Nuclear Weapon Risk Reduction

Name: Nuclear Weapon Risk Reduction
Start: 2020-10-07T14:00:00-0400
End: 2020-10-07T15:30:00-0400

RSVP Required Open to the Public

A Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) seminar with Wilfred Wan, Researcher in the WMD Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

The seminar is open to the public. Please RSVP below for access to the Zoom link.

Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2020 Time: 02:00pm - 03:30pm Location: Online

A Titan II ICBM at the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona.

Dialogue on nuclear weapon risk reduction has evolved considerably in recent years as widely perceived nuclear risk, and awareness of the causes of risk, has increased. This seminar will discuss the evolution of the topic, including its presence on the agenda of several multilateral venues and State-led initiatives. It shares an analytical framework developed by UNIDIR for considering the different pathways to nuclear weapon use, and also discusses challenges in the development of common understandings and the identification of joint priorities among States—prerequisites in the adoption of practical and feasible measures towards closing use pathways.

Wilfred Wan is a Researcher in the WMD Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). He is the author of Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Wilfred was previously a JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow with the UNU Centre for Policy Research, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine.