For a Secure Future: Ending the Nuclear Threat In this session, we explored the critical topic of nuclear disarmament and its implications for global security and environmental sustainability. We discussed the pressing need for people everywhere to have the right to a safe and secure future, free from the threat of nuclear weapons, and explore how this ties into broader efforts to protect our planet from the devastating consequences of war. Our Guest Speaker: Dr. Sara Z. Kutchesfahani is the Director of Programs at Ploughshares, the only fund singularly focused on reducing the threat of nuclear weapons, where she leads the grantmaking team. She has 20 years of professional and academic experience in the fields of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security, holding research, analysis, teaching, and managerial positions at a national nuclear weapons laboratory, an NGO, a university, and at various think tanks around the world. This diverse background is a clear indication of her openness to learning new processes and approaches. She has a PhD in Political Science from University College London and is the author of Global Nuclear Order (Routledge: 2019) and Politics and the Bomb: The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements (Routledge: 2014), as well as numerous scholarly and policy articles.