Challenges and Opportunities for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Third Conference of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation

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

List of topics and talks

Monday, September 8, 1997

Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)

Prospects for negotiations on nuclear disarmament
Rebecca Johnson

Incremental-comprehensive approaches to NWC negotiations
Jürgen Scheffran

Nuclear Weapons Convention
Merav Datan

Some considerations on the NWC
Wu Jun

Consequences from the advisory opinion of the World Court of Justice

What is meant by "the very survival of a state"?
David Krieger

Future role of nuclear weapons
Xu Jian

Security without nuclear weapons
Praful Bidwai

Security without nuclear weapons
Zhuang Jianzhong

Rethinking nuclear non-proliferation

The role and limit of the current non-proliferation regimes
Wang Ling

Obstacles to non-proliferation
Zhu Chenghu

Nuclear ethics and non-proliferation regimes
Ni Shixiong

The NPT Review Process:
Seizing the opportunity for abolition in Geneva next spring
Alice Slater

Lessons from Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions

Lessons from the Biological and Chemical Weapons conventions for a future ban on nuclear weapons
Jonathan B. Tucker

The CWC and its lessons for the future NWC
Deng Hongmei

How to draw further states into the disarmament process

How to draw some nuclear-weapon states and threshold countries into the disarmament process
Luis Masperi

Multilateralising the nuclear disarmament process:
a UK perspective
Owen Greene

Arms Control and security in South Asia
Han Hua

US global strategy to maintain world order.
The role of NATO and US Central Command
Bahig Nassar

Special reference to the ambivalent/threshold states
Praful Bidwai

Working groups

Middle East
(INESAP 1998 Conference in Jordan etc.)

Roundtable on problems and challenges facing the Abolition 2000 Campaign in different countries

Tuesday, September 9, 1997

Verification of nuclear disarmament

Some challenges in the verification of nuclear disarmament
Sun Xiangli

Security and verification of nuclear disarmament:
The case of missiles
Jürgen Scheffran

Implications of the IAEA's new Additional Protocol for Nuclear Disarmament
Suzanna van Moyland

Safety control - The integration of enforcement and verification
Martin Kalinowski

Nuclear Weapon States

Nuclear weapon states: Commitment to Nuclear Disarmament as enshrined in arms control arrangements: Reality or myth
Vijai Nair

Prospect and implication of START III
Xia Liping

START III and beyond
Huang Zuwei

The further reduction of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems
Liu Erxun

Nuclear Weapons Free Zones (NWFZ)

Establishment of a cooperative integrated monitoring system for a Middle East WMDFZ
Fawzy Hussein Hammad

US nuclear policy: a retreat toward barbarism.
Its impact on a NWFZ in the Middle East
Bahig Nassar

Northeast Asia NWFZ: recent development and analysis
Hiro Umebayashi

Ending nuclear weapon research and development

Nuclear testing; the next generation: why "Stockpile Stewardship" is fundamentally incompatible with a Comprehensive Test Ban and nuclear disarmament process
Jacqueline Cabasso

No-First-Use Treaty

Next steps: beyond the CTBT
Liu Huaqiu

The relevance of No-First-Use
Shen Dingli

Verifiability of No-First-Use
Zeng Wenping

Relations to arms control of conventional weapons

Relations to Conventional Weapons Conventions
Marco Martinez-Negrete

Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Issues in Asia

Nuclear energy and proliferation in Asia
Surendra Gadekar

A regional compact for the peaceful use of nuclear energy in East Asia
Jor-Shan Choi

Civil plutonium program and Asia
Jinzaburo Takagi

Plutonium program in Korea
Lee Pil Ryul

Update on fissile material production and missiles race in South Asia
Abdul Nayyar

Ballistic missile defense, counter-proliferation and the future of the ABM treaty

Ballistic missile defenses in the Middle East - A contribution to the stability in the region?
Reuven Pedatzur

TMD and Regional Security in Northeast Asia
Huang Zuwei

Ballistic missile defense and East Asian security
Wu Chunsi

Ballistic missile defenses and deep nuclear reductions
George Lewis

The counterproliferation strategy and NATO
Goetz Neuneck

Future perspectives for the cut-off agreement

Linkages between nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in a cut-off agreement
Martin Kalinowski

Comment on fissile material cut-off
Zhu Qiangguo

Burning of MOX fuel for excess weapon plutonium disposition: some comments related to technical and nonproliferation aspect
Abdel Gawad Emara

Disposition of excess weapons plutonium: An alternative to MOX-burning and vitrification
Allison Macfarlane

Elimination versus disposal option for plutonium
Wolfgang Liebert

Wednesday, September 10, 1997

Closing plenary sessions:
Planning of future activities

Actions and activities for abolition of nuclear weapons:
The role of NGO's and abolition 2000
Reiner Braun

Some conclusions of the conference and plans for future work of INESAP General Discussion Martin Kalinowski

Final discussion

Closing remarks
Dingli Shen