Event name
Vistas Webinar Series: "Preventing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons - A History" with Villager Leonard Weiss
When
Fri 04 / 26 / 2024
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
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Vistas Webinar Series: "Preventing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons - A History"
with Villager Leonard Weiss
Friday, April 26th at 11am
This talk provides a narrative history of the background, development, and timeline of some of the laws and institutions surrounding the effort to prevent or contain the spread of nuclear weapons. Briefly covered, in addition, are the discovery of nuclear fission, the development of the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the status of nuclear programs in a few countries that currently drive the news cycle on this issue.
Leonard Weiss is a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Co-operation (CISAC). He is also a national advisory board member of the Center for Arms control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, DC. For more than two decades he worked for Senator John Glenn as the staff director of both the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Nuclear Proliferation and the Committee on Governmental Affairs. He was the chief architect of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978 and legislation that created the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.