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The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, Federation of American Scientists & the Bipartisan Security Group
Invite you to briefings
The New START Treaty: What Next for the Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Senate Dirksen G11
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1 pm – 2:00 pm, Rayburn B340
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Hans Bethe Center, 322 Fourth St. NE
With
Ambassador Robert Grey
Director, Bipartisan Security Group
Former US Representative to the
Conference on Disarmament from 1998-2001
Ivan Oelrich, Ph. D.
Acting President, Federation of American Scientists
Former Senior Analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment
Ralph Hutchison
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
In
2006, the Bush Administration unveiled a plan for the nuclear weapons
complex that included large financial investments in facilities that
supported production of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW).
Congress will soon debate ratification of a follow-on to the Strategic
Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that will further reduce the nuclear
stockpiles of Russia and the United States. Even though Congress and
the Obama administration have rejected RRW, there are some who want to
connect treaty ratification to support for the construction of new
facilities that expand U.S. nuclear warhead production capability.
This
panel will address whether new facilities are necessary and how they
might impact fiscal, nonproliferation, and security priorities under
the Obama administration.
Lunch Provided: Please RSVP to Dan
Yoken, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability at Dyoken@ananuclear.org or
202-544-0217 ext. 2501.
Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr Director,
Bipartisan Security Group: was the former US Representative to the
Conference on Disarmament from 1998-2001. Ambassador Grey was a Senior
Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations and Counselor for Political
Affairs of the US Mission to the United Nations in New York from
1986-1995. He was the Political Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander
at NATO from 1983-1986. He also served as Acting Deputy Director for
the Arms Control Agency from 1981-1983. Before holding these posts,
Ambassador Grey was the Political-Military Affair's Bureau Deputy
Office Director in the Office of Military Sales and Assistance,
Director of the State Departments Office of Advanced Technology, and
Executive Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Political
Affairs. He joined the Foreign Service in 1960 and briefly left the
Service to serve as Administrative Assistant to Senator Alan Cranston
(D-CA), founder of the Global Security Institute. He continues to serve
as a consultant to the State Department and the CIA. He received a BA
from Dartmouth College in 1957 and a JD from the University of Michigan
in 1960.
Ivan Oelrich, Ph.D. is the Acting President of
the Federation of American Scientists. At a 21 July meeting, the Board
of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists appointed Ivan
Oelrich, the Vice President of the Strategic Security Program, as
Acting President of FAS. Mr. Oelrich has worked at the Institute for
Defense Analyses (IDA where he evaluated new technologies for defense
applications, and supported the START and INF Treaty negotiations. He
was a senior analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment, an agency
of the U.S. Congress where he investigated the needs of the military
industrial base and wrote a treatise on friendly fire prompted by
experience in the Persian Gulf War. Mr. Oelrich has done extensive
research on emerging nuclear threats at the Advanced Systems and
Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency where he
supported General Shalikashvili's review of the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty. Oelrich received his BS from the University of Chicago and a
Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in chemistry. He was a
pre-doctoral Research Associate at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. He also conducted research in nuclear physics and taught in
the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich in Germany
Ralph Hutchison
has been coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
since 1991. He served as pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church in
Dandridge, Tennessee from 1985 - 2006. He served on an EPA federal
advisory committee which made recommendations about cleaning up federal
Superfund sites and on the state of Tennessee's steering committee for
the Oak Ridge Health Study. Mr Hutchison went to Erskine College in
South Carolina and then to Union Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.
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