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by Emma Farné Roma07 October 2019The risk of nuclear proliferation and the possible scenarios after the announcement of Russia and the United States to cancel the Inf Treaty , international cooperation on non-proliferation and the role of scientific diplomacy. Current issues that, in difficult times for arms control, are discussed today and tomorrow at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.

The participants
On the podium, global players in the field of nuclear safety: NATO executives, Iaea (with former general director Mohamed El Baradei), the European Union (with the High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, Federica Mogherini) , the Cern with the director Fabiola Giannotti and the Nobel Prize for Physics 2017 Barry Barish. The CTBTO, Pugwash (Nobel Peace Prize 1995), ICAN (Nobel Prize for Peace 2017) and representatives of the National Committees for Atomic Energy of China, South Korea, France, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, United United Kingdom and the Trump and Putin administrations.

The direct Rai
Rai is media-partner of the event. The opening of the conference was broadcast on Rainews.it. The event is organized under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Research Council, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.

The Edoardo Amaldi Conference
Since 1988, every two years the Edoardo Amaldi conference organizes meetings on the subject of nuclear non-proliferation, on scientific and security cooperation. The meeting is named after Edoardo Amaldi, first president of the Union of Scientists for Disarmament, founded in 1982. This year the theme is on international cooperation to increase nuclear safety and non-proliferation.