Please join us next Wednesday, November 7th, for an STS BROWN BAG LUNCH TALK
Understanding Successful Proliferators: How the
most undeveloped nations get the world's most dangerous weapons
Speaker: Geoff Forden, MIT
12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191
Dr. Forden has been at MIT since 2000 where his
research includes the analysis of Russian and
Chinese space systems as well as trying to
understand how proliferators acquire the know-how
and industrial infrastructure to produce weapons
of mass destruction. In 2002-2003, Dr. Forden
spent a year on leave from MIT serving as the
first Chief of Multidiscipline Analysis Section
for UNMOVIC, the UN agency responsible for
verifying and monitoring the dismantlement of
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Previous to
coming to MIT, he was a strategic weapons analyst
in the National Security Division of the
Congressional Budget Office after having worked
at a number of international particle accelerator centers.
Abstract:
The world is at the brink of a sea change in the
proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction. Twenty years ago, supply-side
regimes like the Nuclear Suppliers Group could
fairly effectively slow down or even stop the
spread of nuclear weapons by tightening up the
export controls of a small group of
countries. Today, as the A. Q. Khan network has
shown, the necessary industrial base is spreading
around the world. This talk will examine a
number of cases where proliferators were
successfulÂand several where they were notÂin
getting nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons
was well as ballistic missiles. Some of the
factors that made the difference between
successful proliferation and failure will be
discussed. Future nonproliferation regimes can
then use those facts to limit the spread of WMD.
Feel free to bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.
For more information, 617-452-2390
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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