Events Detail

 

Hudson Institute’s Center for Political-Military Analysis and

Partnership for a Secure America presented 

 

Nuclear Non-Proliferation and East Asia

 

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2:45 - 5:00 PM

  

 

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Richard Weitz (co-chair), Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute

 

Mark Brzezinski (co-chair), International Law Partner, McGuireWoods LLP and Board Member, Partnership for a Secure America

 

Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

 

Patrick Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security

 

Christopher Ford, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Technology and Global Security, Hudson Institute

 

Jeffrey Lewis, Director, Nuclear Strategy Initiative at the New America Foundation 

 

This panel on East Asian and nuclear security discussed the immediate challenge of persuading North Korea to return to the Six-Party talks and the longer-term prospects of securing its de-nuclearization and averting further nuclear proliferation in East Asia.  Participants also covered the effects of Korean developments on the future of the global non-proliferation regime, particularly the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference later this year.   

 

A related set of questions relates to the nuclear policies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).  What role can Beijing play in re-energizing the Six-Party Talks? How well does the PRC now adhere to global nuclear nonproliferation norms and what can it do better? As the United States and Russia commit to reducing their nuclear arsenals further, can China be persuaded to join these strategic offensive nuclear reductions talks or adopt other policies in their support?   

 

Finally, at a time when the U.S. administration has committed to ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, what are the prospects for its ratification by North Korea or China? 

 

For more information, please contact Richard Weitz, weitz@hudson.org

 

Hudson Institute is a nonpartisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) is dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.   

 

Location: Hudson Institute, Walter and Betsy Stern Conference Center,

1015 15th St, NW

, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005