On October 19–20, 2022, the Geneva Center for Politics and Security (GCSP), Russian PIR Center, and U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey (CNS/MIIS) hosted the international conference "Sixty Years of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for the 21st Century".
The conference focused on the underlying and immediate causes of the October 1962 crisis, the factors that made it possible to avert nuclear war, similarities and differences between the crisis in 1962 and 2022, prospects for maintaining and further developing strategic arms control mechanisms, and other issues.
On October 19–20, 2022, the Geneva Center for Politics and Security (GCSP), Russian PIR Center, and U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey (CNS/MIIS) hosted the international conference "Sixty Years of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for the 21st Century".
The conference focused on the underlying and immediate causes of the October 1962 crisis, the factors that made it possible to avert nuclear war, similarities and differences between the crisis in 1962 and 2022, prospects for maintaining and further developing strategic arms control mechanisms, and other issues.
Several RIAC members spoke at the event, including Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States; Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security at IMEMO RAS; Evgeny Buzhinsky, Chairman of PIR Center Board; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Vladimir Orlov, PIR Center Director, MGIMO Professor; as well as the following experts: Elena Chernenko, Special correspondent at the Kommersant daily newspaper; and Andrey Sushentsov, Dean of the School of International Relations at MGIMO University.
