Welcome and Opening Keynote Address
Welcome remarks given by Dr Robert Jordan, Director, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, and Director of the UK Project on Nuclear Issues at RUSI.
The opening keynote given by Rob Harrison, Director General Warhead, Defence Nuclear Organisation, Ministry of Defence.
Panel One: Allied Deterrence
'Allied Anxiety and Nuclear Ambition: Rethinking Proliferation in an Era of Uncertain U.S. Commitments'
Nour Eid
'On Sub-Strategic Nuclear Deterrence: Strategy, Posture, and Credibility'
Eli Glickman, Centre for Nuclear Strategy and Security, KCL
'Strengthening European Nuclear Deterrence: Better Leveraging the Arsenals of the UK and France'
Anandi Sweere, Independent
Moderator: Professor Andrew Futter, University of Leicester
Panel Two: Nuclear in a Changing World
'"Nukes Don't Exist": How Fringe Conspiracies and Information Warfare Threaten Nuclear Deterrence'
Annabel Biggs, AWE
'Securing the Unsecured: Attacks on Nuclear Facilities'
Ali Alkış, NATO Defense College
'Drones, Hybrid Pressure and Nuclear Stability: How UAV Intrusions Expose New Vulnerabilities'
Evan Curran-Ross
Moderator: Dr Andrew Leigh, MASS
Ministerial Keynote Address
Keynote address given by Charlotte Nichols MP, Labour co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Nuclear
Panel Three: The Future of the UK Nuclear Enterprise
'What the UK Should Learn from the Franco Nuclear Naissance'
Hugo Clark, Rolls-Royce
'Utilising Am-241 from Legacy Civil Plutonium Stockpiles for Long-Duration Deep-Sea Sensor Networks'
Jack Lines, Cavendish Nuclear
'The Next Generation: Are UK Schools Reinforcing Nuclear Misconceptions?'
Iden Starfire, UK Ministry of Defence
Moderator: Jeremy Edwards, UKNNL
Panel Four: Contested Deterrence and Adversary Approaches
'Beyond Abstract Assurance: North Korean Nuclear Warfighting and Extended Deterrence'
Sang Hun Seok, University of Cambridge
'The New Strategic Vulnerability: Critical Material Dependencies in the Emerging Fusion Economy'
Zewelanji Nalwamba, University of Leicester
'Red Lines in Grey Zones: Russian Nuclear Signalling in the Ukraine War'
Diana Kuznetsova, King's College London
Moderator: Parham Ghobadi, BBC