Sharon Squassoni, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, updates participants of the panel on the status of nuclear energy programs in the region with her presentation “Realities and Risks of Nuclear Power in the Middle East”. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Georgetown Institute for International Law and Politics sponsored a panel discussion on setting the legal stage for the expansion of nuclear energy programs in the Middle East at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2009.