2015 Speakers

Watch Now Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclearweapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively ended short of the bomb, and even thesuccessful projects have generally needed far more time than expected.

Watch Now As part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk entitled "The Prague Agenda after the Iran Deal"

Watch Now As part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk entitled "U.S.-Russia Relations and the Future of Arms Control"

Watch Now This seminar is part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative. Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. What do states gain by keeping open the option to produce nuclear weapons?

Watch Now This seminar will feature a presentation by, Kathleen Vogel on Biotechnology and Bioterrorism: Re-Conceptualizing Bioweapons Threats.

Watch Now This seminar is part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative. Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. This is open to the Laboratory."

Watch Now The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is hosting a talk entitled "An Informal Roundtable Discussion on "Strategic Stability in South Asia: Recent Developments."

Watch Now Australia possesses a limited capacity to shape its external environment. In strategic terms, it is a security taker rather than a security maker, and economically Australia remains at the mercy of trading markets in Northeast Asia.

If a final agreement with Iran has been reached by the June 30 deadline, this presentation will evaluate its components, strengths, and weaknesses, and overall likelihood of success.

Watch Now In December 2014, the U.S. Department of State's International Security Advisory Board delivered a report to Under Secretary Gottemoeller on U.S. - Russia Relations.

Rose E. Gottemoeller was sworn in as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security (T) on March 7, 2014. As Under Secretary, Gottemoeller advises the Secretary on arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament.

Beguiled by the euphoria and tranquility that followed the end of the Cold War, we confused a brief respite with the dawn of a new age. The "end of history" has ended.

Watch Now As part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk entitled "Strategic Conflict in the 21st Century: Theories of Victory, Red and Blue"

Watch Now As part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk entitled "The Iran Nuclear Negotiations: Prospects for a Deal and Implications for Proliferation in the Middle East."

Watch Now China is poised to become a major strategic rival to the United States. Whether or not Beijing intends to challenge Washington's primacy, its economic boom and growing national ambitions make competition inevitable.

Watch Now As part of the ongoing Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk entitled "Nuclear Deterrence Strategies of Regional Powers" Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. This is open to the Laboratory.

Watch Now The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is sponsoring a talk by Christine Leah, entitled "Deterrence and Arms Control in a Second Conventional Age." Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. This event is open to the Laboratory.

Watch Now The US Government has been preoccupied with cybersecurity for more than a decade. In the last five years, economic espionage and massive corporate intrusions have raised cybersecurity alarms in boardrooms across the country.

The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is hosting a talk entitled "Pakistan's Nuclear Security Architecture: Evaluation and Trajectory." Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. The talk is open to all Laboratory employees.

As part of the Nuclear Crossroads Initiative, the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) is hosting a talk entitled "International Order in a Second Nuclear Age." Following the lecture there will be a question and answer session. This is open to the Laboratory.