The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law invites you to Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation? with Scott Sagan, Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at 5:00 pm in the LBJ Library Brown Room.

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty gives all countries the right to nuclear power for peaceful purposes. However, with the spread of nuclear power comes the spread of sensitive nuclear technology that can be applied to the development of nuclear weapons. In a time when alternative energy sources like nuclear power are becoming increasingly necessary, how can we guarantee nuclear nonproliferation?

Scott Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as a special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. He has also served as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of Defense and at the Sandia National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

This presentation is part of the Strauss Center’s International Security Speaker Series, which features leading scholars and policy practitioners discussing challenges and solutions for meeting the security demands of the modern world.