20 Events

U.S. Census envelope in mailbox

Public Domain

Seminar - Open to the Public

The Population Census in Brazil and the US: Importance, Challenges, and Confidentiality

Wed., Oct. 27, 2021 | 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Online

Speakers:  John AbowdAssociate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist, United States Census Bureau; Eduardo Rios Neto, President, Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Moderator: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Chair, Brazil Studies Program

Everyone is welcome. Please register via Zoom:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0U0low0_SaSFZUwYGVqUow

Yellow cake uranium is a solid form of uranium oxide produced from uranium ore. Yellow cake must be processed further before it is made into nuclear fuel.

Wikimedia CC/Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Seminar - Open to the Public

Foreign Skeletons in Nuclear Closets: Implications for Policy and Verification

Thu., May 23, 2019 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

Speaker: Sébastien Philippe, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Most successful nuclear weapons programs have benefited from significant foreign assistance for the acquisition of nuclear materials, sensitive equipment, and know-how. Such assistance is often kept secret, even after states decide to put an end to their nuclear weapons programs or ambitions. This seminar will discuss the policy and verification implications of this source of opacity on the reconstruction of past nuclear military activities as part of non-proliferation or denuclearization agreements.  It will build upon an historical and technical analysis of nuclear assistance between France, Israel, and South Africa and conclude by discussing the impact of discovering previously hidden information on existing policies and ongoing diplomatic processes.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

U.S. President Richard Nixon, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, during the first official visit by a U.S. president to Israel, June 16–17, 1974.

Ya'acov Sa'ar, GPO​

Seminar - Open to the Public

The Political Effects of Nuclear Proliferation

Thu., Sep. 17, 2015 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

This seminar will examine these political effects of nuclear acquisition in the cases of France, China, Israel, and South Africa and reflect on the likely political consequences of eventual Iranian nuclear acquisition.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Seminar - Open to the Public

The CTBTO and its Verification System: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Wed., Apr. 30, 2014 | 10:00am - 11:30am

Rubenstein Building - Room G20

Dr. Lassina Zerbo has been the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization since August of 2013. In this Project on Managing the Atom seminar, he will discuss the state of the CTBTO and its Verification System.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Seminar - Open to the Public

All Options on the Table? Nuclear Proliferation, Preventive War, and a Leader's Decision to Intervene

Thu., Apr. 10, 2014 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

Under what conditions do states use preventive military force to forestall or destroy an adversary's nuclear weapons program? If nuclear weapons are so dangerous, why do leaders disagree about the magnitude of the threat posed by specific nuclear programs?

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment recovered from the <em>BBC China</em> in Italy, en route to Libya, in 2003. They were later taken to the Y-12 complex in the USA where this photo was taken (with a Y-12 guard also in the photo).

DOE Photo

Seminar - Open to the Public

The Problem with "Mixed" Strategies: Revisiting Libya's Decision to Give Up its Nuclear Program

Thu., Nov. 7, 2013 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

Libya's decision to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions has been interpreted by most observers as support for the idea that mixed strategies are good policy. Although they disagree over which particular tools of influence were most important, most agree that some mixture of coercion and inducements explains Gaddafi's decision to disarm. This is not, however, supported by the evidence.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, gestures to chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi after unveiling a 3rd generation of domestically built centrifuge for Iran's National Day of Nuclear Technology in Tehran, Apr. 4, 2009

AP Photo

Seminar - Open to the Public

Can Sanctions Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons?

Thu., Feb. 24, 2011 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Taubman Building - Kalb Seminar Room, Room 275

Economic sanctions have long been derided as ineffective instruments of foreign policy and yet continue to remain a principal tool for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons across nations. This seminar will analyze the impact of sanctions on nuclear programs based on case studies of Taiwan, Iraq, Libya, and Iran. It offers an understanding of the limits and possibilities of sanctions, showing that they can sometimes play a critical role in coercing nuclear aspirants.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Miners walk near the Toromocho copper project of the Chinese company Chinalco in Morococha, Peru, July 19, 2008. Chinese trade with Latin America has grown more than tenfold since 2000.

AP Photo

Seminar - Open to the Public

The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

Wed., Feb. 9, 2011 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm

China's growing appetite for primary products, and the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role in restoring growth in Latin America, both in the run-up to the global financial crisis and in its aftermath. However, China is simultaneously out-competing Latin American manufacturers in world markets. China is rapidly building the technological capabilities necessary for industrial development, whereas Latin American technology innovation and sophistication lags considerably.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

Libya's Science and Research Minister Matouq Mohamed Matouq and IAEA's Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, from left, sign an agreement opening up Libya's nuclear activities to IAEA inspections on Mar. 10, 2004, in Vienna.

AP Photo

Seminar - Open to the Public

What Drives Nuclear Proliferation? A Pragmatist Analysis

Mon., May 17, 2010 | 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Rubenstein Building - Room G20

One of the major unsolved puzzles of international politics is why only some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others never start a weapons program or even renounce their activities. A new theoretical framework based on the literature of American Pragmatism overcomes long-standing theoretical disaccords and provides a better understanding of the issues underlying states' decision-making. Insights from the cases of Switzerland and Libya will be applied in order to show the benefits of such an alternative approach.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.