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• Tue

  10

  Nov

  2020

  NPWG Hosts Dr. Mona Dreicer on New START

  5:30 pmRSVP at http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG

  Join us as we welcome Dr. Mona Dreicer, who will be presenting "Negotiating the New START Treaty!

  The presentation will provide a general overview of the New START treaty and focus on the experience of being part of a bilateral arms control negotiation.

  Dr. Mona Dreicer retired in July 2020 from the position of Deputy Director of the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Currently, she is a CGSR Visiting Scientist. Since joining LLNL in 2003, she has focused on the Laboratory's nonproliferation programs, including international material protection and threat reduction, verification and safeguards technology, nonproliferation regimes and policy analysis, and international engagement. Prior to joining LLNL, Dreicer served as Director of the Office of Nuclear Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where she was involved in assessing compliance with nuclear arms control treaties and worked to ensure effective verification of nonproliferation agreements and U.S.-Russia nuclear materials programs. Over the past 30 years, Dreicer has worked in nuclear-related areas of international security, dose reconstruction, consequence management, environmental risk assessment and protection, and nuclear reactor safety for the U.S. government (Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, State Department), three U.S. national laboratories, (Los Alamos National Laboratory, LLNL, and the Environmental Measurements Laboratory), the International Atomic Energy Agency's Department of Nuclear Safety, and a French nonprofit research organization (Centre d'etude sur l'Evaluation de la Protection dans le domaine Nucleaire, or CEPN). Dreicer holds a Doctorate en Energetique from l'Ecole Nationale Superiere des Mines de Paris (School of Mines of Paris), Centre d'Energetique (Center of Energy Studies), Paris, France.