4 - 5 December 2007
Cambridge

The international conference “Overcoming Nuclear Danger“ took place on December 2007 at Harvard University in Cambridge, in occasion of the 20th anniversary of the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, signed by the Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan for the elimination of the intermediate-range nuclear arms.

The colloquium held by President Mikhail Gorbachev and The World Political Forum, in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the F. Kennedy School of Government aimed at analysing the lessons taken by the attempt of Reagan and Gorbachev of zeroing a whole category of nuclear arms, trying to identify actions which could minimize the risk of nuclear terrorism and wars.

The 47 experts from all over the world discussed many aspects of the nuclear danger. They focused on the possibility that the verification regime opened at that time is still applicable today to United States, Russia or other political realities owing nuclear arms or willing to get them and they also analysed the influence that its deadline, in 2009, could have on the global political stability.

Documents

Agenda

Participants list

Biographies

Press review