Center for Global Trends and International Organizations at the Institute of Contemporary International Studies of the Diplomatic Academy of Russian MFA PIR Center Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) William Perry

The Russian-US Relations, Nuclear Threat reduction and Global Security We invite young scientists, students, teachers to meet with the American politician, businessman, public figure, US Secretary of Defense (1994 - 1997) William Perry. The program: • speech by William Perry • discussion on issues of Russia-America relations and its impact on global security • introducing a new book by William Perry «My Journey at the Nuclear Brink» Working language – English February 5, 11.00 – 12.10 Assembly Hall of the Diplomatic Academy (Ostozhenka str., 53/2, building 1) Registration mandatory tel. 8 (499) 940 09 83

William James Perry an American mathematician, engineer, and businessman who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton. An expert in U.S. foreign policy, national security and arms control, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Perry was a founding board member of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation working to reduce the threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Member of the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe. Perry used the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1992 (the Nunn-Lugar program), which provided funds for the dismantling of nuclear weapons in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, to diminish the nuclear threat. In 2007 – 2013, Perry together with former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, and former Senator Sam Nunn published a number of articles in calling for the United States to take the lead in reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons. In 2013 he founded the William J. Perry Project, a non-profit effort to educate the public on the current dangers of nuclear weapons.

Materials to prepare for the meeting:

* Articles at the resources: William J. Perry Project * Nuclear Security Project * G.Shultz, W.Perry, H.Kissinger, S.Nunn «Toward a World without Nuclear Weapons». * Примаков Е., Иванов И., Велихов Е., Моисеев М. От ядерного сдерживания к общей безопасности. Известия, 15 октября 2010 * Алексей Арбатов, выступление на международном семинаре «Прорывные технологии, будущее сдерживания и вызовы стратегической стабильности»

For all questions, please, contact the project coordinator Anton Tamarovich tel. 8 (499) 940 09 83, [email protected]