Sunday, 16 September 2012, 19:30
Film Presentation: The Beginnings of the IAEA in Vienna
Introduced by Leopold Kammerhofer and Marta Riess, IAEA Archives
Metro Kino, Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna
Monday, 17 September 2012
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome
10:00-12:30: The Early Years of International Nuclear Cooperation
David Holloway (Stanford): The Soviet Union and the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy: The Beginnings of International Control
Stephen Twigge (Kew): The Third Nuclear Power: The UK and the Creation of the IAEA
Elisabeth Röhrlich (Vienna): From New York to Vienna: The IAEA Headquarters in Austria
John Krige (Atlanta): Euratom and the IAEA: The Problem of Self-Inspection
Chair: Christian Ostermann (Washington)
14:30-17:00: The IAEA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Xin Zhan (Changchun): China and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, 1964-1989
A. Vinod Kumar (New Delhi): The Indian Nuclear Program
Jo-Ansie van Wyk (Pretoria): The South African Nuclear Program and the IAEA
Robert Anderson (Vancouver): The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Debates
Chair: Leopoldo Nuti (Rome)
17:30-19:30: Podium Discussion (in cooperation with DER STANDARD)
With Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut, Vienna), Joseph F. Pilat (Los Alamos National Laboratories), and Gudrun Harrer (DER STANDARD, Vienna)
Chair: Oliver Rathkolb (Vienna)
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
9:00-11:00: Grass-Roots Movements, Environmentalism, and the IAEA
Holger Nehring (Sheffield): The Politics of Security: Protests against Nuclear Weapons and International Relations in the 1950s and early 1960s
Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus): The Question of Nuclear Safety and the Rise of Environmentalism in Western Europe: Transnational Perspectives
Karena Kalmbach (Florence): The IAEA and the Debate on the Health Effects of Chernobyl
Chair: Bernd Greiner (Hamburg)
12:00-14:00: Promoting the Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Technology
Gabriele Metzler (Berlin): Imagined Modernity: Nuclear Power and West German Society in the 1960s
Eugen Pfister (Vienna): "La domestication de l’atome c’est le steak grillé avec l’energie nucléaire": Nuclear Optimism in European Newsreels
J. Samuel Walker (Washington): Three Mile Island: The First Great Nuclear Power Crisis
Chair: Carola Sachse (Vienna)
14:00-15:00: Concluding Remarks
Oliver Rathkolb and Elisabeth Röhrlich