Theodore Postol

Room	E38-620
Phone	617-253-8077
Email	postol@mit.edu
website	Technical Working Group (TWG)

Professor Postol was educated at MIT (S.B., Physics, 1967; Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering and Physics, 1975) and joined the MIT faculty in 1989. His work covers a broad range of topics in international security policy, including studies of missile basing modes, nuclear attack, missile-bearing submarines, missile defense and early warning systems and the consequences of secrecy in military research. His current work focuses on the relationship between changing military technologies and the altered international security situation.

Dr. Postol received the American Physical Society's Leo Szilard Award in 1990 for "incisive technical analysis of national security issues that [have] been vital for informing the public policy debate." He is also the recipient of the 1995 Hilliard Roderick Prize in Science, Arms Control, and International Security from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for "outstanding contributions that advance our understanding of issues related to arms control and international security...that have important scientific or technical dimensions."

In 2001, he won the Norbert Wiener Prize from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for his work exposing false claims about the performance of the Patriot missile defense in the Gulf War of 1991 and for later work exposing hidden problems with the currently under development National Missile Defense System.