On Thursday 9 August 2007 Dr Kerry Kartchner, Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, US State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, will lead a discussion on "U.S. Nuclear Modernisation Plans, Policies and Debates" from 3-4pm.
Dr Kartchner is Senior Strategic Planner in the Office of Strategic Planning and Outreach, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State. He recently completed a two year detail to the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, where he was Chief of the Division of Strategy and Policy Studies. Prior to that assignment, he was Senior Advisor for Missile Defense Policy in the Bureau of Arms Control, U.S. Department of State. His current duties include advanced planning and outreach initiatives on policies related to deterrence, weapons of mass destruction, strategic arms control, and nonproliferation.
Dr Kartchner has over twenty years experience in the field of national security affairs, with particular emphasis on nuclear weapons policy and arms control. Prior to his current assignment, he served as the Senior State Department Representative to the Standing Consultative Commission (for the ABM Treaty), and to the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission (for the START Treaty). While serving as Senior State Department Representative to the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission, he was chairman and chief U.S. spokesman for the Inspection Protocol Working Group and the Space Launch Issues Working Group. He is the author of a book on the history of the START negotiations entitled Negotiating START: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and the Quest for Strategic Stability, (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1992), as well as a contributor to other journals and edited collections.
This meeting will take place in the 4th Floor Meeting Room, Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DX.
If you would like to attend this meeting, please reply to Kathleen James on Tel: 020 395 9109 or e-mail
james@iiss.org
