Overview
This year's Public Policy and Nuclear
Threats winter
seminar takes place in Washington, D.C., the heart of the policy world and
follows up on successful student-led conferences at UC Berkeley (2005) and
UCLA (2006). Much of
this year's discussion
will focus on the recent nuclear tests of the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea as a case study. Panel discussion topics include how to prevent
emerging nuclear states from
transferring nuclear materials to other states or to terrorists and an
exploration of an international nuclear forensics regime as a model for cooperative
deterrence.
Public Policy and Nuclear Threats is funded
by the National Science Foundation's Integrative
Graduate Education Research
and
Traineeship (IGERT) program.
The
fellows and
associates
are young nuclear experts trained on both the technical and social science/policy
sides. They come from a diverse set of academic disciplines in the physical
and social sciences on the University of California campuses and range from
those who have recently entered graduate school to those who have completed
their graduate work and moved on to industry and academia.
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