International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation

INESAP Conference 1997

September 8 to 10, 1997, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Introduction of participants

• Prafulla Chandra BIDWAI is a columnist and researcher. He is the author of a book on nuclear weapons and interested in disarmament. He has lectured at many universities in India and abroad. He contributes articles to 20 newspapers.
• Reiner BRAUN is the magister in German and journalism, acting as Executive Director of INES and Naturwissenschaftler Initiative fuer Verantwortung und Frieden.
• Jacqueline CABASSO is the Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF), a non-profit public interest organization, founded in 1982, that investigates and challenges nuclear weapons programs at the U.S. National Laboratories (Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia) and the Nevada Test Site. WSLF seeks to abolish nuclear weapons, compel open public environmental review of hazardous nuclear technologies, and ensure appropriate management of nuclear waste. Grounded in both international and environmental law, the principle guiding WSLF's activities is advancement of the democratization of policies affecting nuclear weapons and related nuclear technologies. WSLF's legal, technical and organizing activities support public participation in shaping domestic and global nuclear policy. WSLF is a founding member of Abolition 2000, A Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons.
• Jor-Shan CHOI was born in China on September 7, 1950. His family migrated to Hong Kong when he was five. He received his education (up to high school) in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 1969. He received his university degrees (B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. M. S. and Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering) all from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for Bechtel Corporation for 13 years in nuclear power plant design and analysis before he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1987. His professional fields of interest include nuclear fuel cycle and radioactive wastes management, criticality safety and radiation protection, spent fuel partitioning and transmutation, and weapons plutonium disposition, etc. He taught (1992-94) a graduate course on "Nuclear fuel cycle and radioactive waste management" for the Nuclear Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. He was a Science Fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) of Stanford University.
• Merav DATAN is currently Director of Research at Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy. She was formerly director of comprehensive arms restraint project for World Order Models Project. She has a BA in physics (Swarthmore College, 1984), and a JD in law (Columbia University, 1994). Also she worked at the Ethiopian Consulate in Jerusalem, Israel, for several years. Interests include Middle East security.
• DENG Hongmei is an associate professor in chemistry and a part-time research fellow at Fudan's Arms Control and Regional Security Program, Dr. Deng focuses her studies on social and environmental problems of Abandoned Chemical Weapons (ACW) left by Japan in China and environmentally safe destruction technologies of chemical weapons under the CWC. She is also interested in studies on nuclear weapons arms control and disarmament.
• Abdel Gawad EMARA got his Ph.D. degree from Moscow State University in 1963 in Nuclear Chemistry. 1963-1968 Lecturer Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. 1968-1973 Assistant Professor Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. 1973-1978 Professor of Nuclear chemistry, Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. 1986-1989 Head of Nuclear Chemistry Department. 1990-1993 Head of Nuclear Materials and Waste Management Department. 1993-1996 Head of Division of Safety of Nuclear Installations. From 1996 Professor Emeritus, Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt. He is the member of Executive Committee of the Egyptian PUGWASH Society, and International Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Egypt.
• Surendra GADEKAR was born on January 14, 1947. He did his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. He spent two years as a post doctoral fellow at Iowa State University in USA. He has taught for two years at Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. Since 1986, he has engaged full time in training of young activists in methods of non-violent protest at Institute for Total Revolution and as editor of Anumukti-A Journal Devoted to Non-Nuclear India.
• Owen GREENE is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations & Security Studies at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. He trained and researched in theoretical physics for several years and has researched on a range of issues relating to arms control, disarmament and regional security over the last decade. His present research interests include: limiting missile proliferation and development of the MTCR, development and effectiveness of multilateral export controls on conventional arms, arms transparency measures, Asia-Pacific and European security after the Cold War, and verification and effectiveness of the NPT and CTBT.
• Fawzy Hussein HAMMAD is better known as F. H. Hammad. B.Sc. Chem. Eng.- Alexandria University, Egypt 1957, M.S. Metallurgical-Nuclear Eng. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Ph.D Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 1965. Consultant to the IAEA, 1994, 1995, 1996. President, Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt, 1990-1994. President and Founder, National Center for Nuclear Safety, 1982-1990. Professor of Metallurgy, American University in Cairo, 1978-1982. Now Prof. Emeritus, Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt, covering nuclear fuel cycle, advanced materials, nuclear safety, non-proliferation and disarmament.
• HAN Hua is a lecturer at the Institute of Asian-African Studies, and a project leader of Arms Control and Disarmament Program at Peking University. Her areas of specialization are South Asian studies (with special reference to arms control and foreign policy). She is the author of a number of articles and chapters published in national/international journals and books.
• HUANG Zuwei is a senior research fellow at the Arms Control Research Group of China Aerospace Corporation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He worked as a Systems Engineer in China's Rocket and Launch Vehicle Development Program from 1960's to 1980's. Now he is working on Future Chinese Space Programs and Arms Control Research in arms control in outer space, strategic nuclear arms reduction, ballistic missile defense and MTCR issues.
• Vladimir IAKIMETS is a senior researcher at the Institute for System Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Amongst others he has written about laboratory experiments for nuclear weapons research in Russia and other countries.
• Rebecca JOHNSON is Director of the Acronym Institute, which publishes the monthly journal Disarmament Diplomacy, covering all aspects of negotiations on arms control and disarmament. After many years working on disarmament and environmental issues, Rebecca Johnson is currently analyzing arms control prospects at the Conference on Disarmament, NPT Review Process and among the nuclear weapon sates. She is author of the Acronym series of reports on the CTBT and NPT and a regular contributor to Bulletins of the Atomic Scientists and journals in the field.
• Martin KALINOWSKI has the diploma in physics at Aachen Technical University (1988). He is working on nuclear arms control since 1989 with IANUS. His Ph.D. thesis on international tritium control completed in 1997. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Coordinating Committee of INESAP.
• Ayman KHALIL has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. Currently he is the director of CRACS in Jordan. Previously he was as Supervisor of Kuwait National Observatory in Kuwait, and a Researcher at Rutherford Appelton Laboratory in UK.
• David KRIEGER is a founder and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is active in seeking the world with abolition of nuclear weapons. He is active in seeking the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons. He is also the deputy chair of The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility.
• LEE Pil Ryul is a scientist and professor. He is an advisory member for anti-nuclear fields at KFEM and a professor of Korean Open University. He has a lot of experience concerning anti-nuclear fields.
• George LEWIS is Associate Director of the Security Studies Program (formerly known as the Defense and Arms Control Studies Program) at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University, and has worked full time on arms control and international security issues for the last eight year. His current research focuses on the effectiveness and implications of ballistic missile defenses and on deep reductions in nuclear forces.
• Wolfgang LIEBERT studies in Physics and Philosophy at the Universities of D=A8=B9sseldorf and Frankfurt. Diploma in physics, 1985. He had his dissertation in physics in Frankfurt in 1990. Since 1990 he has been a researcher with IANUS, the Studies Plenary Research Group in Science, Technology and Security of the Technical University Darmstadt.
• LIU Erxun is a senior research fellow and former Vice Chief Engineer of China Academy of Launch-Vehicle Technology. He is now engaged in the research of arms control issues including the research of nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, reduction of strategic arms, missile technology control regime and arms control in outer space.
• LIU Huaqiu is Director of the Program on Arms Control and Disarmament at the China Defense Science and Technology Information Center, and member of the Chinese Scientists Group on Arms Control under the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament. He was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, Harvard University and the Henry L. Stimson Center. Prof. Liu is author of "China and the Neutron Bomb" "Role of Nuclear Weapons after the Cold War," "A Review of China's Position on Nuclear Arms Control," "Confidence-Building Measures in Asia" and many other papers.
• Allison MACFARLANE in presently a Science Fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, on leave from a tenure-track position in Geology at George Mason University. This past year she was a Bunting Science Fellow and a Kennedy School Fellow at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. She works on the technical issues associated with high-level nuclear waste management.
• Marco A. MARTINRZ-NEGRETE is a physicist by training. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Mexico. He is a full time professor and head of the physics department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Mexico. He is consultant of the Mexican Physical Society and the Mexican Federation of Scientific Societies on peaceful science and disarmament. His current field of research is in thermodynamics applied to rural villages.
• Luis MASPERI is a Professor at Institute Balseiro and a researcher on theoretical physics at Centro Atomico Bariloche. He is a member of Board of Auger Collaboration on High Energy Cosmic Rays, and a member of Committee for Nuclear Affairs of Asociacion Fisics Argentina. He was formerly Chairman of Association Fisica Argentina, Deputy Director of Instituto Balseiro, Head of Theory Division of Centro Atomico Bariloche.
• Suzanna VAN MOYLAND is Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher at the Verification Technology Information Center. Since joining VERTIC three years ago she has focused on verification of the CTBT, NPT and nuclear disarmament, and also North Korea. She is specializing in the International Atomic Energy Agency's Program to strengthen safeguards and make them more efficient (funded by the Ford Foundation). Prior to joining VERTIC she was Acting Director of the Council for Arms Control. She is also doing a Ph.D. in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, on Conflict Prevention Measures in the Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslavia).
• Vijai NAIR served in the Indian Army from December 1961 to 1991. He commanded an Independent Armoured Brigade and was appointed Deputy Director General Strategic Planning in the Directorate of Perspective Planning in Army Headquarters before retiring prematurely. His post Army work is directed to analyzing global nuclear polemics with a view to formulate nuclear strategy options for India. His civil education includes an MSc in Defense Studies (1986) and a Ph.D. in international relations (1992). Published works: (a) War in the Gulf: Lessons for the Third World - 1991 - book; (b) Nuclear India - 1992 - book; (c) NPT Extension Conference: Validity & Efficacy of Nuclear-Weapon-State's Initiative - 1995 - monograph. Books under publication: (a) The Armed Forces of India; (b) NPT Extension: Misplaced Euphoria. His numerous articles have been published in Journals and Newspapers in India and abroad. He represented the Forum as an NGO observer at the NPT Extension Conference, travelled to the US on invitation and interacted with a wide range of Institutions, Academia, Government and Military officials. He has presented papers at seminars and conferences in India and abroad. He is a member of the IISS (London), United Services Institute of India, Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis (Delhi) and Editorial Consultant for the Indian Defense Review.
• Bahig NASSAR is a coordinator at the Coordinating Center of Arab Peace Organizations in Egypt. He puts special effort in working together with European and American non-governmental organizations.
• Abdul H. NAYYAR is an associate professor of physics at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He has been at this university since obtaining Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 1973. His interest in the area of peace and security revolves around the issues of fissile material and missiles in South Asia.
• Goetz NEUNECK works with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg as a senior researcher. His main topics of research are: arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament. Publications in English about: Missile Proliferation and Arms Control in South Asia.
• NI Shixiong, is a professor of international relations and advisor of Ph.D. program of IR. He is also concurrently Vice-Chair of International Politics Department and Deputy Director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. He did post-doctoral research on IR at Harvard University (1980-81); made several lecture visits to the US as visiting professor. In the past 15 years, he also made frequent academic trips to the following countries (Canada, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden) and regions (Hong Kong and Taiwan). Professor Ni's publications include Selected Readings on American Schools of Thought in International Relations, Conflict and Cooperation - An Introduction to Western Strategies, etc. He translated some distinguished works from English into Chinese: Man, the State and War (Kenneth Waltz) and Contemporary Theories in International relations (Stanley Hoffmann). In addition, he has published over 50 papers and articles on international relations. Professor Ni is an Executive Member of Chinese Association of Asian and African Studies, Standing Executive Member of Chinese Association of American Studies, Standing Executive Member of Shanghai Association of International Relations and Vice President of Shanghai Association of International Strategic Studies.
• Dr. Reuven PEDATZUR lectures in security studies at the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He is a pilot in the Israel Air Force reserves, and he is also a defense analyst for Haaretz Daily. His recent publications include The Triumph of Embarrassment (Israel and the Territories, 1967-1969), Tel Aviv, Bitan, 1996; "The Israeli Perspective of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East", in Luiz Pinguelli and Suzana Kahn Ribeiro (eds.), The Non-Proliferation Treaty and Nuclear Disarmament, Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/UFRJ, 1997, pp. 117-122.
• Juergen SCHEFFRAN was be born in 1957 in Germany; Physics study at University Marburg; Physics-diploma 1983, Doctorate Degree 1989. Since 1988, he has been a researcher at IANUS, Darmstadt. His research areas include Science + Technology in Energy, Environment and Arms Control. He is a Co-founder of INESAP.
• SHEN Dingli is a phycist by training. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from Fudan University and did his post-doc in arms control at Princeton University. He co-founded and directs China's first university-based arms control program. His research area covers nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, including regions of South Asia and Northeast Asia, nuclear test ban, Chinese and American nuclear weapon policy, China's foreign and defense policy etc. He is currently the Director of Fudan University's Office of International Programs, Deputy Director of the University's Committee on Development and Research, and, Deputy Director of Fudan's Center for American Studies.
• Alice SLATER is the President of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), a founder of the Abolition 2000 Network for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and the governor of the Abolition Network's Working Group for the NPT. Ms. Slater, an attorney, serves on the Boards of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Lawyers Alliance for World Security.
• SUN Xiangli, with a specialty in nuclear physics, received her S.B. from Beijing University in 1990 and an MS from the Graduate School of the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) in Beijing in 1993. She has worked for Program for Science and National Security Studies at the institute since 1993. She spent the academic year of 1995-96 as a science fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control. Currently, she is a research fellow of the Arms Control Research Division at the IAPCM.
• Jinzaburo TAKAGI is Executive Director of Citizens Nuclear Information Centre (CNIC) since 1986. He was born 1938 in Gumma, Japan. He graduated in 1961 from the Faculty of Science, Tokyo University, specialized in nuclear chemistry. From 1961 to 1975 he worked at Toshiba, Institute for Nuclear Study (University of Tokyo), Tokyo Metropolitan University and the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In 1975 he joined the foundation of CNIC.
• TANG Xinqing is a senior research fellow of China Nuclear Information Center.
• Jonathan B. TUCKER, Ph.D., directs the Chemical & Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, USA. He received a B.S. in biology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a concentration in defense and arms control studies. Prior to joining the CNS in March 1996, he worked at the US Department of State, the US Congress - Office of Technology Assessment, the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. In 1993-95, he served on the US delegation to the Preparatory Commission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He also served on a biological weapons inspection team in Baghdad, Iran, under the auspices of the United Nations Special Commission.
• WANG Haibo, Lieutenant, is a postgraduate in the National Defense University of the PLA (NDU). Wang joined the Army in 1989, graduated from the Nanjing Political Institute of the PLA and obtained the Bachelor Degree of Law. Wang once worked in the Military Economic Institute. At the present, he is studying in the NDU for the Master Degree. He majors in the Military Strategic Situation in Asia-Pacific Area, Disarmament and Arms Control and American Global Military Strategy.
• Hiromichi UMEBAYASHI (Yokohama, Japan) is currently International Coordinator of PCDS (Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security) and Chairperson of Preparatory Committee of Peace Resources Cooperative, Japan, which is to be launched in November, 1997. He holds a Ph. D. in applied physics from Tokyo University. His book on the U.S. Forces in Japan has been honored in 1993 by Japan Congress of Journalists Prize.
• XIA Liping is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Department of American Studies, Shanghai Institute for International Studies. He is also a Guest Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Studies under the PRC State Council and a Colonel (PLA Reserve). He specializes in Asia-Pacific security and arms control. From 1989 to September 1996, he was a Research Fellow and Associate Professor and Colonel at the Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Beijing. He got his Master Degree of International Relations from PLA Foreign Language University in 1988. Some of his published books are: "International Arms Control and Disarmament", "US Nuclear Weapons and Strategy" and "World Military Trends".
• XU Jian was born in 1962. He is a Senior Research Fellow of China Center for International Studies and a member of CSCAP China. He is a specialist on international security and strategic issues and has published tens of reports and articles in this field. He was assigned a Ph.D. degree in international relations by University of Bristol.
• WANG Ling graduated from the Department of Journalism of Fudan University, had been a reporter for lots of years. She set out to be engaged in the study of the foreign affairs of Western Europe and post-war Euro-American relations in early 1980s. Later on she returned to the study of major powers' relations and took up the research of the issues of international arms control and disarmament in the early 1990s. Now she is the research professor of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations and part-time doctoral student's advisor of Peking Foreign Affairs College.
• WU Chunsi is a staff member of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. She got her MA degree from the Department of International Politics, Fudan University, in July 1997. Her research work mainly focuses on missile defense, East Asia security, and energy and environment. She also has interests in proliferation issue in Sino-US relations, security on Korean Peninsula and South Asia situation.
• WU Jun graduated from Nanjing University in 1982. From 1982, he has been employed by Institute of Applied Physics & Computational Mathematics (IAPCM). From 1982 to 1985, he was engaged in study of numerical simulation on hydrodynamics and neutron transportation, and atomic physics as well. From 1989 to 1991, he worked at Ispra Establishment of European Joint Research Center, Italy, and researched the safety, reliability analyses and thermohydraulics analysis on the blanket of fusion reactors. After coming back from JRC in 1991, he devoted his research to the design of fusion-fission reactor's blanket. From 1994, he has turned his research field of interest to the arms control.
• ZENG Wenping received an MS in nuclear physics from Lanzhou University in 1995. He has been working in Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (ISPCM) since September 1995. In 1995 and 1996 he did some research on fission-fusion hybrid reactor. In late 1996 he shifted his work to arms control study, and joined the Arms Control Division in IAPCM in early 1997. Currently he is doing research on on-site inspection technique of CTBT.
• Senior Colonel ZHU Chenghu, a research fellow in the Institute for Strategic Studies of National Defense University, and a graduate from the College of International Relations of Military College and National Defense University, has been teaching and researching in the university since 1974. He worked as a visiting fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the US National Defense University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is quite prolific in publishing. He has published nearly a hundred papers on security issues and is a major contributor to several books. His forthcoming book "Sino-US Relations into the New Century" and "The World Strategic Structure and the Relations between Big Powers into 21st Century" will hopefully come off the press by the end of this year. His research field includes China's defense policy, military strategy, arms control and security cooperation. Presently his is working on arms control and security issues in Asian-Pacific region.
• ZHU Qiangguo has been a researcher of the Program on Arms Control and Disarmament at the China Defense Science and Technology Information Center since 1994; and is currently the Deputy Director of this Program. His research interests include nuclear weapon policy, cutoff of fissile material production, confidence-building measures in the Asia-Pacific region etc.
• ZHUANG Jianzhong is a research fellow of Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies, majoring in international affairs, the whole world situation, the political framework of the US-China relations, and recently, nonproliferation as well.