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February 8
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
“The Negotiation of the New START Treaty”
11:30A.M.-1:00P.M.
Toyota Auditorium
Lunch is $15 payable by cash or check on the day of the event.
Reservations are Required.
Register on-line by February 3 by clicking here
http://tinyurl.com/4u4jq2r
For more information call 974-0931
The event will be webcast
http://tinyurl.com/4z5c9yf
Ambassador Graham to Discuss New START Treaty at UT on Feb. 8
Former Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., a
world-renowned authority on nuclear nonproliferation,
will discuss the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
in the larger context of the strategic arms control
during a luncheon lecture on Feb. 8.
The New START treaty emerged from a 2009 summit between President Barack Obama and Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev and
was negotiated to replace the START I treaty which was nearing expiration. Taking nearly a year to complete, it was signed by Obama and Medvedev in April 2010 and passed after much debate by the U.S. Senate on Dec. 22, 2010.
Graham's ambassadorial post was as Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament, 1994-1997.
Graham is internationally known as a leading authority on international arms control and agreements designed to limit and combat
the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He was involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement involving the United States between 1970 and 1997.
Graham is now the executive chairman of the Board of Lightbridge Corp., a McLean, Va.-based company which holds patents on a new type of nuclear power fuel based on thorium. Lightbridge has conducted
its research and development work at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.
Graham has written articles for scholarly journals and major newspapers, and he has authored five books. Graham received a bachelor's degree in 1955 from Princeton University and a law degree
in 1961 from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Kentucky, District of Columbia and the New York bar associations and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
His numerous awards include the Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State.
The cost of the lunch event is $15 and is payable by cash or check on the day of the event. To reserve a spot, go to
http://tinyurl.com/4u4jq2r, and for more information, call 974-0931.
Parking is available for a fee in the Carolyn P. Brown University Center parking garage on Phillip Fulmer Way.
Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-3816 (o)
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