Reducing Nuclear Threats in a Time of Peril

Speaker: Ambassador Alexander Kmentt, Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department, Austrian Foreign Ministry
Ambassador Alexander Kmentt is the Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, He served as President of the June 2022 First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). He has worked extensively on nuclear disarmament issues, including at the Conference on Disarmament and at the CTBTO in Vienna, and is one of the architects of the initiative on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, which led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
During a sabbatical in 2019-20 as Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, he wrote the book The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: How it was achieved and why it matters (Routledge 2020). He was elected “Arms Control Person of the Year 2014” by the US-based Arms Control Association.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction by the Moderator: Dr. William Potter, Director, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
02:56 Presentation by Ambassador Alexander Kmentt
41:50 Q&A