2008 Gordon Cain Conference
The Dilemmas of Dual Use
27–28 March 2008
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
| 8:15 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 a.m. |
Welcome to CHF |
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Ronald Brashear, Director of the Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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| 9:05 a.m. |
About the Cain Conference |
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Roy MacLeod, Gordon Cain Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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| Session I |
Ethical Codes |
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Moderator: Roy MacLeod, Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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| 9:15 a.m. |
"The Control of 'Dual Use' in the Chemical and Life Sciences: A Conceptual Analysis" |
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John Hart, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
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Peter Clevestig, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
"Ethical Codes for Chemists: The IUPAC Experience" |
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Graham Pearson, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford |
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| 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
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| 11:00 a.m. |
"The Ethical and Legal Importance of Scientific Codes of Conduct Regarding Dual-Use Research" |
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Michael Selgelid, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, and National Centre for Biosecurity, The Australian National University
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| 11:45 a.m. |
Title TBA |
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Michael Stebbins, Federation of American Scientists
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| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| Session II |
Industry and its Relationship with Dual Use |
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Moderator: Jeffrey Johnson, Department of History, Villanova University |
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| 1:45 p.m. |
"Commercial Chemicals as Weapons or Precursors" |
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George W. Parshall |
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| 2:30 p.m. |
"Industry and the Changing CWC Environment" |
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Caitriona McLeish, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex
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| 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:30 p.m. |
"Covert Trafficking Networks for Chemical Weapons Precursors: Lessons from the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s" |
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Jonathan Tucker, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies,
Monterey Institute of International Studies
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| 4:15 p.m. |
"The Future of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Maintaining Relevance in a Changing Environment" |
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Michael Moodie |
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| 5:00 p.m. |
"The Role of Industry in Minimizing Proliferation Potential: Lessons from the Negotiation and Implementation of the Chemical Weapons and Illicit Drug Precursor Regimes" |
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Michael Walls, American Chemical Council
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| 8:15 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| Session III |
The Case of Nonlethal Gases |
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Moderator: Ronald Brashear, Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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| 9:00 a.m. |
"Triple Use (Low Lethality) Chemical Agents: Technical Dilemmas of Development, Testing, and Employment" |
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Martin Furmanski, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation |
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| 9:45 a.m. |
"Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons" |
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Alan Pearson, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
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| 10:30 a.m. |
"Chemical and Biological Incapacitants: Disabling Counter-Proliferation" |
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Jez Littlewood, Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies,
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
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| 11:15 a.m. |
Break |
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| Session IV |
Panel Discussion |
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| 11:30 a.m. |
Speakers from all sessions will take part. |
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| 12:30 p.m. |
Depart |
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