XXII EDOARDO AMALDI CONFERENCE
Nuclear Risks and Arms Control.
Problems and Progress in the Time of Pandemics and War
Rome, 6 – 8 April 2022
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, 6 APRIL
8:30 – 9:30 Registration
Opening addresses
Roberto ANTONELLI, President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Pasquale FERRARA, Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Luciano MAIANI, Chair of the Amaldi Conferences
Keynote lecture
10:30 – 11:10 Giorgio PARISI, Vice President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2021
The Value of Science
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break
Keynote lecture
11:30 – 12:10 Robert FLOYD, CTBTO Secretary General
25 Years of CTBT: a Success Story
1. Progress on the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Chair: Carlo SCHAERF
(SICA Committee, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
12:10 – 12:50 Rose GOTTEMOELLER, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO
An Independent View on Non-Proliferation
12:50 – 13:30 Sergey BATSANOV, Geneva Pugwash Office
Can the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime Remain Sustainable in the New Geopolitical Environment?
Lunch break
14:30 – 15:10 Tariq RAUF, Former Head of Verification and Security Policy, IAEA
The Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
2. Nuclear Energy and Biological Risks
Chair: Francesco CALOGERO
(SICA Committee, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
15:10 – 15:50 Tatsujiro SUZUKI, Nagasaki University, Japan
Updating and Lessons Learnt from Fukushima
15:50 – 16:30 Emilio PARISINI, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Latvia
International Cooperation to Tackle Future Pandemics
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break
3. The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Chair: Chair: Francesco LENCI
(SICA Committee, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
16:50 – 17:30 Barbara GALLO, IRIAD
From Non-Proliferation to Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
17:30 – 18:10 Nadezhda ARBATOVA, Head of the Department on European Politics, IMEMO, Moscow, Russia
Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Current Debates in the Russian Strategic Community
19:00 End of Day 1
THURSDAY, 7 APRIL
4. Conflict Areas
Chair: Micah LOWENTHAL
(National Academy of Sciences, USA)
9:40 – 10:20 Amb. Wael AL-ASSAD, Qatar National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons
Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
An Israel perspective
10:20 – 11:00 Hussain AL SHAHRISTANI, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
Tensions in the Middle East
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 Naeem Ahmad SALIK, Senior Fellow, Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dangers of Inadvertent Escalation in South Asia
12:00 – 12:40 Ramamurti RAJARAMAN, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
South Asia, a 3-Body Problem
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:40 Anton KHLOPKOV, Director, Centre for Energy and Security Studies, Moscow, Russia
The Case of the Korean Peninsula
5. The Iran Enrichment Agreement. Outlook and Perspectives
Chair: Eldar MAMEDOV
(Political advisor Socialists and Democrats, EU Parliament)
14:40 – 15:20 Steven MILLER, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
Reassessing the Iran Nuclear Deal
15:20 – 16:00 Ali Akbar SALEHI, Academy of Sciences, Iran Atomic Energy Organization
Iran’s Nuclear Program, Challanges and Opportunities
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break
6. Thinking about the Future
Chair: Enza PELLECCHIA
(SICA Committee, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
16:20 – 17:00 Guglielmo TAMBURRINI, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Nuclear Weapons, Cyber Risk and Militarization of Artificial Intelligence
17:00 – 17:40 Piero MARTIN, University of Padua, Italy
The Roadmap to Fusion: Science and International Cooperation for Sustainable Energy
17:40 – 18:20 Alessio PECORARIO, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Holy See
Promoting Integral Human Development and Peace in the Digital Age
18:30 Guided tour of the Villa Farnesina
FRIDAY, 8 APRIL
7. Progress (and Setbacks) in the Elimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chair: Alessandro PASCOLINI
(SICA Committee, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
9:00 – 9:40 Goetz NEUNECK, IFSH, University of Hamburg
Verifying Nuclear Disarmament
9:40 – 10:20 Alexey ARBATOV, Head of the Center for International Security, IMEMO, Moscow, Russia
Preserving and Updating Strategic Stability
10:20 – 11:00 Paolo COTTA RAMUSINO, Pugwash
Overview
11:00 – 12:30 General discussion on the present situation
Closing lecture
12:30 – 13:10 Eliezer RABINOVICI, President of CERN Council
Basic Science for Peace
13:15 End of the Conference and lunch
VENUE OF THE MEETING
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Palazzo Corsini
Via della Lungara 10 Rome
