification
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour]
- Bharath Gopalaswamy, Postdoctoral Associate, Peace Studies Program Cornell University.
Updated: June 8, 2009
Luncheon Briefing
Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour, 17 min]
- Potential roadblocks to success and how nuclear weapons fit into their national grand strategies.
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Panel Discussion
Legal and Policy Implications of Ambiguous Rocket Launches
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour]
· Watch the Q&A Session [35 min]
- Learning from the North Korean case, panelists explore the rights and responsibilities of launching and overflown states.
Posted: May 27, 2009
Seminar
Better Safe than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour]
- Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, talks about his most recent book: Better Safe than Sorry: the Ironies of Living with the Bomb and why there has not been another mushroom cloud since 1945.
Posted: May 21, 2009
Panel Discussion
Attribution: Post-Nuclear Event
· Watch multiple videos
- What are the ramifications of a nuclear attack, such as a detonation by terrorists in an urban center? How can first responders and local authorities best react? How can the "nuclear signature" of such an attack be identified and traced?
Posted: May 18, 2009
INTERVIEW
Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
· Watch the Interview [8 min, npt-tv.net]
- An overview of NATO's nuclear sharing agreements, historical overview, a look at their role today and if that could change.
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INTERVIEW
US Congress & CTBT Ratification
· Watch the Interview [10 min, npt-tv.net]
- Overview of the present situation in the US Congress and how it affects the chances and approaches to ratifying the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty.
Posted: April 17, 2009
SEMINAR
The Future of US-Russian Arms Control
· Watch the Seminar [45 min]
· Watch the Q&A Session [1 hour]
- Speaker Dr. Alexander Pikayev Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russia.
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SEMINAR
Verifying the CTBT
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour]
· Watch the Q&A Session [20 min]
· View Scientific American article [PDF]
- Using seismological methods to study nuclear weapons test explosions and their implications for the scientific and arms control worlds.
Posted: April 10, 2009
SEMINAR
International Security Developments in Central Asia
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour]
· Watch the Q&A Session [45 min]
- Speaker Ambassador Erlan A. Idrissov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States (and former Kazakh Foreign Minister).
Posted: April 6, 2009
SEMINAR
A Political History of Nuclear Weapons, 1938-2008
· Watch the Seminar [1 hour]
· Watch the Q&A Session [30 min]
- Thomas C. Reed, co-author of recently published The Nuclear Express, Former Secretary of the Air Force, spoke at the CNS Center on March 31, 2009.
Updated: April 3, 2009
Seminar
Nonproliferation Review Special Luncheon Briefing
· Watch the Introduction [44 min]
· Watch Ward Wilson [22 min]
· Watch Nathan Pyles [14 min]
· Watch Grégoire Mallard [12 min]
· Watch Russell Leslie [11 min]
· Watch the Q&A Session [28 min]
- Event page includes videos, photos, remarks, essays, and presentations.
Posted: March 23, 2009
PANEL DISCUSSION
Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Clearing the Legal Hurdles
· View the Introduction [11 min]
· View Sharon Squassoni [15 min]
· View Patricia Metz [11 min]
· View Omer Brown [12 min]
· View Henry Sokolski [23 min]
· View the Q&A Session [22 min]
- Event page includes videos, remarks, and presentations.
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As Middle Eastern nations from North Africa to the Persian Gulf look increasingly to nuclear power to meet their energy needs, nuclear reactor suppliers will be seeking to ensure that purchasing states have developed effective safety, environmental, and security regulatory frameworks to manage nuclear power projects, including measures to protect vendors from liability in the event of a nuclear accident.
Posted: March 9, 2009
SEMINAR
Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities
View the Seminar [1 hour]
View the Q&A Session [35 min]
- Held: March 6, 2009
- Stephen Schwartz, Editor of The Nonproliferation Review presents a Carnegie Endowment report on how much money the U.S. spends on everything related to nuclear weapons.
Posted: February 18, 2009
SEMINAR
Consolidation of Fissile Materials in Russia's Nuclear Complex
[Additional Video: Q&A session]
- Feb 10 [48 min; Q&A 38 min]
- Pavel Podvig's presentation is based on work done for the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) [fissilematerials.org].
- Related pages:
Nuclear topics,
Russia topics,
CNS Events
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The Design of the NPT
[Additional Video: Q&A session]
- Jan 27 [52 min; Q&A 46 min]
- Dane Swango, Predoctoral Fellow at CISAC Stanford, PhD Candidate at UCLA, discusses the goals, design, implementation, and limitations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
- Related pages:
NPT Resource Page,
NPT topic,
Treaties/Regimes topic,
CNS Events
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Taiwan's Nuclear Option? Security Imperative and Normative Transformation?
[Additional Video: Q&A session]
- Dec 23 [1 hr 11 min; Q&A 15 min]
- Dr. Vincent Wei-cheng Wang discusses scenarios under which Taiwan would decide to develop nuclear weapons.
- Related pages:
Nuclear,
East Asia,
CNS Events
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Destruction of Smallpox Virus Stocks?
[Additional Video: Q&A session]
- Dec 5 [1 hr; Q&A 25 min]
- Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker on the ongoing debate over the destruction of laboratory stocks of the smallpox virus after the disease was eradicated over 30 years ago.
- Related pages:
Chem/Bio,
Jonathan B. Tucker,
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox,
CNS Events
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At Peace With Nuclear Expansion: Nonproliferation Imperative
[Additional Video: Q&A session]
- November 26, 2008 [1 hr; Q&A 35 min; YouTube.com]
- Dr. Raymond Juzaitis, head of the Nuclear Engineering Department at Texas A&M University talks about the world nuclear "renaissance" and the nonproliferation challenges of countries' growing infrastructure for nuclear fuel cycle at a luncheon seminar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He highlights the need for proliferation resistant fuel cycle, nuclear materials awareness, and strengthening the scope and effectiveness of safeguards.
- Related pages:
Nuclear,
CNS Events
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Four Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, H-bomb, Deterrence and Usefulness
- November 7, 2008 [49 minutes; YouTube.com]
- Ward Wilson, grand prize winner of the 2008 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest talks about a new security paradigm at a CNS luncheon seminar. He argues that since nuclear deterrence relies on the threat of city destruction and city destruction is an ineffective way to wage war, he calls the efficacy of nuclear deterrence into question.
- Related pages:
Contest Winners Luncheon Briefing,
2009 Upcoming NPR Essay Contest,
Nuclear,
Treaties,
CNS Events
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Evidence from Imagery: The Iran and Syrian Nuclear Programs
[Additional Video: Q&A session]
- November 6, 2008 [1 hr; Q&A 30 min; YouTube.com]
- Speaker: Dr. Frank Pabian
In this age of increasing "Global Transparency",
commercial satellite imagery has now made it possible for anyone to remote peer over the fence and view what heretofore had been otherwise impossible...clandestine nuclear facilities (most significantly, those capable of producing fissile suitable for use in nuclear weapons). The synergistic combination of readily available tools: personal computers, the internet, three-dimensional virtual globe visualization applications such as Google Earth, and high resolution commercial satellite imagery has gone beyond what anyone could have imaged just a few years ago. The down-side of all this is that those who want to keep their clandestine nuclear facilities and associated activities from being either detected, identified, and/or monitored, are becoming more adept in their use of camouflage, concealment, and deception.
- Related pages:
Nuclear,
Iran,
Mideast,
CNS Events
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The Global Nuclear Future, Realities and Opportunities
- October 24, 2008 [44 minutes; YouTube.com]
- Thomas L. Sanders, Vice President/President Elect of the American Nuclear Society discusses energy future from an American perspective at a CNS lunchtime seminar. According to him, energy availability is directly tied to national economic health and the U.S. must change its energy posture to sustain and grow its prosperity.
- Related pages:
Nuclear,
Americas,
CNS Events
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Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Reaching Global Consensus
- September 15, 2008 [1 hour; YouTube.com]
- Ambassador Richard Butler, former head of UNSCOM and Australian Ambassador to the UN.
- Related pages:
Nuclear,
CNS Events
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Symposium on Nuclear Nonproliferation, featuring Dan Rather
- April 16, 2008 [81 minutes; www.rowan.edu]
- The full video of a panel discussion, which included William Potter, is now available through the Rowan University website.
- Related pages:
William Potter,
Nuclear,
CNS Events
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Academic Spotlight: IP531 Arms Control Simulation
- April 11, 2008 [10 minutes; YouTube.com]
- A film made by CNS/IONP about Jean Du Preez' Arms Control Simulation course taught in the autumn of 2007 at the Monterey Institute in California.
- Related pages:
IP531 course description,
Jean Du Preez,
IONP
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CNS Lectures: Cruise Missile Proliferation, Dennis Gormley
- April 10, 2008 [1 hr; YouTube.com]
- Missile Contagion: Cruise Missile Proliferation and the Threat to International Security. Seminar featuring Dennis Gormley, Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Washington, D.C. Office.
- Related pages:
Missile Contagion,
Dennis M. Gormley,
Missile
CNS Events
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