10/28/20
Sharon Squassoni of George Washington University, formerly with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Congressional Research Service, briefed the group on the increasing opacity of U.S. nuclear export licensing, intangible nuclear technology transfers, nuclear cooperative agreement negotiations, and nuclear proliferation intelligence.
The poster child for these problems is Saudi Arabia, but there are other cases as well. The question for the working group will be what can and should our government do to reverse these trends?