Sunday, 24 September

 

08:00 -                Registration in the lobby of the hotel upon arrival

 

18:00 - 20:00      Buffet in the hotel where you stay

 

Monday, 25 September

 

07:30 - 8:20      Breakfast in the hotel where you stay

 

8:30 Sharp        For those who stay in the Asia Gulf Hotel, bus transportation at the entrance of the hotel to the Lecture Hall in Xiamen National Accounting Institute (XNAI) where all sessions will be held.

 

09:00 - 09:40      Opening Session               Chairman: Li Hua

 

Co-Chairman:   Hu Side, Academician,  CAEP

Co-Chairman:   Carlo Schaerf,  President,  ISODARCO

Co-Chairman:   Wang Zaibang,  Vice President,  CICIR

Co-Chairman:   President, Xiamen University

Mayor, Xiamen Municipality

 

9:40 - 10:10      Group Photo/Tea Break

 

10:10 - 12:30      Panel Session 1:  Strategic Cooperation, Security and Stability in the New Era

Chairman: Carlo Schaerf

 

Yang Yi  “Big-Power Cooperation in Maintaining Peace”

Talat Masood  “Strategic Stability in South Asia”

Gu Ziping  “The Political Significance of the CTBT”

Catherine Kelleher:  “Cooperative Security in 21^st Century Europe”

Martin Ramirez  “Offence vs. Defense in Aggression Research”

Richard L. Garwin  “Nuclear Power Does Not Need to Present a Proliferation Risk”

 

12:30 - 14:00      Lunch break in the Dinning Room around the Lecture Hall

 

14:00 - 16:00     Panel Session 2:  WMD Proliferation and Mechanism to Curb It

Chairman:  Malur Srinivasan

 

Ye Ruan  “Some Relations on International Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation”

Lewis Dunn  “Strengthening P-5 Non-Proliferation Cooperation”

Zhai Yucheng  “Current Situation and Problems of Sino-US Cooperation on Nonproliferation”

Anupam Srivastava  “Positive Trajectory of China's Export Controls: Strategies to Promote International Cooperation”

Hou Hongyu  “Reviewing the U.S. Nonproliferation Policy”

Wade Huntley  “Nuclear Nonproliferation: Time for New Thinking”

 

16:00 - 16:15 Tea Break

 

16:15 - 18:30     Panel Session 2 (Cont.):  WMD Proliferation and Mechanism to Curb It

Chairman:  Thomas Cochran

 

Duan Zhanyuan  “Challenges to Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime”

Steve Wright  “New Border Control Systems in A Time of Terror”

Jay Nash  “International Export Controls and WMD Proliferation”

John Rydqvist  “Sweden, Iran and North Korea: Comparing Proliferation, Brinkmanship and Decision Making on Nuclear Weapons Programs.”

Shen Dingli  “Comparison of the DPRK and Iran’s Nuclear Issues”

Mark Suh  “Prospect of A Peaceful Solution to the Korean Question”

 

18:30                Bus transportation for all participants at the entrance of the Lecture Hall to the Asia Gulf Hotel

 

19:00 - 20:30      Reception in the Asia Gulf Hotel

 

21:00 -              Bus transportation back to the XNAI for those who stay there

 

Tuesday, 26 September

 

07:30 - 8:30      Breakfast in the hotel where you stay

 

8:40 Sharp        For those who stay in the Asia Gulf Hotel, bus transportation at the entrance of the hotel to the Lecture Hall in Xiamen National Accounting Institute (XNAI)

 

09:00 - 11:00      Panel Session 3:  Regional Stability and Nuclear Energy Cooperation

Chairman:  Victor Gilinsky

 

Abdul Hameed Nayyar  “South Asia After the US-India Nuclear Deal”

Han Hua  “US-Indian Nuclear Agreement and International Nonproliferation Regime”

Malur Srinivasan  “Energy Security and Global Peace”

Zhu Xvhui  “Preliminary Thinking on GNEP, Global Nuclear Energy Partnership”

Joseph F. Pilat  “Nuclear Power and the Risks of Proliferation and Terrorism”

 

11:00 - 11:15      Tea Break

 

11:15 - 12:30     Panel Session 4:  Nuclear Weapons: Security Keeper or Destroyer

Chairman:  Ye Ruan

 

Robert Norris  “New Findings about Chinese Nuclear Weapons”

Bruce Blair  “U.S. Nuclear Primacy: A Rebuttal”

Stephen Schwartz  “Sites Unseen:  A Virtual Tour of Past and Present U.S. Nuclear Weapons Installations Using Google Earth”

 

12:30 - 14:00      Lunch break in the Dinning Room around the Lecture Hall

 

14:00 - 16:00     Panel Session 4 (Cont.):  Nuclear Weapons: Security Keeper or Destroyer

Chairman:  Pan Zhenqiang

 

Victor Gilinsky  “The Evolution of Nuclear Arsenals since 1945”

Jeffrey Lewis  “Some Issues Relating to the Interaction of US and Chinese Strategic Forces”

Thomas Cochran  “China's Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Strategic Policy”

Stephen Schwartz  “The Reliable Replacement Warhead and the Transformation of the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal”

Robert Nelson  “The US Nuclear Stockpile and the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program”

 

16: 00 - 16: 15    Tea Break

 

16:15 - 18:30      Panel Session 5:  Nuclear Weapons: Where to Go Further

Chairman:  Najmuddin Shaikh

 

Takao Takahara  “Disarmament as A Path Towards Security Community”

Masako Ikegami  “The Complex of East Asian Regional Security: Offence vs. Defense in Military Build-Up, Doctrine and Political Rhetoric”

Rappa Maliakal  “Get back to Disarmament”

Qu Changhong  “A Preliminary Analysis on Conventional Long Range Ballistic Missile”

Bruce Blair   “The Conventionalisation of U.S. Strategic Forces” 

Liu Gongliang  “Discussion on Several Basic Concept of Arms Control Verification”

 

18:30 - 20:00      Buffet in the Dinning Room around the Lecture Hall

 

20:30                Bus transportation at the entrance of the Lecture Hall to the Asia Gulf Hotel for those who stay in that hotel

 

Wednesday, 27 September

 

07:30 - 8:30      Breakfast in the hotel where you stay

 

     Organized Activities

 

Thursday, 28 September

 

07:30 - 8:30      Breakfast in the hotel where you stay

 

8:40 Sharp        For those who stay in the Asia Gulf Hotel, bus transportation at the entrance of the hotel to the Lecture Hall in Xiamen National Accounting Institute (XNAI)

 

09:00 - 11:00      Panel Session 6:  Can We Still Have A Stable and Peace Outer Space

Chairman:  Lewis Dunn

 

David Webb  “The New Space Emperors – In Pursuit of Dominating the Final Frontier?”

Li Daozhong  “The Weaponization Trend of Outer Space and Its Impact on International Landscape”

Joan Johnson-Freese  “Building A Stable Security Environment in Space”

Qiu Yong  “The Outlook for Preventing Space Weaponization”

Gert Harigel  “Weaponization of Space”

Gregory Kulacki  “Lost in Space: Poor Guidance Makes U.S.–China Cooperation Hard to Navigate”

 

11:00 - 11:15      Tea Break

 

11:15 - 12:30     Panel Session 6 (Cont.):  Can We Still Have A Stable and Peace Outer Space

Chairman:  Martin Ramirez

 

Zhao Yingjun  “The Role of Commercial Satellite Technology in the International Security”

Geoffrey Forden  “Increasing Nuclear Stability with Shared Global Missile Launch Surveillance”

Jia Guanghui  “Space Debris and Safety of Spacecraft”

 

12:30 - 14:00      Lunch break in the Dinning Room around the Lecture Hall

 

14:00 - 15:45      Panel Session 7:  Count-Terrorism: A Century’s Challenge

Chairman:  Catherine Kelleher

 

Francesco Calogero  “The Twin Risks of Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism”

Wu Jun  “Analysis on the Risk of Nuclear Terrorism and the Protection of Radioactive Materials”

Lester Paldy  “Terrorists, Organized Crime, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Growing Threat”

Joseph F. Pilat  “Dealing with Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism Threats: What is the Role of the NPT”

 

15: 45 - 16: 00    Tea Break

 

16:00 - 18:30      Panel Session 8 / Closing Session:  Harmony Makes the World Stable and Secure in the New Century

Chairman:  Li Hua

 

Massimo Mauro  “Recent Trends in Information Operations”

Steve Wright, David Webb  “Towards Unlimited Growth – A False Sense of Security”

Brian Rappert  “The Life Sciences, Biosecurity, and Dual-Use Research: A Proposed Method for Engaging with Scientists”

Houston Hawkins  “Promises and Problems: The Yin Yang of the New Nuclear Age”

 

18:30                Bus transportation for all participants at the entrance of the Lecture Hall to the Asia Gulf Hotel

 

19:00 - 20:30      Banquet in the Asia Gulf Hotel

 

21:00 -              Bus transportation back to the XNAI for those who stay there

 

Friday, 29 September

 

07:30 - 8:30      Breakfast in the hotel where you stay

 

                          Departure from the Seminar and Farewell to All

 

 

Important Note: Each speaker in panel sessions will generally have 10-15 minutes for presentation, subject to overall coordination between presentations and discussions by the Chairman of each panel session.