Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Speaker: Colleen Larkin, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

President Jimmy Carter entered office committed to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign policy. He espoused the logic of mutually assured destruction and hoped for major arms control progress. Yet by the end of his presidency, he had embraced a competitive nuclear posture and accelerated the arms race. What explains this shift in Carter’s strategy? 

Open to Harvard ID Holders Only: Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis. Coffee &Tea Provided.

On October 30 at 11:00 AM, the Belfer Center and the Project on Managing the Atom will host a presentation and discussion with members of the UN Panel of Experts on Iran, established under Security Council resolution 1929 (2010) on the UN sanctions committee’s work.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Rhodes examines the arms race during the final years of the Cold War and the Reagan-Gorbachev decade from memoirs, interviews, and newly released information in a third volume of nuclear history, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.

Tom Bielefeld, a joint MTA/ISP Fellow, will discuss Radiological Terrorism: Issues in Prevention and Preparedness.

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has established Task Group 94 to develop a publication on the ethical foundations of the system of radiological protection, aiming to consolidate the basis of ICRP’s recommendations, to improve the understanding of the system and to provide a basis for communication on radiation risk and its perception. To support this effort, a series of regional workshops is being held. The first in this series were held in Daejeon (Korea), Milan (Italy), and Baltimore (USA), supported by the local Associate Societies of the International Radiation Protection Association. Collaboration between radiological protection professionals and applied.