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Theodore
Postol, Professor, is Professor of Science,
Technology and National Security Policy at MIT. He has
a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT and has worked as a
research physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior
to coming to MIT in 1989, he worked as an analyst at the Congressional
Office of Technology Assessment and as a science and policy
advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations. He has received
the American Physical Society’s Leo Szilard Award for “incisive
technical analysis of national security issues that [have]
been vital forinforming
the public policy debate” and the Hilliard Roderick
Prize in Science, Arms Control, and International Security
from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
for “outstanding contributions that advance our understanding
of issues related to arms control and international security.” In
2001 he received the Norbert Wiener Prize from Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility for uncovering numerous and important
false claims about missile defenses and in 2005 was awarded
the Whistleblower Award by the Federation of German Scientists
and the German Section of the International Association of
Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. His current research includes
work on ballistic missile defense technologies, fraud in the
U.S. missile defense program, and reducing nuclear dangers
in South Asia as well as those due to the deteriorating Russian
nuclear infrastructure. |
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Geoffrey
Forden,
(Ph.D, physics), Research Associate, Dr. Forden has
been at MIT since 2000 where his research includes the analysis of Russian
and Chinese space systems as well as trying to understand how proliferators
acquire the know-how and industrial infrastructure to produce weapons
of mass destruction. In 2002-2003, Dr. Forden spent a year on
leave from MIT serving as the first Chief of Multidiscipline Analysis
Section for UNMOVIC, the UN agency responsible for verifying and monitoring
the dismantlement of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Previous to
coming to MIT, he was a strategic weapons analyst in the National Security
Division of the Congressional Budget Office after having worked at
a number of international particle accelerator centers. |
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Subrata
Ghoshroy, Research Associate, joined the MIT
group in 2005. He is leading the Promoting Nuclear Stability
in South Asia Project. In addition to directing the project,
he will also be focusing on the impact of missile defenses
and space weaponization on global security – where there
is much common ground between India and Pakistan. Before joining
MIT, Mr. Ghoshroy was a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs. He has also been a Senior
Defense Analyst at the Government Accountability Office for
a number of years. Subrata also served as a Congressional Fellow
under the AAAS program. Later, he served as a staff member
of the House International Relations Committee and the House
Armed Services Committee where he worked on issues of non-proliferation,
arms control, South Asian security, ballistic missile defense,
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, nuclear weapons stockpile
stewardship, laser weapons, chemical weapons demilitarization,
and landmines. He was also responsible for monitoring
and evaluating budget and policy matters related to Military
Research and Development (RDT&E) using his expertise to
carry out comprehensive evaluations of complex weapons systems
that incorporate state-of-the-art technology. Prior
to his transition to the policy world, Subrata worked more
than 20 years as an engineer and an engineering-manager in
developing high-power and high-energy laser, electron beam,
and pulse power technologies and has a highly successful track
record in managing sophisticated, interdisciplinary teams to
develop advanced technology for DOD, DOE, and NASA. He
holds master's degrees in both electrical engineering and public
policy. |
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James
Goodby, Research Affiliate, was President Clinton’s
special Ambassador and Chief United States Negotiator for the
Safe and Secure Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons. He
negotiated arrangements with Russia so that the process of
nuclear weapons dismantlement could be transparent and irreversible
and also worked with countries of the former Soviet Union to
enhance security and accounting for fissile material and nuclear
warheads. As head of the U.S. delegation to the Stockholm
Conference on Confidence-and Security-Building Measures and
Disarmament in Europe in 1984-85, he negotiated the framework
that laid the basis for later negotiations on conventional
force reductions in Europe. His awards include the Presidential
Distinguished Service Award, the State Department’s Superior
and Distinguished Honor Awards, and the Commander’s Cross
of the Order of Merit of Germany. He is a Distinguished
Fellow of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a winner of the Heinz
Award in Public Policy and was the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne
Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University. |
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Lisbeth
Gronlund, Research Affiliate, is a Senior Scientist
and Co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union
of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Research
Associate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Program in Science, Technology and Society.. She holds a Ph.D.
in physics from Cornell University. Her recent research has
focused on technical issues related to ballistic missile defenses,
international fissile material controls, new nuclear weapons
and nuclear arms control. Dr. Gronlund is a Fellow of the American
Physical Society (APS), which is the professional association
of 42,000 physicists. She is the co-recipient of the 2001 Joseph
A. Burton Forum Award of the APS "for creative and sustained
leadership in building an international arms-control-physics
community and for her excellence in arms control physics." She
helped establish and is a primary organizer of the International
Summer Symposiums on Science and World Affairs, which each
year since 1989 have brought together some 40 young scientists
working on international security issues from different countries.
These meetings are designed to help foster a new--and in some
countries, a first--generation of independent scientists with
expertise in arms control and security issues and to create
an international community of technical researchers working
on these issues. |
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Danielle
Mancini, Program Associate, came
to MIT in 2004 with a background in higher education administration
and international education. Most recently, Ms. Mancini was
a senior program coordinator at Boston University's International
Students and Scholars Office. Prior to that she worked at the
Harvard Business School. She took part in study abroad programs
in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Spain while attending Central
Connecticut State University and after graduating with a degree
in Spanish, moved to Costa Rica where she taught English as
a Foreign Language. Since relocating to Boston in 1999, she
has volunteered with the refugee resettlement organization
International Rescue Committee as an immigration aid, Centro
Presente as an ESL teacher, and the Cambridge Community Learning
Center as an adult literacy tutor. She has traveled throughout
Central America, the Caribbean, and western Europe. |
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Marvin
Miller, Research Affiliate, received a Ph.D
in Applied Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York
in 1967, and was a tenured Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Purdue University working on laser theory and
applications before joining the MIT Nuclear Engineering Department
(NED) in 1976. He retired from the position of Senior
Research Scientist in the NED in 1996, and became a Research
Affiliate both with NED and the Security Studies Program (SSP)
at the MIT Center for International Studies. He is now
a Research Affiliate with NED and the Science, Technology and
Society (STS) Program at MIT where he continues his work on
nuclear arms control and the linkage between nuclear power
and nuclear proliferation as a member of the Science and Technology
Working Group. During his affiliation with MIT, Dr. Miller
has been a consultant to the Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Argonne
National Laboratories, the U.S. Departments of State and Energy,
and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and is currently
still active as a consultant to the Nonproliferation Bureau
of the State Department. |
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Jørn
Siljeholm, Research Affiliate, was trained
in environmental chemistry, risk analysis and toxicology (University
of Oslo, 1998). He served as a weapons inspector in
Iraq with the United Nations (UNMOVIC) from 2002-2003 and as
an environmental chemist and environmental advisor for Esso
Norway refineries, as an advisor to CONCAWE, the European oil
companies’ joint research organization, and as Executive
Vice President for Communications at Norway’s largest
finance company, Storebrand. He was executive director
of Naturevernforbundet, the Norwegian Society for the Conservation
of Nature, and chaired the Norwegian Research Organization
for Pharmacology and Toxicology. Leading up to the 1992
UN Conference on Environment and Development, he authored the
statement of non-governmental organizations. He is currently
working on problems of environmental hazards created by military
enterprises, and he is an advisor to the Norwegian government
on matters of cooperative threat reduction and foreign policy. |
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Sir
John Thomson, Research Affiliate served as
the United Kingdom Ambassador to India and as the Permanent
Representative in the United Nations. He has also been
Head of Policy and Planning in the British Diplomatic Service,
and a Minister at NATO. Sir John Thomson joined the British
Foreign Service in 1950. During that career, he served
in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and London, becoming Private
Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary in the Foreign Office. Following
four years of politico-military work in Washington, he became
Head of Policy Planning in the Foreign Office, Chief of the
Assessments Staff in the Cabinet Office, Minister at NATO and
Under-Secretary for defense and disarmament in the Foreign
Office. While at NATO he also led the British delegation
to the MBFR negotiations in Vienna. He was High Commissioner
(i.e. ambassador) to India for five years, and finally spent
five years as Permanent Representative and Ambassador at the
UN. He retired on his 60th birthday in 1987. Subsequently,
he led a CSCE mission to Bosnia (1992) and participated in
another to Albania (1994). |
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David
Wright, Research Affiliate, is Senior Scientist
and Co-Director of the Global Security Program at the Union
of Concerned Scientists, and a Research Associate in the Program
in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He received his
PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from Cornell University
in 1983, and worked as a research physicist for five years
before beginning to work full-time on security issues. Prior
to joining UCS and MIT in 1992, he held positions in the Center
for Science and International Affairs in the Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University (1988-90), and at the Federation
of American Scientists (1990-2). Dr. Wright’s expertise
includes space security, ballistic missile defense, ballistic
missile proliferation, and U.S. nuclear weapons policy. A second
major focus of his work has been helping to increase the number
of technical analysts worldwide who work on security issues,
and since 1990 he has been a co-organizer of the International
Summer Symposiums on Science and World Affairs. For this work
and his technical analysis, he was awarded the American Physical
Society’s Joseph A. Burton Forum Award in 2001. He also
developed and oversees a fellowship program that brings Chinese
scientists to the United States to work with US researchers
on security issues, both on twelve-month and shorter fellowships.
Dr. Wright is a fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Massachusetts
Institute of Technology • Science, Technology and Global Security
Working Group