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The Future of US Nuclear Weapons Policy
Speaker: Dr. Charles Ferguson
Presented by the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies—Ridgway Speaker Series This presentation is free for all students, faculty, and interested community members. GSPIA’s Ridgway Speaker Series will host a presentation by Dr. Charles Ferguson who is the Philip D. Reed senior fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an adjunct professor in the security studies program at Georgetown University, where he teaches a graduate-level course titled “Nuclear Technologies and Security,” and an adjunct lecturer in the national security studies program at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches a graduate-level course titled “Weapons of Mass Destruction Technologies.” At CFR, he specializes in analyzing nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation, and the prevention of nuclear terrorism. He is the project director of CFR’s Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy. The Task Force is chaired by former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. He has worked as the scientist-in-residence at the Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). At CNS, he co-wrote (with William Potter) the book The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (Routledge, 2005). He has also served as a physical scientist in the Office of the Senior Coordinator for Nuclear Safety at the U.S. Department of State, where he helped develop U.S. government policies on nuclear safety and security issues. After graduating with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy, he was trained as a nuclear engineering officer on a ballistic missile submarine. He holds a PhD in physics from Boston University. Date: 1/22/2009 Location: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium 125 FFA Time: 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. For more information call 412-624-7884 or email brizzi@gspia.pitt.edu Published Date: 12/08/08 Category: GSPIA Students, GSPIA Faculty, and interested community members |
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