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June 23, 2000

Nautilus Executive Director Dr. Peter Hayes
Receives MacArthur Fellowship

Nautilus Executive Director Dr. Peter Hayes is one of 25 individuals named MacArthur Fellows, the MacArthur Foundation announced today.

The annual Fellowship is awarded in recognition of exceptional creativity and significant accomplishment. Each recipient is given $500,000 over five years.

Speaking from Beijing, where he is attending a Nautilus Institute workshop on energy futures and energy security in East Asia, Dr. Hayes said: "Although the Fellowship is made on an individual basis, it is also a strong vote of confidence in the mission and impact of the work of the entire staff of the Nautilus Institute."

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Shanghai Workshop Develops Scenarios on
Future of U.S.-China Relations

The Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at Fudan University held a three-day workshop to generate a range of ten-year scenarios for the future of U.S.-China relations June 8-10. Held in Shanghai, China, the highly interactive workshop brought together twenty Chinese and American analysts of security, energy, economic, and environmental issues.

Facilitated by the Global Business Network-Europe, the workshop was the first step in a project which aims to propose new cooperation-building policy options for both China and the U.S. A second workshop will be held in November.


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Rosa Parks Fifth Graders Complete Pegasus Voyage

Twenty-two fifth grade students from Rosa Parks Elementary School in Berkeley completed a Discovery Bay Voyage aboard Pegasus on May 22. At the safety briefing, one student asked if the Pegasus was haunted! At the debriefing after the voyage, most students said that their favorite moment was sitting on the bowsprit flying above the waves. The Pegasus crew was Paul Kassatkin, Peter Hayes, Jim Gaebe, Tom Jeremiason, Bill Gunn, Rich Kambak, and Kathy Corliss of the Berkeley Boosters who organized the trip. A second Rosa Parks fifth grade class completed their voyage on June 6th.

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Lyuba Zarsky Asks: Do Progressives Have a Vision
of Future US-China Relations?

In an article in Progressive Response, a publication of Foreign Policy in Focus, Program and Research Director Lyuba Zarsky argues that the opposition of progressives to normalization of trade relations with China is not really about China but the failures of the WTO. The overarching progressive aim is to build an ethics-based global economy.

But, Zarsky emphasizes, bashing China undermines an ethically based system of international state-to-state relations. "The sad truth is that there is no progressive vision of US-China relations. Treating China like a pariah state, even as it modernizes and develops relations with other nations, works against both world peace and a progressive global movement."

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Peter Hayes Briefs Energy Department on
Northeast Asian Regional Electric Grid

On May 9, Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes briefed Rose Gottemoeller, Deputy Administrator for the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, at the US Department of Energy in Washington DC on the potential for regional electric power grid interconnection in Northeast Asia. Dr. Hayes examined the dilemma posed by the small size and unreliability of the DPRK grid for the KEDO light water reactors under construction in the DPRK.

Dr. Hayes suggested that AC or DC high voltage transmission lines could export the power from the reactors in the DPRK to China. Doing so would displace coal-intensive thermal power plants in China in ways that would support the long-term reintegration of the DPRK and ROK electric power grids.

He noted that the ROK might be able to finance such an approach by using the Clean Development Mechanism of the Climate Change Convention. This mechanism allows countries to finance measures to reduce greenhouse gas reductions in other countries and to claim the reductions as their own.

 

Peter Hayes Speaks at Asia Institute, Monash University,
Interviewed by Radio Australia

On May 1, Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes delivered a seminar briefing on the situation inthe DPRK at the Asia Institute, Monash University, in Melbourne Australia. The Asia Institute is aNAPSNet and SANDNet partner. Afterwards, he answered questions fromfaculty and students including who was best equipped to respond to theDPRK's nuclear challenge as well as specific technical issues pertaining tothe DPRK's energy dilemmas. While in Australia, he was interviewed by Kanaha Sabapathy of theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program Asia Pacific on thepending June summit between North and South Korea. The interview wasbroadcast on May 3rd and also aired internationally on Radio Australia.The interview may be heard on Asia-Pacific's websiteat http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/record.htm or by clicking here.

 
Nautilus Welcomes Don Tull, Finance Officer

The Nautilus Institute is pleased to welcome Don Tull in the newly created position of Finance Officer. Don has extensive experience in nonprofit finance and administration, having held similar positions for several Bay Area and New York organizations. His areas of expertise include accounting, budgeting, and personnel policies.

Don came to the administrative world from the performing arts, having degrees in music and opera theatre from Oberlin College and Manhattan School of Music as well as a doctorate from Florida State University.

Don's original profession included a stint on Broadway and several national tours. He continues to engage in occasional stints as a music director, stage director or performer for local Gilbert & Sullivan groups.

 

Governance of International Investment Must be Used to Prod Responsible Corporate Standards, Argues Lyuba Zarsky in London

The governance of international investment must provide incentives to raise corporate environmental and social standards, argued the Nautilus Institute's Lyuba Zarsky at a recent Chatham House conference entitled "Sustainability, Trade and Investment: Which Way Now for the WTO?" (Note: a file describing the conference may be downloaded from the Chatham House conference site.)

Addressing some 100 participants from around the world, Ms. Zarsky suggested that investment negotiations should not be squeezed into the WTO but developed via a stand-alone framework agreement. She states in her paper, Getting Traction? Sustainable Development and the Governance of Investment, that "the most important task for the WTO is to build a bridge to other international organizations and to national governments." Britain's Environment Minister, Michael Meacher, also addressed the conference.

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IGCC Publishes Nautilus Study on Fuel and Famine in the DPRK

The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) at the University of California, San Diego published the latest Nautilus study on the DPRK's rural energy crisis. The paper, "Fuel and Famine: Rural Energy Crisis in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," was co-written by Nautilus Senior Associates James H. Williams and David von Hippel and Executive Director Peter Hayes. The authors review the DPRK's ongoing energy shortage and its devastating effects on the country's food production. They suggest promoting smaller-scale, alternative projects to deal with the agricultural impacts of the DPRK's energy shortage. Research for the paper was funded by a grant from the US Department of Energy. On March 16, Peter Hayes presented the paper at an event co-sponsored by IGCC and the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. About fifty policy analysts and decision makers attended the event.

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Schools Complete Pegasus Curriculum Work

The Alta Vista School in Auburn, California posted photos of their voyage on Pegasus on March 22 on their own web site titled "Ships Ahoy! Our Voyage on Pegasus." The class teacher, Melody Thomasson, created the web site.

Berkeley's Willard School class who voyaged on Pegasus on March 16 have completed classwork on their experience. Students completed theme-cards, such as shown above. The Pegasus Project offers an on-line curriculum called Virtual Voyage.

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Nautilus Launches Expanded Corporate Accountability Web Site

The Nautilus Institute has greatly expanded the Web resources available under the California Global Corporate Accountability Project.

The site now contains nearly 50 pages regarding the social and environmental performance of California-based multinational companies in the oil and information-technology sectors. Most of the Web site was composed by Nautilus Research Assistant Suzanne Beck.

The California Corporate Accountability Project is a joint endeavor of Nautilus, the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI), and Human Rights Advocates (HRA). The project is conducting a series of "stakeholder dialog" roundtables that include representatives of corporations and non-governmental organizations, and plans to publish a book-length report that evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of the codes-of-conduct approach, examines key issues and practices in the leading investment sites of targeted firms, and proposes innovations in governance. It is co-directed by Lyuba Zarsky of Nautilus, Michelle Leighton-Schwartz of NHI, and Naomi Roht-Arriaza of HRA. Funding is provided by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.

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Jefferson Fifth Graders Discover San Francisco Bay

Two groups of Jefferson Elementary School fifth-grade students led by teacher Robert Murray boarded Pegasus on April 4th for a Discovery Day sail in the East Bay. The wind was light but steady, and students saw an excellent tidal boundary near the Berkeley Pier, and one marine mammal during the sail. All students visited the bowsprit and were safely tethered to the boat, as can be seen in the photo. "Way cool," said one of the girls as she came back into the cockpit. Crew included Captain Bill Proctor, Christine Albertsen, James Fredrikson, Peter Hayes, and Patty Donald.

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Peter Hayes Unveils "Non-Governmental Secret Weapon"
at Non-Proliferation Conference



Peter Hayes urged increased cooperative engagement with the DPRK at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Non-Proliferation Conference on March 17, 2000 in Washington, DC, stressing the need for non-governmental development projects to go beyond merely humanitarian aid. He called for projects addressing the urgent need to rehabilitate the rural energy sector, and described one "non-governmental secret weapon" that the Nautilus Institute intends to deliver to a DPRK hospital or school in 2000 with perfect delivery accuracy and 100 percent kill probability: a solar-cell powered ultraviolet light water purification unit that kills pathogens in dirty water. The unit is made by Water Health International. On March 16, he spoke at the launch of the Institute's latest study on DPRK rural energy issues, Fuel and Famine in the DPRK, at an event co-sponsored by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. About fifty policy analysts and decision makers attended the event.

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ESENA Final Report Published

The Nautilus Institute is pleased to announce publication of the final report of the three-year ESENA Project. The report presents a framework for thinking about the nexus of energy, environmental and security issues in Northeast Asia and makes recommend-
ations for concerete, small-scale U.S.-Japan policy initiatives to achieve a sustainable energy future in the region.

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Alta Vista Fifth Grade Class Braves the Bay

In a strong westerly breeze, about 25 students, teachers and a few parents braved San Francisco Bay in bright sunlight on March 22 aboard Pegasus. The students rotated around the vessel, including the bowsprit. They listened for natural and human-made sounds, saw current boundaries, and learned why the Pegasus can't tip over when the wind blows hard and the hull heels sharply to leeward. The fifth grade class drove from Auburn east of Sacramento early in the morning to board Pegasus for the day. One marine mammal--a harbor seal--was sighted. The land group shouted "Ship Ahoy!" from the Berkeley pier as Pegasus passed by, while the sailing group yelled back "Land Ho!" Pegasus crew included Jim Gaebe, Mark Caplin, Bill Proctor, Christine Albertsen, Peter Hayes and Shorebird Nature Center's Patty Donald.

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Kristensen Meets with Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone

During a trip to Japan from Feb. 27 to March 5, Nautilus Associate Hans M. Kristensen met with Japan's former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. The 82-year old statesman is still active in shaping Japanese foreign policy and Kristensen interviewed Nakasone about security issues in Northeast Asia, the challenges for progress on nuclear disarmament, and the question of U.S. nuclear weapons in Japan during the Cold War. The meeting was part of a wide range of talks with government officials, parliamentarians, think-tanks, and non-governmental organizations in connection with the annual "Bikini-day" which commemorates the infamous "Lucky Dragon" incident in 1954, where a Japanese fishing boat was contaminated by radioactive fall-out from a U.S. 15-megaton nuclear test explosion on the Bikini Island atoll in the Pacific. Kristensen's observations from the trip will later be published here on the Nautilus web site.

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Nautilus Paper Cites Increased Attention to China in US War Plans

The role of China in the Pentagon's nuclear war planning has gradually increased throughout the late-1990s, writes Hans M. Kristensen in an on-line paper (locate "U.S. Nuclear Reform" in the Analysis & Tools section of the side bar) published by OneDemocracy.com. After being demoted to a second-class opponent in the early 1980s, China was formally brought back into main-stream U.S. nuclear war planning in October 1998 with the completion of the SIOP-00 (Single Integrated Operational Plan). The development follows President Clinton's signing of Presidential Decision Directive 60 (PDD-60) in November 1997, which formally ordered military planner to broaden the range of targets for U.S. nuclear weapons in China in response to the country's continued development of long-range ballistic missiles. The paper is also available here.

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DPRK Convenient as "Rogue State,"
Nautilus's Tim Savage Says in Article

When US policymakers discuss the major security threats facing the United States, they inevitably cite North Korea, writes Nautilus Security Program Officer Timothy Savage in an online article published by One Democracy.com. Savage reviews the history of the role of the DPRK threat in US policymaking, and argues that easy characterizations of the DPRK as a belligerent Stalinist "rogue state" are a poor substitute for an informed debate over the degree to which the DPRK actually has either the capacity or the intent to truly threaten US interests. The article is also published at Asia Times Online.

 
Jefferson K5 Class Discovers Bay Aboard Pegasus

Twenty four K5 students from Jefferson School in Berkeley completed a Discovery Day voyage on the Pegasus on March 7th. The Shorebird Nature Center's Denise Brown conducted at the land school of the Cal Sailing Club. Students rotated around the vessel and out onto the bowsprit. They learned about listening at-sea, tidal currents, and the local history of landfill and the Berkeley pier. Most wore the cold-weather gloves recently donated by Stearns to keep warm in the bitter southerly wind. At the end of the voyage, the students inspected the vessel below decks, including the galley, head, navstation, engine room, and sleeping quarters. Captain Bill Proctor, Jim Gaebe, Christine Albertsen, Tom Jeremiason, Peter Hayes, and Patty Donald from the Shorebird Nature Center crewed the voyage.

 
South Korean Foreign News Editor Visits Nautilus

On March 9, Ms. Tae-Son Kwon, Foreign News Editor for the Hankyoreh Shinmun, an ROK daily newspaper with a circulation of 500,000, visited the Nautilus Institute to learn about the Institute's Program on Global Peace & Security. Ms. Kwon was on a tour of the US under the auspices of the US Department of State's International Visitor Program to learn about US foreign policy toward Asia and the Korean Peninsula, and the role of non-governmental organizations and think tanks in influencing US foreign policy. Her visit to the office was arranged by the International Diplomacy Council in San Francisco.
 
 

Nautilus Authors Publish Three Chapters in Two UNU Books

"Sustainable Energy In a Developing World: The Role of Knowledgeable Markets" by Ken Wilkening, David Von Hippel, and Peter Hayes (Chapter 10); and "Energy and the Environment In Asia-Pacific: Regional Cooperation and Market Governance" by Lyuba Zarsky (Chapter 14) appear in a new volume by United Nations University Press entitled The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for International Cooperation.

"Communities, Markets, and City Government: Innovative Roles for Coastal Cities In Reducing Marine Pollution In the Asia-Pacific Region" by Lyuba Zarsky and Jason Hunter (Chapter 12) appear in a new volume by United Nations University Press entitled Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies.

 


Teachers, Volunteers Complete Training for
School Discovery Days Aboard Pegasus

Teachers, volunteers, and Pegasus crew completed a teacher training on February 26th for the forthcoming Spring sailing program of the Pegasus Project. The training was conducted by Patty Donald and Denise Brown, staff of the Shorebird Nature Center one of the partners of the Pegasus Project. The training included a tour presented by Peter Hayes, Co-Director of Nautilus Institute, of the Virtual Voyage, the on-line curriculum of the Pegasus project, and a voyage on Pegasus in a squally southerly wind driving in a big winter storm. A training on the land school for students that is part of the Shorebird's curriculum was also held at the Cal Sailing Club. The sails with school students commence on March 7 and run through early June (see Pegasus schedule).

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Nautilus Institute office framed by a rainbow, March 2, 2000

East Timor Crisis Shows Shortcomings of Regional Security Arrangements, Nautilus Article Says

The recent crisis in East Timor reveals the inadequacy of existing Asia-Pacific security arrangements to cope with regional crises, and highlights the increasing importance of the relationship of international security and human rights in the post-Cold War world.

Wade Huntley, Nautilus Program Director for Global Security, and Peter Hayes, Nautilus Executive Director, offer this conclusion in a recently published article, "East Timor and Asian Security."

The article appears in the current issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Volume 31, Nos. 1 and 2), a special issue on "East Timor, Indonesia and the World System." A plain text version of the article was also distributed as a NAPSNet Special Report.

Additional information on the crisis in East Timor can be found on the Nautilus East Timor Special Reports Page.

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Megan Keever Joins Staff

Megan Keever has joined the staff of the Nautilus Institute as Office Manager.

Megan is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) with a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution. She has participated in tropical ecology research in Costa Rica, and in Pacific Coast marine research at Scripps Institute for Oceanography. She has also worked extensively for UCSD in various administrative capacities.

Nautilus's previous Office Manager and Research Assistant, Suzanne Beck, is leaving in late March to travel in Europe. During her time at Nautilus, Suzanne has participated extensively in the Corporate Accountability project, among others, while also keeping our "front office" running smoothly.

 

Pegasus Crew Completes First Aid and CPR Training

On January 22 and February 5, 2000, about twenty volunteers from the Pegasus Project, the Shorebird Nature Center, and the Berkeley Boosters completed basic CPR and First Aid training under the direction of a Red Cross trainer, and Hypothermia Treatment training under the tutelage of Pegasus safety coordinator and paramedic Mark Caplin. The training was held at the Shorebird Nature Center in Berkeley and was designed to increase the safety level of youth sails on the Pegasus. The photo shows the group working on training dummies.

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China Specialists Complete Energy Analysis Training


Shown above, left to right: Dr. David Von Hippel; Dr. Jim Williams; Dr. Masami Nakata; Dr. Alan Lamont, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Dr. Peter Hayes; Dr. Jonathan Sinton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Dr. Yanjia Wang, Tsinghua University.

Nautilus Associate David Von Hippel presented a five-day training on the use of LEAP software with specialists on China's energy economy at the Nautilus Institute during the week ended Feb. 11, 2000. LEAP, the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system, is a software tool for integrated energy-environment and greenhouse gas mitigation analysis. Nautilus researchers have used LEAP to analyze critical energy and environment issues in East Asia.

Attending the training were Professor Yanjia Wang from Tsinghua University; Jonathan Sinton and Alan Lamont from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Nautilus Associate Jim Williams; and Nautilus staff Peter Hayes and Masami Nakata.

The participants learned how to implement energy scenarios in LEAP software, and conducted a case study of alternative energy analysis for China. The training workshop was funded by US Department of Energy and the W. Alton Jones Foundation.

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Corporate Accountability Project Report Released
The Corporate Accountability Project on Feb. 4, 2000 issued its Report on the Round Table "Hard Issues, Innovative Approaches: Improving NGO-Industry Dialogue on Corporate Responsibility and Accountability" held Nov. 9, 1999 at Stanford University. The Report summarizes the lively and provocative discussion at the Round Table, and includes a background briefing paper and list of participants.

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Nautilus Welcomes Prof. Yanjia Wang of Tsinghua University

Prof. Yanjia Wang of Tsinghua University in Beijing is working with the Nautilus Institute on the East Asia Energy Futures project for five weeks in February-March. Prof. Wang is one of China's leading energy experts. She teaches energy issues at Tsinghua University, advises the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCIECD), and is assistant director of the US/China Energy and Environmental Technology Center. During her stay in Berkeley, she is co-teaching a course on "Energy and Environment in China" at the University of California at Berkeley with Dr. Jonathan Sinton of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Nautilus Conducts Training on Energy Modeling

Nautilus research associate David von Hippel is conducting a training workshop Feb. 7-11 on the LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System) model developed by the Stockholm Environment Insitute. LEAP is one of the world's leading computer-based accounting and simulation tools designed to assist policymakers in evaluating energy policies and developing sound, sustainable energy strategies. The training will focus on China. Another LEAP training will be held in China in June. For more information, contact Masami Nakata.

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Korea Foundation Awards Grant to Nautilus for DPRK Energy Work

The Korea Foundation awarded the Nautilus Institute a $100,000 grant for the "Nexus between Energy, Environment, and Security in the DPRK" project. Under the one-year project, Nautilus will conduct research, hold seminars on DPRK energy problems and their impact on security and environmental issues, and publish the results in both paper and electronic forms. The project is part of the institute's ongoing DPRK Renewable Energy Project.

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Peace and Security Program Inaugurates NAPSNet "Week in Review"

The Nautilus Institute's Peace and Security Program announces inauguration of a new email list service as part of the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet). Currently, the NAPSNet Daily Report is issued each weekday to 2000 recipients in 30 countries throughout the world. NAPSNet's new Week in Review highlights the news and analyses covered in the Daily Report, in addition to original material that falls outside its normal purview.

The first issue was sent to NAPSNet recipients on January 21. Each issue is sent by email and is also incorporated into the main NAPSNet web page. Beginning in February, email recipients will be able to subscribe separately to the Daily Report and the Week in Review. To subscribe to either -- or both! -- of these services, visit the Nautilus Institute Signup Page.

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KTVU Features Pegasus Project

KTVU, the Bay Area Fox-TV affiliate (channel 2) broadcast a news documentary on the Pegasus Project on January 22. The program featured interviews with teenage crew from the Berkeley Boosters, Pegasus crew, and Nautilus Co-Director Peter Hayes. The documentary was produced by students in the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University, directed by Jennifer Proulx.

View Report (requires RealPlayer or RealJukebox)

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Hans Kristensen Outlines U.S. Nuclear Policy at Tokyo Conference

Nautilus Associate Hans M. Kristensen states in a recent paper that, while U.S. nuclear policy in the 1990s is rapidly changing, it remains rooted in a Cold War mentality. The paper, "U.S. Nuclear Strategy Reform in the 1990s" (available in Adobe Acrobat format here), was presented at "Denuclearization of Asia and the Role of Japan -- Issues in Realizing Nuclear-Free Asia," an international symposium organized by the Peace Research Institute at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo on 18-19 December 1999. The paper outlines the evolution of U.S. nuclear war planning during the first decade of the post-Cold War era.

Other documents available from the conference include "De-Nuclearization Challenges in Asia for the 21st Century" (Acrobat format) by Roland Simbulan, professor at the University of the Philippines and chairman of the Nuclear-Free Philippine Coalition, and "India's Draft Nuclear Doctrine: It's Implications for the Asia-Pacific" (Acrobat format) by Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Associate Professor with the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

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Marena Drlik joins Nautilus Technical Staff

Nautilus is pleased to welcome Marena Drlik as our new Information Systems Manager. Marena has more than 20 years experience in the field of computer science, guiding organizations to new levels of technological proficiency. One of her major interests is the effective use of language and computer technology in communication.

Marena works with Christine Albertsen, our Computer Network Specialist, who recently completed an advanced level of Microsoft technical certification.