You are cordially invited to Strategic Affairs RoundTable – Roadblocks to the FMCT (Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty)

Saturday, April 13th, 2024, 10.00 AM EST; 8:30 PM IST
Online, 1 hours 30 minutes

Distinguished Panelists
Dr. Daryl Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association
Professor Reshmi Kazi, Nelson Mandela Center for Peace, Jamia Milia University
Ms Sanjana Gogna, Kelleher Fellow, UMD School of Public Policy
Professor Yoichiro Sato, BA (Law), Keio University, MA (International Studies)

Chair 
Dr. A. Adityanjee, President
Council for Strategic Affairs

About the Lecture 
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About the Distinguished Panelists 

Dr. Daryl Kimball
Dr. Daryl Kimball has been Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA) and publisher and contributor for the organization’s monthly journal, Arms Control Today, since September 2001. For more than two decades at ACA, Kimball has led the organization’s education, research, and policy advocacy campaigns on a range of issues, including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs, negotiation and ratification of the 2010 New START agreement, opposition to the controversial U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, the conclusion of the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran. He is a frequent expert source for reporters and policymakers, and has written and spoken extensively about nuclear arms control, disarmament, non-proliferation, and the effects of weapons production, testing, and use. In 2004, National Journal recognized him and In 2011, the MacArthur Foundation recognized ACA.

Professor Reshmi Kazi
Professor Reshmi Kazi is serving as faculty and full professor at Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia. She was Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. Her area of expertise includes India’s nuclear weapon policy, nuclear non-proliferation studies, nuclear security, nuclear terrorism and global nuclear disarmament. Also follow issues related to bio-terrorism and chemical terrorism and have written and published on these issues. She has Doctorate Degree from the Disarmament Division, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her Area of Specialization include Doctoral thesis is on Evolution of India’s Nuclear Doctrine: A Study of Political, Economic and Technological Dimensions. Earlier worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. During this period she worked on a project titled Weapons of Mass Destruction in South Asia, which was funded by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). In IDSA published a monograph titled “Nuclear Terrorism: The New Terror of the 21st Century”.  Been recognized for Specialties of expertise in Maritime and Naval Aviation back ground , conferences, seminars, conducting workshops in areas indicated, writing for print media. etc.

Ms Sanjana Gogna
Ms Sanjana Gogna is a first-year PhD student at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Her research mainly focuses on nuclear weapons strategy and deterrence theory. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Gogna was a research associate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she authored a paper on nuclear multipolarity with a specific emphasis on South Asia region. Gogna has also worked at the Center for Air Power Studies (CAPS), a think tank associated with the Indian Air Force, where she wrote a monograph titled “An Indian Perspective on China’s Nuclear Weapons”. Gogna received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Delhi. She also holds a master’s degree in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey. While at MIIS, Gogna worked as a research assistant at the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and was part of studies on nuclear security involving the United States, China and India.

Professor Yoichiro Sato
Professor Yoichiro Sato holds a BA (Law) from Keio University, MA (International Studies) from University of South Carolina, and Ph.D (Political Science) from University of Hawaii, and is currently at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Previously, he has also taught at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and Auckland University (New Zealand) and has been a visiting professor at multiple institutions. His more than ten published books include The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance (co-edited with Takashi Inoguchi and G. John Ikenberry, Palgrave, 2011), Regional Institutions, Geopolitics and Economics in the Asia Pacific (co-edited with Steve Rothman and Utpal Vyas, Routledge, 2017), and Re-Rising Japan (co-edited with Hidekazu Sakai, Peter Lang, 2017). His commentaries have appeared in various global media, including Time, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, Agence Presse Francais, and Nikkei Asian Review.