The virtual seminar will be held from Noon to 1:30 p.m. (ET)
With the election of Joe Biden as President, there is widespread if cautious expectation in the nuclear arms control and nonproliferation community that it will be possible now to save the 2010 New START Treaty and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and to make progress on moving US policy to No First Use of nuclear weapons, and to cut some planned nuclear weapon modernization programs despite various political obstacles facing nuclear policy reform. This talk will make the case that too narrow a focus on immediate threats and incremental gains may be a distraction from changing nuclear policy in a more holistic way that allows for a necessary nuclear policy reformation rather than simply nuclear policy restoration.
About the speaker: Emma Belcher is president of Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear security foundation. Prior to arriving at Ploughshares, Emma spent nearly a decade at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she led the foundation’s Nuclear Challenges grantmaking program. Emma has also served as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was an advisor in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security and international affairs. She received her PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.