IGCC Teaching Seminar Series
Strategic Weapons Proliferation
August 20–23, 1998
UC San Diego
The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), in conjunction with The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) based in Washington DC, announce an intensive seminar for UC, Cal State and California community college faculty and UC Ph.D. students on the problems of strategic weapons proliferation. Since the end of the Cold War, the proliferation of weapons and weapons technology has continued to present a challenging problem to the international community. Yet arms control has been less in the headlines and some say, less on the public policy agenda after the Cold War. How should we teach about strategic weapons proliferation today? Current and former U.S. government officials, representatives of NGOs, and professors from the University of California and elsewhere will discuss: the issues of safeguarding nuclear weapons technology and materials, the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles, the role of terrorism, and the economics of proliferation. Various approaches to teaching strategic weapons proliferation will be emphasized. The three-day teaching seminar will also include a simulation exercise and syllabus workshop.
Agenda and Speakers
Thursday, August 20, 1998
Introductions and Co-Chair Minilecture: Why
This Seminar on Strategic Weapons Proliferation?
Speakers: Ronald Bee, Senior Analyst, IGCC and Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, NPEC
Friday, August 21, 1998
Nuclear Technology and Proliferation/Nuclear Safeguards,
Speaker: Thomas Cochran, Natural Resources Defense Council;
Chemical Weapons
and Biological Weapons Technologies and Controls, Speaker: Mike Fitzgibbon, DoD;
Superterrorism, Speakers: David Rapoport, UCLA and Brian Jenkins, formerly at
RAND
Saturday, August 22, 1998
Nonproliferation History: Can We Win?, Speaker:
Henry Sokolski, NPEC
Missile Technology and Proliferation, Speaker: Richard
Speier, Former Official, DoD Office of Nonproliferation;
The Economics of Proliferation, Speaker: Dr. Brian Chow, RAND Corporation;
Competitive Strategies and Proliferation Workshop, Speaker: Col. David Andre,
Former Pentagon Official;
Sunday, August 23, 1998
Curriculum/Syllabus Development Workshop
Is there a Great Debate over Proliferation?
Speakers: Dr. Kenneth Waltz, UC Berkeley, Dr. Peter Feaver, Duke University,
and Discussant: Michael
Intriligator, UCLA; Wrap-up Closing Key Note Speaker: Dr. David Kay,
SAIC and former IAEA Inspector, "Iraq: The Nonproliferation Lessons"
Logistics
The teaching seminar will be hosted by IGCC and NPEC on the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, CA. (Approximately 25 minutes by car from the San Diego airport.) The seminar will begin with a buffet dinner at 6 p.m., Thursday, August 20 and conclude after lunch Sunday, August 23, at approximately 1:30 p.m. Lodging will be provided on the UCSD campus for accepted participants for the nights of August 20, 21st, and 22nd and meals will be provided during the seminar. Travel expenses within California for accepted participants will be reimbursed. (Limitations will apply.) Participants are expected to attend all sessions of the teaching seminar. |
