Agenda

Sixth ISODARCO-Beijing Seminar on Arms Control

SHANGHAI, CHINA — 29-31 OCTOBER 1998

 

Overview

Participants

Papers

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ISODARCO AGENDA

Below is the agenda for the Sixth ISODARCO-Beijing Seminar on Arms Control. The agenda lists session participants and provides links to selected papers presented at the meeting. The papers are provided in pdf format in order to retain their original presentation appearance.

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October 29, Thursday

Morning

Chair:

TIAN Dongfeng

Session 1: Opening Addresses

• HU Side, President, CAEP

 

• Alessandro PASCOLINI, Vice President of Isodarco

 

• ZHANG Biren, Vice President, CICIR

 

• YANG Fujia, President, Fudan University

Session 2: Plenary: Technologies in Arms Control

• Multilateral On-going Monitoring and Verification (OMV) of Compliance: Nurturing Cost-Effectiveness (Frank Ronald CLEMINSON)
• Integrated Demonstration of Material Protection, Control, and Accountability (Willie Sin-Tao HSUE)

Afternoon

Group 1:Security Assurance and the Future of Nuclear WeaponsChair:

Rebecca JOHNSON

• Make Common Efforts for a Non-Nuclear-Weapons World (ZHU Mingquan)
• The Future of Nuclear Weaponry and Our Civilization

(Francesco CALOGERO)

 

• Security Assurance (GU Guoliang)

 

• No First-Use (Elizabeth RINDSKOPF)

 

• The Steps to No-First-Use Treaty (WU Jun)

 

Group 2:Nuclear Nonproliferation and South Asia IssueChair:

Michael KREPON

• India and Pakistan, At the Crossroads (Robert S. NORRIS)

 

• Comparison between the Existing Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones and Perspectives of Limited Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia (XIA Liping)

 

• The Nuclear Tests in South Asia and Their Implications for International Arms Control Regime (HAN Hua)

 

• Nuclear testing and stability in Asia (Eric ARNETT)

 

Group 3:Missile Proliferation and Missile DefenseChair:

HUANG Zuwei

• The North Korean Missile Program (David WRIGHT)

 

• TMD, Sino-US-Japan Relationship, and East Asian Security (WU Chunsi)

 

• Challenges to the Nonproliferation Regime: National Ballistic Missile Defense Efforts in the United States (Joseph CIRINCIONE)

 

• The Implication of TMD System in Japan to China’s Security(HONG Yuan-Eng)

 

October 30, Friday

Morning

Chair:

Francesco CALOGERO

Plenary

:

Nuclear Disarmament and the Future of Nuclear Weapons

• Nuclear Weapons and International Security (Richard L. GARWIN)

 

• De-alerting Nuclear Missiles (Frank Von Hippel)

 

• An Immediate Step in Global Nuclear Arms Control (Li Bin)

 

• Multilateralising the Nuclear Disarmament Process: Next Steps for P5 Cooperation (Owen GREENE)

Afternoon

Group 1:Nuclear DisarmamentChair:

YUAN Renfeng

• Military Sales and Nuclear Proliferation, Disarmament and Arms Control (Gert G. HARIGEL)

 

• Should China Champion Missile Disarmament? (Jeremy STONE)

 

• Engaging the Five Nuclear Powers in Disarmament Talks (Rebecca JOHNSON)

 

• Disposition of Fissile Material from Nuclear Weapons
  (Thomas B. COCHRAN)

 

Group 2:Nuclear Nonproliferation RegimesChair:

Bruce LARKIN

• Impact of South-Asia’s Nuclear Tests upon CTBT (LI Zhimin)

 

• International Nonproliferation Regimes after the Cold War (Pan Tao)

 

• Non-Proliferation and International Security (TIAN Jingmei)
• The Future of Nonproliferation (Zhuang Jianzhong)

 

Group 3:Arms Control Verification and Confidence Building MeasuresChair:

LIU Gongliang

• Transparency and Confidence Building Measures (Michael KREPON)

 

• China’s CBM’s with CIS and India as a Precedent for the Korean Peninsula (Robert BEDESKI)
• Joint US/PRC CTBT OSI Simulation Exercises
  (Christina FILAROWSKI)

 

• The IAEA Strengthened International Safeguards Systems(Ming-Shih LU)

 

October 31, Saturday

Morning

Group 1 (Session 1):Arms Control in Outer SpaceChair:

HE Yingbo

• Arms Control in Space (George LINDSEY)

 

• Arms Control in Outer Space (HUANG Zuwei)

Group 1 (Session 2):Science and Arms ControlChair:

HE Yingbo

• Nonproliferation through International Lab-to-Lab Technology Cooperation (William H. DUNLOP)

 

• A Code of Ethics on Arms R&D for Scientists and Engineers (Lester G. PALDY)

 

• Technology Innovation in China (Marco DI CAPUA)

Group 2:Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Export ControlChair:

ZHU Mingquan

• The Compatibility of US and Chinese Export Controls (Richard T. CUPITT)

 

• China’s Export Control Policy in East Asian Context: Implications from Economic Perspectives (Yuzo MURAYAMA)

 

• Export Control and International Security (Evan MEDEIROS)

 

• Some Comments on Japanese Plutonium Policy (Paolo COTTA-RAMUSINO)

Group 3:Regional Security and Material ControlChair:

GU Guoliang

• Nuclear Materials and International Security (LIU Gongliang)

 

• A New Regional Security Structure in Europe: Russia, Belarus & Ukraine, and Its Impact on Security and Disarmament (Thomas JOHANSSON)

 

• Revisiting the 1946 Acheson-Lilienthal Report: Are the Report’s Proposals and Arguments Helpful for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Today? (Bruce D. LARKIN)

Afternoon

Chair:

ZHANG Buren

Session 1:Plenary: Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Export Control

• Promoting Nuclear Nonproliferation: A Chinese View (Dingli SHEN)

 

• Current Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (Alessandro PASCOLINI)

 

• Non-Proliferation and International Security (OUYANG Liping)

Session 2:Closing Remarks

• Alessandro PASCOLINI, Vice President, ISODARCO, Italy

 

• HU Side, President, CAEP