50th Anniversary Event and Reception

Arms Control Association (host) Speakers: Mallory Stewart, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica Thomas Countryman, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) Eric Brewer, senior director of the Nuclear Materials Security Program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative Shannon Bugos, senior policy analyst, Arms Control Association Kelsey Davenport, policy director at the Arms Control Association, moderating Special Presentation Denise Duffield, associate director of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles Daryl Kimball, executive director, Arms Control Association Zia Mian, co-director of the Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security Michael Klare, senior visiting fellow on emerging technologies at the Arms Control Association Jamie Kwong, Stanton pre-doctoral fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Oliver Meier, senior researcher at the Berlin office of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) Joan Rohlfing, president and chief operating office of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Victoria Samson, Washington office director for the Secure World Foundation Nina Tannenwald, director of the international relations program at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and author of The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 Chris Wing, acting board chair of the Arms Control Association, moderating