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Henry D. Sokolski

Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Former Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

 

Professional Experience


  • Member, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (2008) 
  • Member, U.S. Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1999)
  • Member, Senior Advisory Panel, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1989-1993)
  • Chairman of the Department of Defense’s Proliferation Countermeasures Working Group

Professor Sokolski is the author of Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation,1945-2000.

Education


  • B.A., 1972, Pomona College
  • M.A., 1980, University of Chicago

Courses


  Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: History, Technology, and Policy

Publications


  Prof. Sokolski in WSJ: India Unmasks America's Nuclear Liabilities
  Prof. Sokolski writes about "America's Nuclear Vietnam" in National Review Online
  Prof. Sokolski's article "Missiles for Peace" in Armed Forces Journal
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Books


  Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
  Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
  Beyond Nunn-Lugar
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Expert Areas

  • Nonproliferation
  • Proliferation
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Arms Control

Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: History, Technology, and Policy

This course examines the problem of preventing the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, delivery systems, and associated technologies. The course addresses these issues historically, technically, and analytically. The first part of the course focuses on nations and technologies of concern, why they are, and what specific security threats proliferation poses. The second part examines how we have attempted to prevent proliferation and what successes and difficulties we have had in these efforts. The final part examines what other approaches might be taken to mitigate proliferation economically, politically, and militarily.

Principal Professor

  Henry D. Sokolski

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