WARD WILSON
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
Overall total for the period from 2010 to 2016, nearly a million dollars. Grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. Six years totally roughly $650,000 in support of writing, research and public speaking. Project funding from the Foreign Ministry of Switzerland. Four years totally roughly $200,000 in support of reports and papers.
Other grants and funded projects. Primarily from domestic sources, but some additional foreign sources: roughly $140,000.
Winner, Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Essay Challenge 2008. An international competition with entries from 11 countries and across the US for the best original essay on nonproliferation. First prize awarded to “The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence” along with a cash award of $10,000.
Robert Kennedy Fellow, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, 1982.
BOOKS
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). (Available in French as Armes Nucléaires: et si elles ne Servaient à Rien?, (Bruxelles: Les Lives du GRIP, 2015). Translated by Danièle Fayer-Stern, with a forward by former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard).
”Stable at Zero: Enforcing a World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” chapter in Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty, edited by Barry Blechman, (Washington, DC: The Stimson Center, 2010).
REPORTS
“Stable at Zero,” in Security in a World without Nuclear Weapons: Visions and Challenges, edited by David Atwood and Emily J. Munro, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Dec. 2013, pp. 21-28.
“Strengthening Nonproliferation,” British American Security Council (BASIC), October 16, 2013. Study commissioned by the Swiss Foreign Ministry.
Ken Berry, Patricia Lewis, Benoit Pelopidas, Nikolai Sokov and Ward Wilson, ”Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: Examining the Validity of Nuclear Deterrence,” The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, May 2010. Study commissioned by the Swiss Foreign Ministry.
ARTICLES
“Should public opinion polls influence America’s nuclear policy?” The Hill, November 18, 2021.
“Why We Need a Fundamental Reappraisal of Nuclear Weapons Policy,” The Hill, October 3, 2021.
“Why Arms Control is Dead,” The Hill, July 9, 2021.
“Putting Hiroshima Back in the Box,” Inkstick, August 6th, 2021.
“How to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Part IV: Imagining an Alternative World,” InkStick, April 9, 2021.
“How to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Part III: Doubting Our Faith in Deterrence,” InkStick, April 5, 2021.
“How to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Part II: The Useless Tool,” InkStick, April 2, 2021.
“How to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Part I: We Are Not Trapped,” InkStick, March 29, 2021.
“Why the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Makes a Difference,” Pressenza, January 22, 2021.
“The Hidden Stumbling Block to Progress on Nuclear Weapons,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 16, 2020.
“There is Nothing Magical About Nuclear Weapons” InkStick, Jessica Sleight, Ward Wilson, Derek Johnson, August 24, 2020.
“A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Pipe Dream? Or Inevitability?” InkStick, February 4, 2020.
“The Logic of Mad,” a reply to “MAD-Made World” by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Inference: International Review of Science, vol. 3, issue 4, (February 2018).
“Nuclear Deterrence Will Fail,” The Nation, August 11, 2017.
“How Nuclear Realists Falsely Frame the Nuclear Weapons Debate,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 7, 2015.
“Why Are There No Big Nuke Protests?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 1, 2015.
“The Age of Frustration,” Foreign Policy, November 13, 2014.
“Did Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki Save Lives?” The Diplomat, August 25, 2014.
“Debating Nuclear Deterrence,” Survival, vol. 56, no. 2, (April-May 2014): 225-228.
“The Gordian Knot: Moral Debate and Nuclear Weapons,” Ethics and International Affairs, September 1, 2013.
“Ce n'est pas la bombe atomique qui a poussé le Japon à capituler,” Slate [France], June 7, 2013.
“The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan . . . Stalin Did,” Foreign Policy, May 29, 2013.
"Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons,” Parameters, May 1, 2013.
“Military Wisdom and Nuclear Weapons,” Joint Force Quarterly, January 18, 2013.
“Myth, Hiroshima, and Fear: How We Overestimated the Usefulness of the Bomb,” Cadmus, Vol. 1, Issue 5, October 2012, pp. 145-149.
“Continuing to Question the Reliability of Nuclear Deterrence,” The Nonproliferation Review, (Volume 19, Issue 1), February 17, 2012, pp. 69-74.
“Questions about Nuclear Deterrence,” FAS Public Interest Report, Federation of American Scientists, March 2011.
Book Review, “Fear Power: A review of Gary Wills’ Bomb Power,” Dissent, web edition.
Book Review, “Designing Denuclearization: An Interpretive Encyclopedia and Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate,” The Nonproliferation Review, 16, no. 2 (July 2009): 303-307.
“The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence,”The Nonproliferation Review, 15, no. 3 (November 2008): 421-439.
Correspondence “Do Small Arsenals Deter?” International Security, vol. 32, no. 3 (Winter 2007/08): 202-214.
“The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima,”International Security, vol. 31, no. 4 (Spring 2007): 162-179. (This article was, for nearly a year, one of the five most downloaded articles on International Security’s website.)
“Banning the Bomb: A New Approach,”Dissent, (Winter 2007): 65-69. (Selected for inclusion in McGraw Hill’s Annual Editions: Global Issues 08/09, “current articles selected from the best of the public press.”)
“Nuclear Ignorance,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1981. (Reprinted in Education Week under the title “High Schools Should Teach the Facts About Nuclear Weapons,” January 26, 1982.)
OP-EDS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC
“In an Age of 'Smart' Weapons, We Can Live Without Nukes,” United Press International, July 19, 2016.
“Atomvеpen-romantikerne” Dagsavisen [Norway], May 12, 2015
“Norges nei til Kjernefysisk Nedrustning” Dagbladet [Norway], January 5, 1016.
“Return of the Cold War?” United Press International, May 19, 2014.
“Iran’s Symbolic Nuclear Weapons,” United Press International, December 6, 2013.
“La autoridad especial de Costa Rica,” Diario Extra [Costa Rica], May 18, 2013.
”The Nuclear Deterrence Bubble,” WMD Junction, Monterey Institute of International Studies. (With Patricia Lewis.)
“Myth of Nuclear Necessity” New York Times, Opinion page, January 14, 2013.
“Verification Lay at the Heart of Sound New Pact,” Nashville Tennesseean, Opinion page, July 20, 2010.
“Carrying the Facts Too Far,” Letters to the Editor, New York Times, October 23, 2010.
Correspondence, The Nonproliferation Review, 16, no. 2 (July 2009): 131-139.
“Bombs Raise No Special Fear,” Letters to the Editor, Boston Globe, March 25, 2009.
“Bush Overstates Threat Posed by a Nuclear Iran,” The Iran Times, (October 17, 2008
“Bush Overstates Threat Posed by a Nuclear Iran,” The Chicago Tribune (Sunday, September 14, 2008).
“A-bomb Didn’t Win the War,” The Chicago Tribune (Sunday, August 10, 2008).
FILM
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons, A Documentary by Álvaro Orús, 2019.
Six Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Short documentary by Talkworks, filmed in London, November 5, 2010.
Rethinking Nuclear Weapons, documentary, International Law Policy Institute, Oslo, November 22, 2011.
TELEVISION
“¿Se rindió Japón en 1945 por el uso de bombas atómicas por parte de EEUU?,” The DNA of the News, September 17, 2021. (Most of Latin America, originating in Bolivia.)
“What to Do About North Korea,” The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, September 14, 2017. (regional Canadian TV in Ontario.)
“Ward Wilson on GCTV,” Global Connections Television with Bill Miller, January 14, 2016.
“Dropping A-bomb?” Worlds Apart with Oksana Boyko, RT (international Russian TV), August 8, 2015.
“A World Without Nukes,” The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, August 7, 2014.
“The Myth of Hiroshima,” The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, August 6, 2014.
Interview, Sin Rodeos, (Costa Rican national TV), May 14, 2013.
“Nuclear Weapons,” The Link, (Iranian national TV), April 14, 2010.
RADIO
“Nuked Week,” Stand Up with Pete Dominick (Sirius XM radio), March 27, 2015.
“Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” Access Utah with Tom Williams, Utah Public Radio October 16, 2013.
“Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” Topical Currents, WLRN, Miami, June 4, 2013.
“Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation,” Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane, WHYY, Philadelphia, February 21, 2013.
“Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” The Forum, KQED, January 24, 2013.
“The Truth About Nuclear Necessity,” The Daily Circuit, MNPR (Minnesota), January 22, 2013.
“Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” The Roundtable with Joe Donahue, WAMC, January 16, 2013.
“Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC (New York), January 14, 2013.
“Rethinking Nuclear Weapons,” America, Armed and Free, KVOI-AM (Tucson), August 12, 2007.
“Rethinking Hiroshima,” WCCO-AM (Minnesota), August 1, 2007.
“Rethinking Hiroshima,” WOND-AM (Atlantic City, NJ), July 26, 2007.
PODCASTS
“A Realist Guide to Eliminating Nuclear Weapons,” Disrupt: A Revolutionary Critical Podcast, October 8, 2021.
“The Realist Case for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons,” Peace Podcast, August 12, 2021.
“Realism and Abolition,” To Save the World podcast, April 23, 2021.
“Time to End the Nuclear Weapons Delusion,” The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show, November 11, 2019.
“Everything You Know About Nukes is Wrong,” The Political Orphanage with Andrew Heaton, May 30, 2019.
“Interview,” Off the Shelf with Yvonne Wolf, GVTV (Glenview, IL), September 17, 2018.
“Nuclear Weapons,” Bottom Up with Rob Kall, May 23, 2012.
COVERAGE
“Five Nuclear Myths: Outdated Weapons Not Gods,” Asahi Shimbun, September 14, 2015.
“Was du über Atomwaffen weisst, Stimmt Wahrscheinlich Nicht?” Krautreporter, August 26, 2015.
“Nuclear Peace: Mankind’s Most Dangerous Bluff?” Dunya News (Pakistan), August 6, 2015.
“Was Nuclear Weapon Use in Hiroshima Really a Turning Point in World War 2?” The Diplomat, August 6, 2015.
“Le Pouvoir des Armes Nucléaires est Avant Tout Dans nos Têtes,” Le Vif [Belgium], March 27, 2015.
“Hervé Morin veut une « Révolution Copernicienne » contre la Prolifération Nucléaire,” Le Monde, June 20, 2014.
“The Nuclear Deterrence Works Fantasy,” Daily Times (Pakistan), January 20, 2014.
“Bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki was a Crime,” The Times of Oman, January 16, 2014.
“The Four Straw Men of the Apocalypse,” Survival, (Volume 55, Issue 6), 2013.
“Fathoming Iran’s Nuclear Intentions,” Al-Monitor, November 18, 2013.
“Nuclear Winter of Our Discontent,” Time Magazine, May 22, 2013.
“Arms Control and Other Norms,” The Washington Quarterly, Spring, 2013.
“Book Review: Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons,” Arms Control Today, April 15, 2013.
“Kazakhstan’s Story is So Important Because It Disproves the Notion that Nuclear Weapons are Important,” Astana Times [Kazakhstan], March 27, 2013.
“Costa Rica es importante en tema del desarme nuclear,” Cambio Politico [Costa Rica], May 22, 2013.
Op-ed, La Extra (national newspaper, Costa Rica), May 20, 2013.
“How to Win an Argument about Nuclear Weapons,” Pressenza, March 22, 2013.
Letters to the editor (4) in response to “The Myth of Nuclear Necessity,” The New York Times, January 20, 2013.
“On the Uselessness of Nuclear Weapons,” Scientific American, January 13, 2013.
“Rethinking the Unthinkable,” The New York Times (book review), January 11, 2013.
“Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence,” The National Interest, October 19, 2011.
“Why Did World War II End?” Mother Jones, August 19, 2011.
“Why Did Japan Surrender?” The Boston Globe, August 7, 2011.
“The Beautiful Mind of Freeman Dyson,” Discover Magazine, June 8, 2008.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Winnetka Rotary Club, Winnetka, IL, September 2, 2021.
Guest Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 26, 2019.
Covenant Village, Northbrook, IL, September 23, 2019
Orlando Community Center, Orlando, FL August 6, 2019
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, May 23, 2019.
Naval War College, Newport, RI, May 8, 2019
Stimson Center, Washington, DC, May 2, 2019
First Plymouth Church, Lincoln, NE, April 20, 2019
Northfield Rotary, Northfield, IL, March 28, 2019
New York Military Affairs Symposium, New York, February 22,1019
Mexican Consulate, New York, February 22, 2019
Guest Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 22, 2019
Lake Shore Unitarian Society, Winnetka, IL January 27, 2019
North Shore Senior Center, Northfield, IL October 23, 2018
Winnetka Presbyterian Church, May 31, 2018.
Pugwash France, Paris, France, January 24, 2017.
Initiatives pour le Désarmement Nucléaire Conference, Paris, France, January 23, 2017.
ICAN France Conference, Paris, France, October 22, 2016.
Coalition for Peace Action, Princeton, NJ, May 26, 2016.
Model UN, Princeton Junction, NJ April 23, 2016
Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 17, 2016.
Boston Cambridge Central Square Library, Boston, MA, February 16, 2016.
Guest Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 10, 2015.
Global Zero, Des Moines, IA, November 8, 2015.
Belgian Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, October 23, 2015.
GRIP, Brussels, Belgium, October 21, 2015.
Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France, October 20, 2015.
Sorbonne, Paris, France, October 19, 2015.
PPND Conference, Senate Chamber, Czech Senate, Prague, Czech Republic, October 16, 2015.
Diplomatic Academy, Prague, Czech Republic, October 8, 2015.
Prague Agenda, Foreign Ministry, Prague, Czech Republic, October 7, 2015.
Latin American Diplomats, Mexico City, Mexico, July 17, 2015.
“Doubts about Nuclear Weapons,” Foreign Ministry of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, July 16, 2015.
OPANAL, Mexico City, Mexico, July 14, 2015.
Global Zero Action Team conference, New York, May 2, 2015.
“War Will Come,” United Nations, New York, April 30, 2015.
Guest Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 28, 2015.
Closed Seminar, Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France, March 5, 2015.
French book launch, GRIP, Brussels, Belgium, March 4, 2015.
NSquare, Sausalito, CA, January 21, 2015.
BASIC Roundtable, London, UK, December 19, 2014.
Guest Lecture, George Mason University, October 21, 2014.
BASIC Roundtable, Quaker House, New York, October 8, 2014.
IPPNW Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, August 27, 2014.
Lecture, Scottish National Parliament, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 5, 2014.
Arrêtez la Bomb Conference, Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France, June 26, 2014.
Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna, Austria, May 26, 2014.
Guest Lecture local high school, Vienna, Austria, May 22, 2014.
Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Vienna, Austria, May 22, 2014.
Middle East Free Zone side event, PrepCom, United Nations, May 7, 2014.
“Deterrence Failures,” PrepCom, United Nations, New York, May 1, 2014.
Science for Peace, Toronto, Canada, March 25, 2014.
Central Technical School, Toronto, Canada, March 25, 2014.
Conferencia CentroAmericana Para La Paz, San Jose, Costa Rica, March 4, 2014.
Notre Dame Global Zero, South Bend, IN, February 27, 2014.
Perry Project, Menlo Park, CA, February 24, 2013.
BASIC Roundtable, London, UK, December 20, 2013.
Guest lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 25, 2013.
Community Center, Haifa, Israel, November 17, 2013.
“Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” Hipster Bar, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 16, 2013.
Seminar, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, November 5, 2013.
Nagasaki Global Citizen’s Assembly, Nagasaki, Japan, November 3, 2013.
Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, First Episcopal Church, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 18, 2013.
Salt Lake City Book Fair, Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 17, 2013.
Utah Valley University, “Nuclear Weapons: A Pragmatic Re-evaluation,” Salt Lake City, Utah, October 17, 2013.
“Strengthening Nonproliferation,” Side event at the First Committee, United Nations, New York, NY, October 16, 2013.
Roundtable of the American Security Project, Washington, DC, October 3, 2013.
United Nations Association, Newtown, Pennsylvania, September 25, 2013.
Norwegian Peoples Aid, Oslo, Norway, September 17, 2013.
Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Oslo, Norway, September 13, 2013.
Swiss Foreign Ministry, Bern, Switzerland, September 11, 2013.
Debate with Sir Lawrence Freedman, Chatham House, London, United Kingdom, July 25, 2013.
Colloquium, Naval War College, Newport, RI, July 23, 2013.
Perry Foundation, Palo Alto, California, June 20, 2013.
Marty Helman Group, Palo Alto, California, June 20, 2013.
Books and Books, Miami, Florida, June 5, 2013.
University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 27, 2013.
United Nations University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 23, 2013.
Moreno Cañas Clinic, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 23, 2013.
CEDAL, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 22, 2013.
Mayors for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 22, 2013.
National Assembly of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 21, 2013.
National Psychiatric Hospital, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 21, 2013.
Foreign Ministry of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 20, 2013.
Opening address of the Open Ended Working Group, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, May 14, 2013.
Prepcom Event, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, April 24, 2013.
Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, Minnesota, April 11, 2013.
Unity Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 10, 2013.
Coalition for Peace Action, Unitarian Church, Princeton, New Jersey, April 7, 2013.
Global Relations Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, March 26, 2013.
BASIC Gulf States Roundtable, Istanbul, Turkey, March 25, 2013.
North Atlantic Treaty Association, Oslo, Norway, March 7, 2013.
Defense Committee, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2013.
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Stortinget, Oslo, Norway, March 4, 2013.
ICAN conference, Oslo, Norway, March 3, 2013.
Norwegian Youth Party Conference, Oslo, Norway, February 28, 2013.
Norwegian Peoples’ Aid Society, Youth Conference, Oslo, Norway, February 27, 2013.
A-10 Directorate, the Pentagon, Washington, DC, February 22, 2013.
Book talk, United Nations, New York, New York, February 20, 2013.
American University, Washington, DC, February 14, 2013.
Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, Massachusets, January 29, 2013.
Managing the Atom, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University, January 28, 2013.
Books Inc. Berkeley, CA, January 24, 2013.
Kepler’s Books, Palo Alto, CA, January 23, 2013.
Stimson Center, Washington, DC, January 18, 2013.
U.S. State Department, Washington, DC, January 18, 2013.
Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC, January 17, 2013.
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, NY, January 16, 2013.
55 Plus, Princeton, NJ, January 3, 2013
King’s College, London, UK, December 13, 2012.
Top Level Group, Portcullis House, London, UK December 12, 2012.
Old Guard Club, Princeton NJ, December 7, 2012.
Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 21, 2012.
Old Guard, Friend Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 7, 2012.
European Leadership Network, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 16, 2012.
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Astana, Khazakstan, August 29, 2012.
Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco, CA, June 12, 2012.
Fallsington Friends Meeting, Fallsington, PA, June 6, 2012.
Debate with Chris Ford, Nuclear Abolition Forum, Washington, DC, May 9, 2012.
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, CA, April 12, 2012.
“Pragmatic Doubts About Nuclear Weapons,” The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, April 4, 2012.
“The Cost of Nuclear Weapons,” Lower But Coalition for Peace Action, Levittown, PA, March 25, 2012.
George Washington University, Washington, DC, February 17, 2012.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 8, 2011.
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, November 29, 2011.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), November 25, 2011.
IPPNW, Stockholm, Sweden, November 25, 2011.
Policy Planning Seminar, World Council of Churches, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 18, 2011.
International Law Policy Institute, Oslo, Norway, November 17, 2011.
“Nuclear Weapons and Our Globalizing Century,” CCCU webinar, Trenton, NJ, October 20, 2011.
Pugwash, London, UK, September 29, 2011.
Humanitarian Impact meeting, Amersham, United Kingdom, September 28, 2011.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, September 18, 2011.
Center for Security and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, May 17, 2011.
Lower Bucks Coalition for Peace Action, Pennswood, PA, May 1, 2011.
East/West Institute, New York, April 29, 2011.
Evergreen Forum, Princeton, NJ, April 25, 2011.
Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany, April 18, 2011.
Oslo University, Oslo, Norway, April 14, 2011.
Christian Michelsen's Institute on International Development and Policy, Bergen, Norway, April 13, 2011.
University of Massachusettes/Amherst, Amherst, Massachusettes, April 5, 2011.
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusettes, April 4, 2011.
The International Network of Emerging Nuclear Specialists (INENS), Washington, DC, March 27, 2011.
Southeast Asia Workshop, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 17, 2011.
Guest Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 16, 2010.
International Law Policy Institute, Oslo, Norway, December 9, 2010.
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, December 9, 2010.
Institute for Defense Studies, Oslo Norway, December 9, 2010.
Nuclear Weapons Study Group, Oslo, Norway, December 8, 2010.
UN NGO Association, United Nations, New York, NY, December 6, 2010.
“Stable at Zero,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, CA, November 30, 2010.
Monroe Chapter, Coalition for Peace Action, Monroe, NJ, November 17, 2010.
Pugwash, London, United Kingdom, November 4, 2010.
Council on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament, London, UK, November 4, 2010.
United Nations Association, London, United Kingdom, November 3, 2010.
House of Commons, London, United Kingdom, November 2, 2010.
Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, November 1, 2010.
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, October 28, 2010.
Monash University, Roodepoort, South Africa, October 14, 2010.
Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS), Pretoria, South Africa, October 13, 2010.
BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, Newtown, PA, August 6, 2010.
Coalition for Peace Action, Princeton, NJ, August 5, 2010.
Rotary Club, Etowah, TN, July 29, 2010.
Rotary Club, Chattanooga, TN, July 28, 2010.
Rotary Club, Nashville, TN, July 27, 2010.
Editorial Board of the Nashville Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, July 15, 2010.
“Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons,” NPR RevCon side event, United Nations, New York, May 10, 2010.
“Rethinking Nuclear Weapons,” Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC, May 7, 2010.
Georgetown University Lecture Fund, Washington, DC, April 14, 2010.
BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, Newtown, PA, April 11, 2010.
Day-long seminar on “Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons” with members of the Swiss Foreign Ministry and other invited guests. Nyon, Switzerland, March 8, 2010.
Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 17, 2010.
St. Andrews Church, Yardley, PA, January 24, 2010.
Presentation as part of the press conference announcing Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty. Washington, DC, January 21, 2010.
UN Fellows Program, United Nations, New York, October 22, 2009.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 9, 2009.
Philadelphia Coalition for Peace Action, Philadelphia, PA September 9, 2009.
Monroe Twp. Coalition for Peace Action, Jamesburg, NJ, June 17, 2009.
BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, Newtown, PA, June 14, 2009.
Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 24, 2009.
Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 14, 2009
Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, March 16, 2009
Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 11, 2009
Naval War College, Newport, RI, December 1, 2008
Nonproliferation Review, “NPR Luncheon Briefing: Winners of the 2008 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest," Washington, DC, November 12, 2008
Monterey Institute, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, November 7, 2008
Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Palo Alto, CA, November 6, 2008
The New School, New York, NY, October 17, 2008
The New America Foundation, Washington, DC, July 27, 2008
Los Alamos Committee on Arms Control and International Security, Los Alamos, NM, April 24, 2008.
George School, Newtown, PA, April 2, 2008
Institute for Advanced Study, Seminar, Princeton, NJ, December 9, 2007
Naval War College, Newport, RI, December 4, 2007
Office of Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY, August 17, 2007
Project for Nuclear Awareness, Philadelphia, PA. August 10, 2007. August 12, 2007
The Stimson Center, Washington, DC. April 24, 2007
Coalition for Peace Action - Monroe chapter, Monroe, NJ, March 28, 2007
St. Andrews Church, Yardley, PA, February 18, 2007
Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, PA, January 30, 2007
Tzedek v' Shalom, Newtown, PA, January 6, 2007
Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ, July 12, 2006
Home of Kevin Ellis, Marlton, VT, June 6, 2006
Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Jan 10, 2006.
EMPLOYMENT
Executive Director, Realist Revolt, Glenview, IL, 2019-present. Founder of grassroots organization to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Senior Fellow, BASIC, London 2012 - 2019. Recipient of a second three year grant from the Foreign Ministry of Norway, the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons Project seeks to pose challenges to fundamental ideas about nuclear weapons.
Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, CA 2010 - 2012. Recipient of a $390,000 grant from the Foreign Ministry of Norway to work on arguments for eliminating nuclear weapons. Rethinking Nuclear Weapons is a project of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute.
Associate Director, Coalition for Peace Action - Princeton, NJ 2008 - 2009. Redesigned Coalition website and upgraded computer systems. Managed events and coordinated volunteers. Ran the Coalition during Director’s sabbatical.
Other Three years as the owner of a jazz record auction; seven years as a legal secretary; ten years as principal of a computer consultancy with clients in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California (including work internationally); and two years doing computer support for Opinion Research Corporation.