2006 Congressional Hearings on WMD

November

North Korea's Nuclear Test: Next Steps
November 15, 2006 - House Committee on International Relations

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September

Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency Programs of the Department of Defense
September 26, 2006 - House Armed Services Committee, Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities

• Chairman Saxton Opening Statement


Panel I
• John Young, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
• Mr. Phil Grone, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, Department of Defense
• Mr. Richard Connelly, Director, Defense Energy Support Center, Defense Logistics Agency
• Mr. Mike Aimone, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Department of Defense


Panel II
• Mr. Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group, Ltd.
• Dr. James T. Bartis, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
• Mr. Mark Wagner, Member, Federal Performance Contracting Coalition, Business Council for Sustainable Energy

Responding To Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Next Steps
September 19, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement
• Senator Biden's Opening Statement


Panel I
• R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State, Washington, DC
  
  Panel II
• Dr. Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC
• Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution Washington, DC

July

Plutonium disposition and the U.S. mixed oxide fuel facility
July 26, 2006 - House Armed Services Committee

Panel I
• Mr. Matthew Bunn, Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University


Panel II
• Ambassador Linton Brooks, Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
• Mr. Charles Anderson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy
• Ambassador Michael Guhin, Fissile Materials Negotiator, U.S. Department of State

North Korea: U.S. Policy Options
July 20, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement


Panel I
• Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.


Panel II
• Arnold Kanter, Principal Member, The Scowcroft Group, Washington, D.C.
• Morton Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Nonproliferation Strategy: Policies and Technical Capabilities
July 20, 2006 - House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

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A North Korea Update
July 11, 2006

• John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, DC

June

Reports of weapons of mass destruction findings in Iraq
June 29, 2006 - The House Armed Services Committee

• Chairman Weldon's opening statement
  
  Panel I
• Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
  
  Panel II
• Frank Gaffney, President, Center for Security Policy
• Dr. David Kay, First Director, CIA Iraqi Survey Group
• Dr. Terence Taylor, Former Commissioner, U.N. Special Commission on Iraq

North Korean Brinkmanship: Is U.S. Policy Up to the Challenge?
June 29, 2006 - House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific

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Iran: Assessing Geopolitical Dynamics and U.S. Policy Options
June 8, 2006 - The House Armed Services Committee

• Chairman Hunter's opening statement
• Dr. Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Dr. Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

May

Iran's Political/Nuclear Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options
May 18, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement
• Senator Biden's Opening Statement
• Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman for External Affairs, American International Group, Inc. , New York, NY
• Dr. Vali R. Nasr, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School , Monterey, CA
• Ms. Julia Nanay, Senior Director , PFC Energy, Washington, DC
• Mr. James A. Phillips, Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies , The Heritage Foundation , Washington, DC

Iran's Political/Nuclear Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options
May 17, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement


Panel I
• Robert J. Einhorn, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
• Mr. David Albright, President and Founder, Institute for Science and International Security, Washington, DC


Panel II
• Dr. Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
• Mr. Karim Sadjadpour , Iran Analyst, International Crisis Group, Washington, DC
• Dr. Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, DC
• Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center, Washington, DC

Iran's Nuclear Program and the Impact of Potential Sanctions: An Intelligence Community Assessment
May 11, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Mr. Robert Walpole, Deputy Director for Strategy and Evaluation, National Counter Proliferation Center, Washington, DC
• Ms. S. Leslie Ireland, Mission Manager for Iran, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, DC
• R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State, Washington, DC
• Mr. Paul E. Simons, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities , Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State, Washington, DC

April

U.S.-India Atomic Energy Cooperation: Strategic and Nonproliferation Implications
April 26, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement
• Senator Biden's Opening Statement


Panel I
• William J. Perry, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Robert L. Gallucci, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service , Georgetown University , Washington, DC
• Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Belfer Center for Science & International Affair, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Dr. Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC


Panel II
• Ronald F. Lehman, II, Director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
• Robert J. Einhorn, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC
• Dr. Gary Milhollin, Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, Washington, DC
• Dr. Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

U.S.-India Atomic Energy Cooperation: The Indian Separation Plan and the Administration's Legislative Proposal
April 05, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement
• Senator Biden's Opening Statement
• Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, Department of State, Washington, DC

Implementing the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) recommendations to combat weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
April 5, 2006 - The House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities

• Chairman Saxton's opening statement
• Peter Flory, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Department of Defense
• Dr. James A Tegnelia, Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director, U.S. Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (SCC-WMD)

Future plans for the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex infrastructure
April 5, 2006 - The House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

• Chairman Everett's opening statement
• Dr. David Overskei, Chairman, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force
• Peter Stockton, Project on Government Oversight
• Tom D'Agostino, Deputy Administrator, Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration
• Charles Anderson, Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy

March

U.S. nonproliferation strategy and the roles and missions of the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy in nonproliferation in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2007 and the Future Years Defense Program
March 29, 2006 - Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities

• Peter C. W. Flory, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
• General James E. Cartwright, USMC, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command
• Jerry Paul, Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy
• Robert G. Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

Nuclear weapons and defense environmental cleanup activities of the Department of Energy in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2007 and the Future Years Nuclear Security Program
March 7, 2006 - Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

• Linton F. Brooks, Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
• James A. Rispoli, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management

A Nuclear Iran: Challenges and Responses
March 02, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Senator Lugar's Opening Statement
• Senator Biden's Opening Statement
• Ronald F. Lehman, II, Director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
• Dr. Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, DC
• Dr. Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.

Fiscal Year 2007 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for the Department of Energy's Atomic Energy Defense Activities
March 1, 2006 - The House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

• Chairman Everett's opening statement
• Ambassador Linton Brooks, Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
• James Rispoli, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy

February

Priorities and plans for the atomic energy defense activities of the Department of Energy and to review the Fiscal Year 2007 President's Budget Request for atomic energy defense activities of the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration
February 16, 2006 - Senate Committee on Armed Services

• Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy

Countering a nuclear Iran
February 1 - The House Armed Services Committee

• Chairman Hunter's opening statement
• Michael Eisenstadt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Dr. George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council

New Initiatives in Cooperative Threat Reduction
February 09, 2006 - Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• Robert Joseph, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security , Department of State, Washington, DC