Speaker: Philip Taubman, Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, former Moscow and Washington Bureau Chief for the New York Times
2011 Lecture Series
Date: October 11, 2011
Irreverent Reminiscences of US/USSR Arms Control Talks in the 70's: Ideas, Personalities, Bureaucracies, Blunders
Speaker: Charles Zemach, US Arms Control Agency and State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1970-1976 (consultant 1976-1980), LANL Theoretical Division, 1976-1993, UC Berkeley, 1958-1970
Date: July 28, 2011
Contemporary U.S. Nuclear Policy and Strategy Debate
Speaker: Andrew L. Ross, Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico, Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Policy
Date: April 28, 2011
Update on Arms Control and the Recent Carnegie Conference
Speakers: George Chandler, Cheryl Rofer, and Jim Bradbury, LACACIS members and retired LANL staff scientists who attended the 2011 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference
2010 Lecture Series
Date: October 19, 2010
Nuclear Weapons, Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Joseph C. Martz, Senior Staff Advisor to the LANL Principal Associate Director for Weapon Programs, and 2009 inaugural William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
Special Membership Meeting to Adopt a LACACIS Position Statement in Support of the Ratification of New START
Date: May 26, 2010
Non-Proliferation Features of a Los Alamos Subcritical Reactor Demo
Speakers: Charles D. Bowman, President, ADNA Corporation, Los Alamos, and R. Bruce Vogelaar, Professor of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Date: April 13, 2010
New START and Beyond
Speaker: Ambassador Linton F. Brooks, now an independent consultant on national security; Chief U.S. Negotiator for the recently expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I); former Administrator (2002-2007) of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) responsible for U.S. nuclear weapons and international nonproliferation programs
2009 Lecture Series
Date: December 9, 2009
Remembering Louis Rosen: His Arms Control Legacy and National Security Leadership
Speakers: John Hopkins, former leader of LANL weapons programs and a former Director of LANL's Center for National Security Studies (CNSS); Paul White, former leader of the Laboratory's National Security Office and a former Director of CNSS; Molly Cernicek, former member of the LANL Center for International Security Affairs; and David Thomson, former member of CNSS and co-founder of LACACIS
Date: October 8, 2009
An Overview of Nuclear Material Smuggling
Speaker: Dana Weant, retired Foreign Service Officer
Date: August 13, 2009
Discussion of nuclear reprocessing and international policy
Speaker: Ivan Oelrich, Acting President, Federation of American Scientists
Date: May 21, 2009
Iran: The Country and its Nuclear Program
Speaker: Arvid Lundy, LANL Retiree and Consultant on Nuclear Proliferation Issues
Date: February 25, 2009
Nuclear Policy in the Obama Administration: Continuity or Change?
Speaker: Joseph F. Pilat, Executive Advisor, LANL National Security Office; Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Nonproliferation Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2008 Lecture Series
Date: September 30, 2008
Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Can Capability Substitute for Weapons?
Speaker: Joe Martz, Senior Staff, Principal Associate Directorate for Nuclear Weapons at LANL
Offense, Defense and Arms Control - The Future and the Challenges
Speaker: O'Dean Judd, A former chief scientist of the Strategic Defense Initiative Missile Defense Program in Washington, D.C. and retired LANL scientist
