Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "Arms Control: the Burden of Changes". Rome, June 4-5, 2019
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(ROME, June 5, 2019) The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe held a conference in Rome to discuss Arms Control: the Burden of Changes.
Leading experts in nuclear arms reduction, control and non-proliferation from the United States, Russia, France, Sweden, Canada, Brazil, Australia and other countries, addressed the most important and pressing nuclear security issues, including possibility to maintain arms control in the absence of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, preserving strategic arms control after 2021, and sustainability of strategic and regional stability. The participants focused on sufficiency of the existing standards and mechanisms to prevent the collapse of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), new threats, and measures to counteract nuclear terrorism in light of upcoming 2020 NPT Review Conference.
The conference brought together heads of the five major international organizations engaged in studying nuclear arms control issues: the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Global Zero, the Russian International Affairs Council and James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
“I believe that the unprecedented intellectual potential that our conference brings together is capable of achieving a breakthrough to prevent a nuclear catastrophe from happening,” President of the Luxembourg Forum Dr. Viatcheslav Kantor said. “Implementing our proposals also pursues the goal of ensuring the success of the 2020 NPT Review Conference.”
The participants assessed positively the results of negotiations on a five-year extension of the existing Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) as it is mutually beneficial for both parties.
“If the treaty is extended, we can hope that within five years the parties will find ways to preserve the principles of strategic stability based on drafting a follow-up START treaty. It would make sense to focus first on drafting a new treaty between the U.S. and Russia and then to examine possibilities for involving China in one form or another,” emphasized Dr. Kantor.
The Luxembourg Forum experts discussed and analyzed several scenarios for the possible consequences of the INF Treaty collapse, from “mild” deployment of non-nuclear cruise missiles only in NATO countries and in Russia, to full-scale deployment of nuclear-armed cruise and ballistic missiles.
“The INF treaty was probably the most significant arms control treaty ever negotiated, in that it eliminated a whole class of missiles, the intermediate range missiles, thereby removing a dangerous threat to all of Europe, including European Russia”, noted the former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense and a member of the Luxembourg Forum Supervisory Board William Perry. “And it appears that the Trump administration intends to let New START expire in 2020, rather than extend it, or negotiate a follow on treaty. If that happens, there will be, for the first time in almost fifty years, no agreed limit on nuclear weapons; and there will be no bilateral talks underway on how to limit nuclear dangers. This has become the new normal for arms control treaties, which I call the new abnormal, and it has happened in just two years.”
The conference participants paid special attention to the threat of nuclear terrorism remaining as high as ever despite a high level of international cooperation in this area and a whole range of measures to counteract this threat both at the national and global levels.
“We have studied in depth and discussed on many occasions at our conferences the likely scenarios by which terrorists could acquire and use nuclear materials. We propose establishing a global international system to control movements of radioactive materials using universal hardware and software systems that can detect illicit movements of these materials. In addition, we propose establishing an international coordination center or headquarters in Europe, where representatives, the relevant ministries and intelligence services of the major powers could work together on a permanent basis,” President of Luxembourg Forum said.
Participants of the conference noted that the system of standing contact groups in the relations of the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and Russia, that operated at the highest and other levels and included ministers, scientists, military experts and political analysts, no longer exists, and that the consequences of this are unpredictable. The revival of this system is a top priority.
As the outcome of the conference, the Luxembourg Forum experts prepared the final declaration containing their specific proposals and recommendations to the major international organizations and leaders of major powers to strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime and international nuclear security.
The conference in Rome was attended by Dr. Viatcheslav Kantor; Professor at Stanford University, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense William Perry; President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Sérgio Duarte; President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (United States) Joan Rohlfing; Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin; leading researcher at the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, former Chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Missile Forces, Esin Victor; President of the Russian International Affairs Council, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov; senior research scholar at Princeton University, co-founder of the Global Zero initiative Bruce Blair; Director of James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey William Potter; Professor at the University of Maryland, member of the Luxembourg Forum Supervisory Board, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences Roald Sagdeev; Chancellor of the Australian National University, former Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gareth Evans; Consulting Advisor for Policy and Outreach at the Office of Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Tariq Rauf; Ambassador, member of the Luxembourg Forum Supervisory Board Rolf Ekeus; Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ambassador Linton Brooks; Emeritus Board Member at the Nuclear Threat Initiative Pierre Lellouche; Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, Columbia University, Robert Legvold; Director and Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Eugene Rumer; Director of the International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, of the International Security magazine; Member of the Board of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Steven Miller; associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Mark Fitzpatrick; member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, Counsellor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative John Carlson; Executive Director of the Arms Control Association Daryl Kimball; Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum, principal researcher at the Center for International Security of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science, former Director of the 4th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Vladimir Dvorkin; Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum, Head of Section for Military-Political Analysis, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Sergey OZNOBISHCHEV.
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The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophewas established pursuant to a resolution of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe held in Luxembourg on May 24 and 25, 2007. It is one of the major non-governmental organizations bringing together leading international experts on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, arms reduction and limitation.
The Forum’s priorities are:
- To facilitate the process of arms limitation and reduction and to counteract growing threats to the nuclear non-proliferation regime and erosion of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), including the escalating danger of nuclear terrorism and attempts by certain states to gain access to nuclear materials and technologies
- To promote international peace and security through new approaches and to provide decision-makers with practical solutions to critical issues of non-proliferation and arms control.
In 2017, the Luxembourg Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary. Over 10 years, the Luxembourg Forum has held nearly thirty conferences, seminars and workshops in Moscow, Washington D.C., Luxembourg, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Paris, Prague, Geneva, Brussels, Warsaw, Stockholm, and other cities.
Based on the results of each event, the experts prepare declarations listing specific proposals and recommendations on ways to resolve critical situations. These declarations are distributed to the heads of leading states, the UN, the IAEA and other international organizations that show their interest in the Forum's findings and provide regular feedback. The members of the Forum’s Supervisory Board provide annual assessments of its performance and set urgent goals for further analysis.
PROGRAM
Conference of the International Luxembourg Forumon Preventing Nuclear CatastropheArmsСontrol: Burden of Change
(June 4-5, 2019, The St. Regis Rome,Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 3, Rome, Italy)
June 4(Tuesday) | |
10:00 – 10:30 | Opening of the Conference (Ritz Ballroom) Chairman – VladimirDvorkin, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum, Professor (Russia). Viatcheslav Kantor, President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, Ph.D. (Russia). Keynote address William Perry, Professor at the Stanford University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). Reimagining Nuclear Security Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operating Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative. |
10:30 – 12:00 | First Session(Ritz Ballroom) Possibilities for Preserving Arms Control in the Absence of the INF Treaty Chairman – VladimirDvorkin, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum, Professor (Russia). Is There Any Chance to Save the INF Treaty? Daryl Kimball,Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (USA). Alexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum, Academician, RAS (Russia). Is It Possible to Prevent an Arms Race with Intermedium-Range Systems in Europe and Asia in the Absence of the INF Treaty? Bruce Blair,Research Scholar at the Princeton University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). VladimirDvorkin, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum, Professor (Russia). |
12:15 – 13:45 | Continuation of the First Session(Ritz Ballroom) Is it Possible to Maintain Strategic Arms Control After 2021? (are there any chances in the next 2-3 years to conclude a new START treaty or to maintain restrictions and individual transparency measures without it?) Viktor Esin,Leading Researcher at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies RAS, Colonel General, ret., Ph.D. (Russia). Linton Brooks, Nonresident Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (USA). Discussion [on the subject of the session as well as on the following topics: the impact of new weapon systems on strategic stability (hypersonic and undersea autonomous nuclear drones; miniaturization of nuclear devices and limited nuclear war; non-militarization of space; cyber warfare] |
15:00 – 18:00 | Second Session(Ritz Ballroom) Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Catastrophic Terrorism Chairman – Alexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum, Academician, RAS (Russia). The Sufficiency of Existing Norms and Mechanisms to Prevent the Collapse of the NPT (the stability of the NPT after the denunciation of the INF, the adoption of the TPNW, and the breakdown of the JCPoA) Tariq Rauf, Consulting Adviser for Policy and Outreach at the Office of Executive Secretary at the CTBTO, Ph.D. (Сanada). Steven Miller, Director of the International Security Program and Member of the Board of Directors at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard University, Ph.D. (USA). |
New Threats Related to the Danger of Nuclear Terrorism (nuclear terrorism after the defeat of ISIS in Syria; proliferation of nuclear materials, technologies and expertise) William Potter, Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Professor of Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). Mark Fitzpatrick, Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (USA). TPNW Factor at the 2020 NPT Review Conference John Carlson,Member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network (Australia). General Discussion | |
June 5(Wednesday) | |
10:00 – 11:15 | Third Session(Ritz Ballroom) The Imperative of Cooperation Between Russia and the United States Chairman – Sergey Oznobishchev, Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum, Professor at MGIMO-University (Russia). Igor Ivanov, President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Corresponding Member, RAS (Russia). Discussion |
11:30– 13:00 | Fourth Session(Ritz Ballroom) Discussion on the Final Document Chairman – Alexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum, Academician, RAS (Russia). |
14:15– 15:30 | Continuation of the Fourth Session(Ritz Ballroom) |
List of Participants
Conference of the International Luxembourg Forumon Preventing Nuclear CatastropheArms Сontrol: Burden of Change
(June 4-5, 2019, The St. Regis Rome, Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 3)
Viatcheslav KANTOR | President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, Ph.D. (Russia). | |||
Alexey ARBATOV | Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum; Head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (former Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation); Academician, RAS (Russia). | |||
Linton BROOKS | Non-resident Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ambassador (former Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration) (USA). | |||
Bruce BLAIR | Co-Founder of Global Zero International Movement; Research Scholar, Princeton University; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). | |||
John CARLSON | Мember of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, Counsellor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (former Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, Chairman of the Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation, International Atomic Energy Agency) (Australia). | |||
Sergio | President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs,Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ambassador (former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs) (Brazil). | |||
Vladimir DVORKIN | Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum; Principal Researcher at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (former Director of the 4th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation); Full Member of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, of the Russian Engineering Academy, of the International Engineering Academy, of the Academy of Military Sciences, of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Astronautics; Professor, Ph.D.; Major General (retired) (Russia). | |||
Rolf EKEUS | Ambassador, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE; Chairman of the Governing Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) (Sweden). | |||
Victor ESIN | Leading Researcher, Institute for the US and Canadian Studies Russian Academy of Sciences; Leading Researcher, World Policy Faculty, Moscow State University (former Chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Missile Forces); Professor, Ph.D.; Colonel General (retired) (Russia). | |||
Gareth EVANS | Chancellor of the Australian National University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Member of the Senate and the House of Representatives; Minister of Foreign Affairs) (Australia). | |||
Mark FITZPATRICK | Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (former Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies – Americas) (USA). | |||
Igor IVANOV | President of the Russian International Affairs Council; Professor at MGIMO (University), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation); Corresponding Member, RAS (Russia). | |||
Daryl | Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, Ph.D. (USA). | |||
Robert LEGVOLD | Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Ph.D. (USA). | |||
Vladimir LUKIN | Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; President, Russian Paralympic Committee; Professor, National Research University – Higher School of Economics; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Commissioner on Human Rights for the Russian Federation; Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America); Ph.D. (Russia). | |||
Pierre LELLOUCHE | Emeritus Board Member at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (former Member of the French Parliament, French Special Representative for Afghanistan-Pakistan, Minister of State for Europe and Minister of State for Foreign Trade), Ph.D. (France). | |||
Steven MILLER | Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security magazine; Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Ph.D. (USA). | |||
Sergey OZNOBISHCHEV | Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum; Head of Section for Military-Political Analysis, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Director, Institute for Strategic Assessments; Professor at MGIMO (University), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Full Member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Astronautics; Ph.D. (Russia). | |||
William PERRY | Professor at the Stanford University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former US Secretary of Defense), Ph.D. (USA). | |||
William POTTER | Director, James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies; Professor of Non-Proliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). | |||
Tariq RAUF | Consulting Advisor for Policy and Outreach, Office of Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO); Principal, Global Nuclear Solutions (Former Director, Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Program, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Head of the Verification and Security Policy Coordination Office of International Atomic Energy Agency); Ph.D. (Canada). | |||
Joan | President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) (USA). | |||
Eugene RUMER | Director and Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (former National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the US National Intelligence Council), Ph.D. (USA). | |||
Roald SAGDEEV | Distinguished Professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland; Director Emeritus, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum; Academician, RAS (Russia/USA). | |||
Observers | ||||
| Head of the Secretariat of the Russian Paralympic Committee (Russia). | |||
Daria SELEZNEVA | Consultant of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum (Russia). |
The Doomsday Clock on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 2018
was set at two minutes to midnight – for the first time after the end of the Cold War
Arms Control: Burden of Change
The Final Document of the Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe
Rome, June 5, 2019
The June 4-5 Conference in Rome included the heads of a number of world-renowned international organizations, dedicated to arms control and non-proliferation – the Arms Control Association, Global Zero, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the Russian International Affairs Council, and the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN).
All participants are unanimous in their profound concern at the continuing degradation of strategic stability due to the obvious disintegration of the arms control regimes and the accelerating development of new types of nuclear weapons.
The main manifestations of this crisis are the impending termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019, and growing uncertainty related to the future of the New START and the feasibility of a START follow-on after 2021. The viability of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on curtailment and transparency of the Iranian nuclear program is in grave doubt, with the ensuing risk of yet another armed conflict in the Middle East. There is an increasing possibility that the 2020 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) Review Conference will not conclude with an agreed plan of action to strengthen the NPT, with the risk of undermining the integrity of the nuclear non-proliferation regime as a whole.
Worse, this degradation of strategic stability combined with the unraveling of major arms control treaties coincides with the accumulation of major crises and wars throughout the planet, which have the potential for uncontrolled escalation and incalculable risks. The dangers of nuclear catastrophe are currently higher than at any time during the Cold War. The primary danger is not deliberate use of nuclear weapons by any state, but blundering into war through human error, system error, miscommunication or miscalculation, with these risks compounded by new cyber technology. The analogy with the past is not World War II but World War I. With the weapons of that day – machine guns and poison gas – 25 million people were killed. With the nuclear weapons of today, hundreds of millions would be killed, and life on this planet as we know it would be destroyed.
In contrast to the declarations made by the leaderships of the most powerful nations of their desire to avoid an arms race, in fact these nations are gradually becoming involved in nuclear and conventional, offensive and defensive, regional and global, space and cyber arms races. This will encourage further proliferation of nuclear arms and increase the risk of these falling into the hands of terrorist organizations.
For all the complexities of the evolving world order and advanced military technologies, a crucial contribution to this dire situation is the low priority given to arms control by the authorities of the leading nations and their pursuit of destabilizing innovative weapon systems. What is most evident is the unforgivable underestimation of the dangers of the forthcoming uncontrolled, multinational and multifacetous arms race, replacing half a century of nuclear arms control.
In view of these dangerous developments we urge the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation to prevent the termination of the INF Treaty by urgently negotiating appropriate methods of on-site inspections for removing mutual suspicions of Treaty non-compliance. While such talks proceed, both sides should agree on a moratorium on deployment of weapon systems which are prohibited by the INF Treaty. In parallel, they should initiate talks with China and other nuclear-armed states on effective nuclear risk reduction and arms control measures.
In order to sustain strategic stability, we appeal to the US and Russian leaderships to extend New START for five years beyond 2021 and to commence talks on a follow-on START treaty, which should cover traditional and qualitatively new strategic weapon systems and apply realistic counting rules and reliable verification methods.
With the goal of enhancing the NPT we strongly recommend to the leaderships of the five nuclear-weapon states to apply all efforts to ensure the success of the 2020 Review Conference. Saving the INF Treaty and New START are the first crucial steps towards this goal. The second step would be to preserve the Iran JCPOA, which requires that all parties meet their nuclear and sanctions relief commitments under the deal. The third step should be achieving some progress on the weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-free zone in the Middle East. The fourth is to start a constructive dialogue between nuclear-armed states and non-nuclear-armed states – including the parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – focusing on practical risk reduction measures including de-alerting, reduced deployments, decreasing stockpiles, and no first use.
Of utmost importance for the enhancement of the global nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear security regime is for all responsible states to further strengthen international treaties and conventions to deter and combat the threat of nuclear terrorism, which requires greater cooperation to achieve the full implementation and universality of relevant international legal instruments. This indisputably is one of the key areas where the national interests of all states converge to ensure security of nuclear materials and facilities. In this context it is vital for the US and Russia to intensify their cooperation to combat nuclear terrorism.
To provide better organizational capacity for strengthening collective efforts we propose the establishment of an international coordination center located in Europe, with a specific mandate on combating the risks of nuclear terrorism. Such a center could involve the participation, on a permanent basis, of representatives from relevant national institutions of states parties with competence in the field of protection and security of radioactive and nuclear materials as well as of nuclear facilities, and could include a capacity for recourse to emergency response forces.
The conference participants noted that the system of contact groups on the highest and other levels, involving ministers, researchers, the military and political scientists, that operated continuously between the two nuclear superpowers, US and Russia, has been disrupted, and this could result in unpredictable consequences. It should be a priority to restore this system.
The conference participants recommend that the Russian Federation and the United States adopt a new declaration reconfirming their belief that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. Such a declaration has been emphasized by the Luxembourg Forum during the last several years. Under the present circumstances adopting this declaration would serve as a good starting point to move along the “road map” for addressing the issues identified by this conference of the Luxembourg Forum.
The participants of the Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe:
Viatcheslav KANTOR | President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, Ph.D. (Russia). | |
Alexey ARBATOV | Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum; Head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (former Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation); Academician, RAS (Russia). | |
Linton BROOKS | Non-resident Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ambassador (former Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration) (USA). | |
Bruce BLAIR | Co-Founder of Global Zero International Movement; Research Scholar, Princeton University; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). | |
John CARLSON | Мember of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, Counsellor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (former Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, Chairman of the Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation, International Atomic Energy Agency) (Australia). | |
Sergio | President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs,Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ambassador (former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs) (Brazil). | |
Vladimir DVORKIN | Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum; Principal Researcher at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (former Director of the 4th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation); Full Member of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, of the Russian Engineering Academy, of the International Engineering Academy, of the Academy of Military Sciences, of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Astronautics; Professor, Ph.D.; Major General (retired) (Russia). | |
Rolf EKEUS | Ambassador, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE; Chairman of the Governing Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) (Sweden). | |
Victor ESIN | Leading Researcher, Institute for the US and Canadian Studies Russian Academy of Sciences; Leading Researcher, World Policy Faculty, Moscow State University (former Chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Missile Forces); Professor, Ph.D.; Colonel General (retired) (Russia). | |
Gareth EVANS | Chancellor of the Australian National University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Member of the Senate and the House of Representatives; Minister of Foreign Affairs) (Australia). | |
Mark FITZPATRICK | Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (former Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies – Americas) (USA). | |
Igor IVANOV | President of the Russian International Affairs Council; Professor at MGIMO (University), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation); Corresponding Member, RAS (Russia). | |
Daryl | Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, Ph.D. (USA). | |
Robert LEGVOLD | Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Ph.D. (USA). | |
Vladimir LUKIN | Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; President, Russian Paralympic Committee; Professor, National Research University – Higher School of Economics; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Commissioner on Human Rights for the Russian Federation; Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America); Ph.D. (Russia). | |
Pierre LELLOUCHE | Emeritus Board Member at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (former Member of the French Parliament, French Special Representative for Afghanistan-Pakistan, Minister of State for Europe and Minister of State for Foreign Trade), Ph.D. (France). | |
Steven MILLER | Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security magazine; Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Ph.D. (USA). | |
Sergey OZNOBISHCHEV | Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Luxembourg Forum; Head of Section for Military-Political Analysis, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Director, Institute for Strategic Assessments; Professor at MGIMO (University), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Full Member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Astronautics; Ph.D. (Russia). | |
William PERRY | Professor at the Stanford University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former US Secretary of Defense), Ph.D. (USA). | |
William POTTER | Director, James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies; Professor of Non-Proliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (USA). | |
Tariq RAUF | Consulting Advisor for Policy and Outreach, Office of Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO); Principal, Global Nuclear Solutions (Former Director, Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Program, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Head of the Verification and Security Policy Coordination Office of International Atomic Energy Agency); Ph.D. (Canada). | |
Joan | President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) (USA). | |
Eugene RUMER | Director and Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (former National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the US National Intelligence Council), Ph.D. (USA). | |
Roald SAGDEEV | Distinguished Professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland; Director Emeritus, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum; Academician, RAS (Russia/USA). |