Aspen Public Radio was proud to present NPR's Mike Shuster in a conversation on nuclear non-proliferation, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction on February 24 at the Given Institute in Aspen and February 25 in Glenwood Springs.

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Mike Shuster is NPR’s leading journalist on nuclear non-proliferation, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. In recent years, Mr. Shuster helped shape NPR's extensive coverage of the Middle East as one of the leading reporters to cover this region - traveling in the spring of 2007 to Iraq to cover the increased deployment of American forces in Baghdad. He has traveled frequently to Iran - seven times since 2004 - to report on Iran's nuclear program and political changes there. He has also reported frequently from Israel, covering the 2006 war with Hezbollah, the pullout from Gaza in 2005, and the second intifada that erupted in 2000. His 2007 weeklong series "The Partisans of Ali" explored the history of Shi'ite faith and politics, providing a rare, comprehensive look at the complexities of the Islamic religion and its impact on the Western world.

Through his reporting for NPR, Mr. Shuster has also taken listeners to India and Pakistan, the Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, and the Congo. He was NPR's senior Moscow correspondent in the early 1990s, when he covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and a wide range of political, economic, and social issues in Russia and the other independent states of the former Soviet Union.

Award winning journalist Mike Shuster joined NPR in 1980. This is Mr. Shuster's second visit to Aspen on behalf of Aspen Public Radio.


Corporate support for this event is generously provided by Bessemer Trust's Denver Office.