BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260820T140437Z UID:20902F9A-4CFF-4FEA-A9B1-D2F4B89128AB DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T123000 DESCRIPTION:For our first Creative Minds Webinar\, we discuss Highly Enrich ed Uranium which is central to today's conflict in Iran. The Reagan - Gorb achev meeting in Reykjavík in 1986 set the stage for the fall of the Sovi et Union and a disarmament program between the USA and Russia. One of the goals of this effort was to prevent Proliferation to countries like Iran. David Bondurant describes meetings in Russia in November 1990 that were pa rt of this story.\n\nProject Sapphire - The Untold Store\n\nPreventing Bra in Drain & Securing Nuclear Materials\n\nDavid Bondurant\, Life Senior Mem ber\n\n60 Minutes recently told the story of Project Sapphire\, a covert m ission in 1994 to transport 600 Kg of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) from K azakhstan to prevent nuclear proliferation to countries such as Iran and N orth Korea following the end of the Soviet Union. This effort was part an even bigger effort to prevent brain drain of key scientists and secure nuc lear materials in the newly independent states from terrorism. I will desc ribe a visit to Russia in 1990 which led to the Global Initiative for Prol iferation Protection (GIPP) and a program called the US Industry Coalition (USIC) which put weapons scientists in Russia and the Newly Independent S tates of the Soviet Union to work on peaceful programs and secured nuclear materials. This on-going effort by the National Nuclear Security Agency ( NNSA) to secure HEU continues today at the center of the current Middle Ea st conflict.\n\nSpeaker(s): David Bondurant\, \n\nAgenda: \nPresentation\n \nQuestions & Answers\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/573024 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/573024 ORGANIZER:dbondurant@ieee.org SEQUENCE:52 SUMMARY:Curious Minds Webinar I - Life Members URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/573024 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><em><span style="color: rgb(224\, 62\, 45) \;"><strong>For our first Creative Minds Webinar\, we discuss Highly Enric hed Uranium which is central to today's conflict in Iran. &nbsp\;The Reaga n - Gorbachev meeting in Reykjav&iacute\;k in 1986 set the stage for the f all of the Soviet Union and a disarmament program between the USA and Russ ia. &nbsp\;One of the goals of this effort was to prevent Proliferation to countries like Iran. &nbsp\;David Bondurant describes meetings in Russia in November 1990 that were part of this story.</strong></span></em></p>\n< p><strong>Project Sapphire - The Untold Store</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Pre venting Brain Drain &amp\; Securing Nuclear Materials</strong></p>\n<p>Dav id Bondurant\, Life Senior Member</p>\n<p><strong>60 Minutes</strong> rece ntly told the story of <strong>Project Sapphire</strong>\, a covert missio n in 1994 to transport 600 Kg of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) from Kazakh stan to prevent nuclear proliferation to countries such as Iran and North Korea following the end of the Soviet Union.<span class="Apple-converted-s pace">&nbsp\; </span>This effort was part an even bigger effort to prevent brain drain of key scientists and secure nuclear materials in the newly i ndependent states from terrorism.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp \; </span>I will describe a visit to Russia in 1990 which led to the Globa l Initiative for Proliferation Protection (GIPP) and a program called the US Industry Coalition (USIC) which put weapons scientists in Russia and th e Newly Independent States of the Soviet Union to work on peaceful program s and secured nuclear materials.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp\ ; </span>This on-going effort by the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNS A) to secure HEU continues today at the center of the current Middle East conflict.</p>\n<p><img src="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools_ui/media /display/d4675d27-4e96-4d52-8c10-95f50ff22c43"></p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>Presentation</p>\n<p>Questions &amp\; Answers</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR