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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.