Topic: Henry Sokolski
Quotes
This brave new, nuclear world may be anything but peaceful
Obama to push arms control agenda Feb 22, 2009
If you cannot trust a country not to break its pledges not to make bombs, you ultimately have no way of ensuring that they won't
The nuclear cycle and the hostility cycle Jul 10, 2008
There's a reason the U.S. intelligence community and international inspectors have been repeatedly cold-cocke
Report urges tough safeguards for global nuclear power expansion Jul 09, 2008
There's a reason no one in the private sector wants to do this with their own money
Report urges U.S. to embrace nuclear power growth, despite risks Jul 08, 2008
Working with plutonium requires special safety measures which are very expensive
Report urges U.S. to embrace nuclear power growth, despite risks Jul 08, 2008
Henry D. Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policymakers, scholars and the media. He was appointed by the U.S. Congress to serve on the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and terrorism, which filed its final report in December of 2008.
Sokolski served from 1989 to 1993 as the Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and later received the Secretary of Defense's Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Prior to this, he worked in the Secretary's Office of Net Assessment on proliferation issues.
In addition to his Executive Branch service, Sokolski served from 1984 through 1988 as Senior Military Legislative Aide to Senator Dan Quayle, and as Special Assistant on Nuclear Energy Matters to Senator Gordon J. Humphrey from 1982 through 1983.
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