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Kennedy Center (238 HRCB)Session 19:00–10:00 a.m. Nuclear Energy 101 and What Went Wrong at ChernobylMatthew Memmott, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, BYU 10:00–11:00 a.m. The Sociopolitical Aftermath of ChernobylModerator: Jeff Hardy, Assistant Professor of History, BYUA. “Innocents of Empire: Belarusian Perspectives ca. 1990”Tony Brown, Professor of Russian, BYUB. “Chernobyl and the Demise of the Soviet Bloc” Scott Cooper, Associate Professor of Political Science, BYUC. “Chernobyl, Toxicity, and the Culture Politics of the Anthropocene”Chip Oscarson, Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies 11:00–11:15 a.m. Break and poster session 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Keynote 1: “The Promise and Politics of Nuclear Energy in 21st-Century America”Senator Judd Gregg, Cochair of Nuclear Matters and Former Governor and U.S. Senator ofNew Hampshire

Session 2 1:45–2:40 p.m. Keynote 2: “Challenges and Successes of Nuclear Arms Control in the Post–Cold War Era”Ambassador Adam Scheinman, Special Representative of the U.S. President for Nuclear Nonproliferation

Maeser Building (321 MSRB)Session 3 3:00–3:45 p.m. Performance of Richard Rhodes’s play Reykjavík (on the Reykjavík Summit)Directed by Lauren Wilkins; starring Stephen Moore and Cooper Sutton

3:45–4:30 p.m. Keynote 3: “Reykjavík and Writing About Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century”Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian and Playwright

4:30–4:40 p.m. Break

Session 4 4:40–5:25 p.m. “‘Atoms for Peace’: Lessons for the 21st Century”Moderator: Nick Mason, Professor of English and European Studies, BYUEric Jensen, Associate Professor of Law, BYULiz Jevtic-Somlai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, BYUMatthew Memmott, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, BYUMike Stimpson, Associate Professor of Metallurgical and Nuclear Engineering, University of Utah

5:25–5:30 p.m.Closing remarks and poster awards presentation Liz Jevtic-Somlai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, BYU

A campus-wide event marking three anniversaries in nuclear history: 30 years since Chernobyl and the Reykjavík Summit and 20 years since the signing of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.

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thank you to the following at byu:david m. kennedy center for international studiesdepartment of political scienceira a. fulton college of engineering and technologyundergraduate studies

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25 March 2016 238 HRCB/321 MSRB kennedy.byu.edu/nuclear