The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. (E.T.)
For 40 years, the US National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC)—a non-governmental group composed of natural scientists and engineers, policy and area experts, and retired military leaders—has held security dialogues, first with the Soviet Academy of Sciences and then with peers in China and India. The dialogues address strategic stability, nuclear weapons, biosecurity, space security, cyber security, conventional weapons with potentially strategic impacts, and emerging technology. Micah Lowenthal will discuss the work of CISAC and describe conceptual and practical lessons from conducting the security dialogues and plans for the future.
About the speaker: Micah Lowenthal is the director of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and senior director for international networks and cooperation at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He oversees CISAC’s security dialogues with counterparts in Russia, China, and India, as well as international projects on WMD terrorism, nuclear safety and security, treaty monitoring and verification, and other topics. Previously, he was a lecturer and researcher in nuclear engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.