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US Nuclear Weapons Strategy and Nuclear Security Summit
The United States is swearing off the development of new generations of nuclear weapons and will reduce its reliance on them in a sweeping overhaul of its nuclear strategy. President Obama announced the sweeping changes to US Nuclear Policy Tuesday, April 6 - just two days before signing a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia. President Obama is hosting dozens of world leaders in a nuclear security summit in Washington next week.
The University of Maryland has a number of faculty experts who can put US nuclear strategy - and its impact - into perspective. Feel free to contact any of our experts directly. Experts are listed alphabetically.
Number of experts found: 8
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Gar Alperovitz
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Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
History/future of nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament strategies; political-economic issues including state/local responses to globalization, national fiscal crisis, wealth inequality, innovative responses to job outsourcing, social security reform, progressive trade policy
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443-801-8706
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press@democracycollaborative.org
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Nancy W. Gallagher
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Research Director and Senior Research Scholar
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Center for International Security Studies at Maryland
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Expertise Key Words:
Nuclear policy, space security, arms control, verification, global security
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301 405 7610
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ngallag@umd.edu
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Jacques S. Gansler
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Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise
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Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise
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Expertise Key Words:
Advanced homeland security and defense technology; defense supply-chain; defense industries; government acquisition; cyber-security; intelligence.
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301 405 4794
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jgansler@umd.edu
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Nathan E. Hultman
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Director, Environmental Policy Program, School of Public Policy
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Climate change, carbon markets, international climate policy, energy policy, low-carbon energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, climate risk, energy technology innovation, risk & decisionmaking under scientific uncertainty, science and society.
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301 405 3429
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hultman@umd.edu
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Milton Leitenberg
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Senior Research Scholar
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Center for International Security Studies at Maryland
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Expertise Key Words:
Biological and chemical weapons; arms control
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301-405-7605
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301-340-3049
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mleitenb@umd.edu
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Thomas C. Schelling
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Dist Univ Prof
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School of Public Policy
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Schelling won 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in game theory. He has published highly influential works in a many areas including nuclear proliferation & arms control, terrorism, organized crime, energy & environmental policy, climate change, and racial segregation.
CONTACT:301-405-4621
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Expertise Credentials:
Thomas Schelling, emeritus distinguished university professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in game theory. Schelling has published highly influential works in a number of areas including climate change, energy and environmental policy, nuclear proliferation and arms control, terrorism, organized crime, and racial segregation.
Schelling is best known for his books The Strategy of Conflict and Micromotives and Macrobehavior. Most recently, he contributed the first chapter (Climate Change: A Bundle of Uncertainties) to the multi-author work "Changing Climate, Changing Economy" (2009). In this work, he says that the economic impact of climate change will fall disproportionately on developing nations and that industrialized countries will need to bear much of the cost.
His renowned work in the 1960s on nuclear deterrence helped shape Cold War strategies. In 1993, the National Academies honored him "for his pioneering work in the logic of military strategy, nuclear war, and arms races which has profoundly influenced our understanding of this crucial subject."
Schelling began his career in 1945, working for the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. He later served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe and as an adviser in the Truman administration. He taught for many years at Yale and Harvard, and has been honored with membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1990.
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Web Site(s):
 Schelling's UM Economics Dept. page
C.V.
2005 UM Release on Nobel Prize Award
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301 405 3494
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tschelli@umd.edu
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Address:
4109 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
A.B., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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John D. Steinbruner
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Director, Center for International Security Studies at Maryland
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School of Public Policy
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Iraq violence:International security, arms control, nuclear weapons proliferation, managing bioterror risk, Russia, Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin.
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301-405-4578
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202-244-9142
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jsteinbr@umd.edu
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Charles L. Thornton
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Research Fellow
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Ctr for Intl Security Studies at Maryland
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Expertise Key Words:
nuclear proliferation; russia; arms control
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301 332 7869
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clt@umd.edu
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