(update 1 October 2026)
Sunday January 10, 2027
Arrival and Registration
20:00 Dinner and informal introductions
Monday, January 11, 2027
09:00 – 09:30 Introduction
Carlo Schaerf – President of ISODARCO and Course Directors
09:30 – 11:00 Session 1
Fundamentals of Nuclear Strategy
Steven E. Miller – Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
15:00 – 16:30 Session 2
Fundamentals of the Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament regimes
Tariq Rauf – Pugwash Council, Vienna
16:45 – 18:15 Session 3
IAEA safeguards, Verification and Monitoring
Laura Rockwood – Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
18:30 – 20:00 Session 4
Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine and Policy
Alexey Arbatov – Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Moscow
Tuesday January 12, 2027
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5
Chinese Nuclear Policy and Strategy
Xiangli Sun – Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing
16:30 – 18:00 Session 6
US Nuclear Policy
Vipin Narang – MIT, Cambridge MA
18:15 – 20:00 Session 7
France’s new nuclear posture and its role in Europe’s security architecture
Bruno Tertrais – FRS, Paris
21:30 PARTY
Wednesday January 13, 2027
09:00 – 10:30 Session 8
Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
Manpreet Sethi – Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi
15:00 – 16:30 Session 9
The Third Gulf War and its Consequences: How Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions have reshaped the regional order (a Debate)
Mahsa Rouhi – National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
Ariel Levite – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Tel Aviv
16:45 – 18:15 Session 10
Coping with the North Korean Bomb
Ankit Panda – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
18:30 – 20:00 Session 11
Policy Simulation exercise
Andrew Reddie – Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, CA
Thursday January 14, 2027
09:00 – 10:30 Session 12
Advanced Technology and Strategic Stability
Sybille Bauer – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
15:30 – 16:30 Session 13
Space Warfare
Steve Fetter – University of Maryland, USA
16:45 – 18:15 Session 14
AI and Nuclear Weapons
Andrew Reddie – Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, CA
18:30 – 20:00 Session 15
The Quantum Revolution and Questions of Second-strike Survivability
Michal Krelina – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Friday January 15, 2027
09:00 – 10:30 Session 16
Unmanned Systems and the Changing Character of War
Peter Asaro – The New School, New York City
15:00 – 16:30 Session 17
Political Extremism and Global Stability
Stefano Costalli – Università Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy
16:45 – 18:15 Session 18
Implications of the Nuclear Energy Renaissance
Ariel Levite – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Tel Aviv
18:30 – 20:00 Session 19
New Wars, New Peace? How Great Power Rivalry is Fragmenting Global Alliances – Panel dedicated to Prof. Francesco Calogero
Navigating Global Disorder: Challenges, Choices, and the Search for a New Order
Paolo Foradori – University of Trento, Italy,
followed by a panel discussion with Nadia Arbatova – Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, Xiangli Sun and Ankit Panda, moderated by Francesca Giovannini – Project on Managing the Atom, Cambridge MA
Saturday January 16, 2027
09:00 – 10:30 Session 20
Nuclear Dynamics, Domestic Politics and the Future World Order (title tbc)
Francesca Giovannini – Project on Managing the Atom, Cambridge MA
10:30 – 12:00
Course Evaluation and Suggestions
President & co-directors
14:00 – 17:00 Session 21 (optional)
SIGNAL tabletop exercise
Andrew Reddie – Berkeley Risk and Security Lab
Sunday January 17, 2027
06:00 Bus departs for Milan Airports