Actualizing the Administration's Goal of Preventing Nuclear Terrorism

The Stanley Foundation and the Stimson Center will host a luncheon to discuss the topic "Actualizing the Administration's Goal of Preventing Nuclear Terrorism." Panelists include Jorge Urbina, permanent representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations and chairman of the UNSCR 1540 Committee; Thomas Wuchte, United States senior advisor of the UNSCR 1540 Committee; and Elizabeth Turpen, senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center. The luncheon is open to the policy community.

In April 2004, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1540, of which the goal was to strengthen controls over sensitive weapons, materials, technologies, and know-how—particularly regarding proliferation to nonstate actors. The focus of this panel is to discuss how Resolution 1540 may be used as a cooperative normative, political, and legal framework in addressing the threat of transnational, nonstate nuclear proliferation and terrorism via capacity-building solutions that meet the concerns of the Global South.

Questions for discussion include:

• How relevant is UN Resolution 1540 for the Obama administration’s goal of “preventing nuclear terrorism?” Can the prevention of nuclear terrorism be usefully linked to longstanding governance needs in many regions of the world?
• How can measures traditionally thought of as “development aid”—internal security, customs, justice systems, health systems, among others—be connected to the need to tighten control over the globalized networks through which nuclear and other WMD materials and know-how might spread?
• In tapping US national security resources to effectively address mutual concerns, is there a way to meld global cooperative threat reduction concepts and programs to the implementation of Resolution 1540, and vice versa?
• In ongoing efforts to implement Resolution 1540, are the actual security concerns and capacity-building needs of the developing world being taken into account, or are more serious efforts needed in this regard?

When:  Thursday, May 7, 2009

Where: Stimson Center Conference Room

 

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