Sunday 12 January 2025
Participants arrival and registration
Monday 13 January 2025
9:00 – 09:30 Session 1 Introduction
Carlo Schaerf, Francesca Giovannini
9:30 – 11:00 Session 2 Chair: Giuseppina Orlandini – Secretary: Zahraa Kapasi
Fundamentals of Nuclear Strategy
Steve Miller, Harvard Kennedy School, Mass., USA
16:30 – 18:00 Session 3 Chair: Mirco Elena – Secretary: Andrea Zavaleta
International Context: Ukraine
Polina Sinovets, Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, Ukraine; Istituto Affari Internazionali, Roma, Italy
18:15 – 19:45 Session 4 Chair: Alessandro Pascolini – Secretary: Viktoriia Skoropadska
International Context: NATO – US relations
Paul Van Hooft, Rand Europe, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
21:30 – 23:00 Session 5 Chair: Laura Rockwood – Secretary: Antonio Carlo
International Context: The Middle East
Arale Zohar, Israeli Pugwash Group
Tuesday 14 January 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Session 6 Chair: Paolo Foradori – Secretary: Matteo Bordin
US Nuclear Policy
David Kearn, St. John’s University, NY; Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard, USA
16:30 – 18:00 Session 7 Chair: Francesco Calogero – Secretary: Chiara Fargnoli
Russia’s Evolving Nuclear Policy
Dmitry Stefanovich, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS, Russia
18:15 – 19:45 Session 8 Chair: Francesca Giovannini – Secretary: Lorenzo Piccioli
Chinese Nuclear Policy
Wu Riqiang, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
21:30 PARTY
Wednesday 15 January 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Session 9 Chair: Tariq Rauf – Secretary: Sara El Jamali
Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
Rabia Akhtar, Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research, University of Lahore, Pakistan
10:30 Group Picture
10:45 EXTRA ACTIVITY proposed by Massimo Morichi
Seminar: Nuclear Warheads verifications in trust
16:30 – 18:00 Session 10 Chair: Poul Christiansen – Secretary: Lodovica Clavarinoi
The Nonproliferation Regime
Laura Rockwood, Open Nuclear Network, Vienna, Austria
18:15 – 19:45 Session 11 Chair: Beniamino Irdi – Secretary: Shoval Ben Yair
The endless Iran nuclear crisis
Tariq Rauf, Former Head of Verification & Security Policy, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
21:30 – 23:00 Session 12 Chair: Carlo Trezza – Secretary: Bianca Voican
Coping with the North Korean Bomb
Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program CEIP, Washington DC, USA
Thursday 16 January 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Session 13 Chair: Steven Miller – Secretary: Matteo Fiorenza
Advanced Technology and Nuclear Stability
Sibylle Bauer, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden
11:00 – EXTRA ACTIVITY proposed by Dimitry Stefanovich:
Seminar: Strategic counter-force capabilities and disruptive technologies
16:30 – 18:00 Session 14 Chair: Francesca Giovannini – Secretary: Francesco Alfano
Space Warfare in the 21st Century
Joan S. Johnson-Freese, Professor Emeritus, Naval War College, USA
18:15 – 19:45 Session 15 Chair: Marco De Andreis – Secretary: Mohamed Hakeem
Hypersonic Weapons
Alessandro Pascolini, University of Padua, Italy
21:30 – 23:00 Session 16 Chair: Sibylle Bauer – Secretary: Luca di Sciullo
Technology Revolution and Private Actors
James Mckeon, Carnegie Corporation of New York, USA
Friday 17 January 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Session 17 Chair: Alessandro Saggioro – Secretary: Sara Al-Sayed
Integrated deterrence: Strengths and Risks
Andrew Reddie, Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, UC Berkeley, USA
11:00 – EXTRA ACTIVITY proposed by Daniel Kroth
Seminar and Open Discussion: Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons: Fact, Fiction and Alternative Futures
14:00 – EXTRA ACTIVITY proposed by Andrew Reddie
Wargame session: Signal
16:30 – 18:00 Session 18 Chair: Rabia Akhtar – Secretary: Daniel Kroth
Hybrid Threats: The Long Term systemic challenge
Beniamino Irdi, Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
18:15 – 19:45 Session 19 Chair: Aharon Zohar – Secretary: Anton Meier
Economic Sanctions as Weapon
Andrea Fracasso, University of Trento, Italy
21:30 – 23:00 Session 20 Chair: Lodovica Clavarino – Secretary: Andrea Zavaleta
European Security after Ukraine
Marco de Andreis, Unione Scienziati per il Disarmo, USPID, Italy
Saturday 18 January 2025
9:00 – 10:30 Session 21 Chair: Polina Sinovets – Secretary: Lodovica Clavarino
In search of a new global nuclear order, what is the future for nuclear diplomacy and arms control?
Francesca Giovannini, Executive Director of the Harvard Belfer’s Initiative on Managing the Atom, USA
10:30 – 12:00 Session 22
Course evaluation and suggestions
Carlo Schaerf, Steven Miller, and Francesca Giovannini
Sunday 19 January 2025
6:00 Bus departs for Milan Airports