The Future of Russian-US Strategic Arms Reductions: START III and Beyond

Meeting Schedule

Monday AM: (2 February)

Opening remarks:
Prof. Theodore A. Postol, Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Anatoli Diakov, Director, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT

I Summary of Projected Forces With and Without START II
Chair: Anatoli Diakov

David Mosher, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office,

U.S. Nuclear Forces Under START-2

Paul Podvig, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT

The Russian Strategic Forces: Uncertain Future (See also a complete text of the presentation)

Monday PM: (2 February)
II Objectives of Future Arms Reductions
Chair: Paul Podvig

Prof. Theodore A. Postol, Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Capabilities of Trident against Russian Silo-Based Missiles: Implications for START III and Beyond

Eugene Miasnikov, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT

What START-3 Could Correspond to Russian Interests? (See also a complete text of the presentation)

Tuesday AM: (3 February)
III The Objectives of Future Reductions (continued)
Chair: George Lewis

Colonel (retired) Petr Romashkin, Consultant to the Office of Russian State Duma

Future of Russian Strategic Forces: Roles and Requirements

Harold Feiveson, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University

The Objectives of Deep Cuts in Nuclear Weapons

Tuesday PM: (3 February)
IV Dismantlement and Irreversibility
Chair: David Wright

Ambassador James E. Goodby, Carnegy Mellon University

Dismantlement and Irreversibility: Problems and Prospects

CTR Projects Within the Frames of START I and II Implementation

START-3 and Verified Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement (See also a complete text of the presentation- in Russian)

Wednesday AM : (4 February)
V Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Chair: Owen Cote

Timur Kadyshev, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at MIPT

Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Russian View

Steve Fetter, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

Prospects for Tactical Nuclear Weapons Reductions

Wednesday PM: (4 February)
VI Modifying Operational Practices
Chair: Eugene Miasnikov

Bruce Blair, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
Prof. Frank von Hippel, Princeton University

De-alerting

Colonel (retired) Valeri Yarynych, Assistant to Deputy Chair of the Committee for Defense, Russian State Duma

Need for U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Ensuring Negative Control of Strategic Forces

Thursday AM: (5 February)
VII The Implications of Defenses for Arms Reductions
Chair: Frank von Hippel

Lisbeth Gronlund, Union of Concerned Scientists

ABM Treaty and Nuclear Arms Reductions

ABM Treaty and Nuclear Arms Reductions

Thursday PM : (5 February)
VIII Next Steps
Co-Chairs: Anatoli Diakov and Theodore A. Postol

Rear Adm. Alexei Ovcharenko, Deputy Chief of Operational Directorate, Main Naval Staff, Russian Navy

A Russian Naval Perspective

Friday AM :(6 February)
IX Continuation of Next Steps Discussion and for Completion of Meeting Business

Discussion

For more information, please, contact Prof. Theodore Postol (617-253-8077, U.S.A.) or Prof. Anatoli Diakov (095-408-6381, Russia).