The international security landscape has evolved rapidly since September 11, 2001, and the problem of proliferation has become more urgent and complicated. At this luncheon session, sponsored by EPPC's program on Science, Technology, and Society, a panel of experts gave us an overview of the current status of the proliferation problem, with an emphasis on nuclear proliferation. The discussion touched on such subjects as:

• What have the recent revelations from A.Q. Khan taught us about the channels of proliferation and the network connecting Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Malaysia, and others?
• Which poses a greater proliferation threat: rogue regimes or terrorist groups?
• What lessons are there in Libya's recent conversion?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Bush policy?
• How might the anti-proliferation proposals presently before the United Nations be improved?

These and other questions were addressed by our panel of three leading experts:

Tom Cochran, the Wade Greene Chair for Nuclear Policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
	Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

A transcript of this event will appear online soon, and an edited version will appear in the next issue of The New Atlantis.