Appendix A

Presentations at the Committee’s Public Information-Gathering Sessions

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Information Gathering Meeting #1
JUNE 21, 2022

• DOE National Nuclear Security Administration Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation (NA-80)
  Dallas Boyd
• DOE National Nuclear Security Administration | Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20)
  Christine Bent
• Overview of the MacArthur Foundation Project on Bolstering Counter-Proliferation Efforts within the Global Supply System
  (co-principal investigators John Holmes and Stephen Flynn) Prof. Stephen Flynn (for Captain John Holmes, U.S. Coast Guard [ret.])
• Nuclear Threat Initiative, Senior Director Nickolas Roth
  Nickolas Roth, senior director, Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Nuclear Materials Security Program Team
• Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Harvard Kennedy School), program director Simon Saradzhyan
  Simon Saradzhyan, program director, Belfer Center, U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
• Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Prof. Jessica Stern
  Jessica Stern’s Homeland Security Experts Group and Fellow Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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Information Gathering Meeting #2
AUGUST 15, 2022

• The Changing Nuclear Eras
  Jane Lute, president and CEO, Council on Cybersecurity strategic director SICPA North America
• The Role of NGOs to Counter Nuclear Terrorism
  Emma Belcher, president of Ploughshares Fund
• Roundtable Discussion
  Uri Friedman Atlantic Council, The Atlantic
• Roundtable Discussion
  David Sanger, The New York Times

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Information Gathering Meeting #3
NOVEMBER 16, 2022

• Worker And Public Health and Safety Risks
  Kathryn Higley, Oregon State University
• Advanced Nuclear Reactor Safeguards and Security
  Ken Luongo, Partnership for Global Security
  Per Peterson, Kairos Power and University of California
  Jack Edlow, Edlow International Company
• U.S. Foreign Obligations on Exported Nuclear Material, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Panel
  James Rubenstone, chief, Material Control and Accounting Branch, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS)
  Barry Miller, senior international policy analyst, Office of International Programs (OIP) and Cynthia Jones, senior technical advisor for nuclear security, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response (NSIR)
  Rebecca Richardson, deputy director, Division of Physical and Cyber Security Policy, NSIR
  Desiree Davis, acting chief, Materials Security Branch, NSIR

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Information Gathering Meeting #4
NOVEMBER 29, 2022

• Opening Remarks by DNN
  Kasia Mendelson
• Global Material Security (GMS)
  Art Atkins, Daniel Abeyta, Christine Bent, Allison Johnston, and Kristin Hirsch, International Nuclear Security, Radiological Security Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence
• Materials Management and Minimization (M3)
  Jeffrey Chamberlin, Joan Dix, and Tiffany Blanchard–Case Nuclear Materials Removals Research Reactor Conversions

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Information Gathering Meeting #5
DECEMBER 6, 2022

• 9/11 First Responder, World Trade Center
  Joseph Pfeifer, retired assistant chief of the New York City Fire Department, chief of counterterrorism and emergency preparedness (retired)
  Senior fellow with the Program on Crisis Leadership at Harvard Kennedy
• 9/11 First Responder, The US Pentagon
  James Schwartz, retired chief of Arlington County Fire Department and Deputy County Manager, Arlington County, senior fellow with the Program on Crisis Leadership at Harvard Kennedy
• Response and Recovery to Nuclear Terrorism
  Orly Amir, Department of Homeland Security, program manager, National Urban Security Technology Laboratory
  Adela Salame-Alfie and Armin Ansari, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Radiation Studies Section
• Response and Recovery to Nuclear Terrorism Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  Jessica Wieder, deputy director, Communications Division
  Jonathan Gill, physical scientist
  Joselito Ignacio, acting director and public health advisor
  Janis McCarroll, senior public health advisor

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Information Gathering Meeting #6
DECEMBER 15, 2022

• Opening Address
  Sara Cohen, deputy head of mission, Embassy of Canada to the United States
• Experience across many time zones: Reflections of a Federal Responder
  Daniel Blumenthal, attaché, U.S. Department of Energy
• Assessing a Currently Changing Nuclear Landscape and the WMD Nuclear Terrorism Risk
  Ambassador Kenneth Brill, founding director, U.S. National Counter-proliferation Center (2005–10), retired US Diplomat
  Brian Finlay, president and CEO, The Stimson Center
  Amy Woolf, nonresident senior fellow, Atlantic Council
  Moderator: Stephen Flynn, chair, National Academies WMD Nuclear Terrorism Committee
• Bolstering International Efforts to Prevent Non-State Actors from Developing, Acquiring, Manufacturing, Possessing, Transporting, Transferring, or Using Nuclear Weapons and Their Means of Delivery
  Nicki Mokhtari, United Nations Office of Preventing and Responding to WMD/CBRN Terrorism Unit
  Christian Carnus, criminal intelligence analyst, INTERPOL
  Richard Cupitt, The Stimson Center (retired)
  Moderator: Luke Hartig, President of National Journal Research, former senior director at the National Security Council
• The Importance of International Cooperation
  Ambassador Bonnie Denise Jenkins, under secretary for arms control and international security, U.S. Department of State
  Administrator Jill Hruby, under secretary of nuclear security and administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), U.S. Department of Energy Moderator: David Sanger, White House and national security correspondent, The New York Times
• Resilience to a Nuclear Terrorism Incident Kathleen Heppell-Masys, director general, Security and Safeguards, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
  Wendin Smith, director, Arms Control, Disarmament, WMD Non-Proliferation Centre, NATO
  Moderator: Michael Gresalfi, former senior advisor on counterproliferation and WMD threats to FEMA, DOE, and DHS
• Roundtable Discussion with U.S. Allies, Panelists, and Committee Members
  Moderator: Stephen Flynn, chair, National Academies WMD Nuclear Terrorism Committee

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Information Gathering Meeting #7
MARCH 6, 2023

• Welcome
  Drew Kuepper, strategy and analysis deputy assistant secretary, Department of Homeland Security
• R/N Threat Assessment
  Kevin Lehman, lead briefer, Department of Homeland Security
• R/N Risk
  Jennifer Pavlick, Management and Program Analysis, Department of Homeland Security
• FY23–27 Global Nuclear Detection Architecture Strategy & DHS Inbound Nuclear Planning Framework
  Major Greg Abide, strategic planner, Department of Homeland Security
  William Bilicic, strategy development branch chief, Department of Homeland Security
  Fredrick Breaux, Department of Homeland Security
• DHS Component Capabilities Panel, DHS Components: CISA, CWMD, TSA, & USCG
  Moderator, Theodore Macklin, president and founder, TOMAR Research, Inc.
• CWMD Principal Deputy Assistant Remarks
  Charles “Chas” Cook, principal deputy assistant secretary, Department of Homeland Security
• ODNI Brief
• USSOCOM Brief

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Information Gathering Meeting #8
MAY 2, 2023

• Briefing
  Melissa Dalton, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, Department of Defense