The 2023 Arms Control Association Annual Meeting
Reducing Nuclear Threats in a Time of Peril 

June 2, 2023 • National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

Please join us Friday, June 2, 2023, as we return to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for our 2023 Annual Meeting with members, friends, and colleagues.

 

This year's panel discussions will include:

  • "Preventing a Three-Way Nuclear Arms Race”
  • "Reducing Nuclear Risks and Reinforcing the Taboos Against Nuclear Use and Threats”
  • "The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Is There a Diplomatic Plan B?"
  • "Risk and Regulation of AI in Nuclear Command and Control"

Our confirmed speakers include: 

 

Tong Zhao (Program on Science and Global Security Program at Princeton) • Jon Wolfsthal (former senior director for arms control and nonproliferation at the NSC) • Lynn Rusten (Nuclear Threat Initiative) • Morton Halperin (former senior official on arms control and defense matters in the Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama administrations) • Rebecca Davis Gibbons (University of Southern Maine and co-chair of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group at the Harvard Project on Managing the Atom) • Ali Vaez (International Crisis Group) • Kelsey Davenport (Arms Control Association) • Dylan Willams (J Street) • Helen Toner (Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology) • Paul Dean (U.S. State Department) • Chris Meserole (Brookings Institution)

One of our two keynote addresses will be delivered by Ambassador Alexander Kmentt, director of disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and president-designate of the first meeting of the states-parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

 

We look forward to seeing you June 2! 

Register Now to Secure Your Seat!

* The Arms Control Association and the National Press Club recommend that attendees be vaccinated and that those who are not vaccinated wear masks, but neither proof of vaccination nor a mask is required. We ask that you do not attend if you are not feeling well, if you test positive, or if you have a known exposure to COVID-19 within the week preceding June 2. 

 

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