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2023 Arms Control Association Annual Meeting
Reducing Nuclear Threats in a Time of Peril
June 2, 2023 · National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

The world is facing unprecedented nuclear weapons-related challenges. As President Biden wrote in his message to ACA at last year’s annual meeting,“Today—perhaps more than any other time since the Cold War—we must work to reduce the risk of an arms race or nuclear escalation. In this time of intense geopolitical tension, arms control and nonproliferation diplomacy continues to be an essential part of safeguarding … global security."

Please join us June 2 via live webcast from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for our 2023 Annual Meeting. Our webcast will begin at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. 

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We are pleased to announce that President Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, will address our conference as our opening keynote speaker. 

Sullivan will detail the President's vision of heading off nuclear weapons competition, advancing arms control and nonproliferation measures, and reducing the risk of nuclear use. Sullivan's remarks follow the May 19-21 Summit of G-7 Leaders in Hiroshima, Japan, the site of the first atomic bombing.

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Our lunch hour keynote address will be delivered by Ambassador Alexander Kmentt, director of disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and president of the first meeting of the states-parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

In addition, our expert panels during the program will examine today's most critical security challenges, including:

  • Resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis.
  • Reinforcing the taboo against threats of nuclear use.
  • Preventing an arms race between the United States, Russia, and China.
  • Regulating the risks of artificial intelligence involvement in nuclear command and control.
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Journalists with an accredited media outlet are invited to request complimentary press access.

EVENT PROGRAM
*Subject to change

8:00 am Registration opens
9:00 am Welcome: Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director
9:10 am Keynote Address: Jake Sullivan
National Security Advisor to President Biden
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:30 am PANEL I: Preventing a Three-Way Nuclear Arms Race
  • Lynn Rusten, Nuclear Threat Initiative
  • Jon Wolfsthal, Center for a New American Security and Global Zero
  • Tong Zhao, Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton
  • Thomas Countryman, Arms Control Association, moderator
11:30 am Break for Lunch Service
12:00 pm Keynote Address: Ambassador Alexander Kmentt
Director of Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and President of the First Meeting of the States-Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
1:00 pm PANEL II: Reducing Nuclear Risks and Reinforcing the Taboos Against Nuclear Use and Threats
  • Rebecca Davis Gibbons, University of Southern Maine and co-chair of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group at the Harvard Project on Managing the Atom
  • Morton H. Halperin, former senior official on arms control and defense matters in the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations
  • Amy F. Woolf, Atlantic Council
  • Daryl G. Kimball, Arms Control Association, moderator
2:00 pm Coffee Break
2:15 pm PANEL III: The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Is There a Diplomatic Plan B?
  • Kelsey Davenport, Arms Control Association
  • Ali Vaez, International Crisis Group
  • Dylan Williams, J Street
  • Barbara Slavin, Stimson Center, moderator
3:20 pm PANEL IV: Risk and Regulation of AI in Nuclear Command and Control
  • Paul Dean, U.S. State Department
  • Chris Meserole, Brookings Institution
  • Helen Toner, Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology
  • Shannon Bugos, Arms Control Association, moderator
4:20 pm

Closing: Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director

 
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