Arms Control Experts Meet on Capitol Hill to Review President's Non-Proliferation Proposals
April 27, 2004
Capitol Hill
Washington, DC

In response to the President's non-proliferation proposals announced in February, the House Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation, in cooperation with the Global Security Institute's Bipartisan Security Group, hosted a high-level panel discussion on Capitol Hill April 27, 2004 on the theme: "Seven Sound Strategies? The President's Non-Proliferation Proposals." Following the panel, discussions were held with Members of Congress.

Addressing the crowd of House staffers, panelists Ambassador Henrik Salander, Secretary General of the recently launched Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission; Dr. Ivan Oelrich, a security analyst at the Federation of American Scientists; and Ambassador Jonathan Dean, an advisor on arms control and international security issues at the Union of Concerned Scientists, discussed the viability of the proposals in the context of the current state of the international non-proliferation regime. Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., chairman of the Bipartisan Security Group, moderated the discussion.

Ambassador Henrik Salander is the Secretary General of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission chaired by Hans Blix, and from 1999 to 2003 was Sweden's representative to the Conference on Disarmament. (Go to Speech)

Ambassador Jonathan Dean is presently an advisor on arms control and international security issues at the Union of Concerned Scientists and previously served as U.S. representative to the NATO-Warsaw Pact force reduction negotiations in Vienna from 1973 to 1981. (Go to Speech)

Dr. Ivan Oelrich, a chemist and nuclear physicist, is currently with the Strategic Security Project at the Federation of American Scientists and has worked at the Institute for Defense Analysis, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. (Go to Speech)

Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., Chairman of the Bipartisan Security Group, was formerly U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament and Leader of the State Department UN Reform Team. (Go to Bio)