Date and Time
September 30, 2010
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required

Speaker
Siegfried S. Hecker - Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Professor (Research), Department of Management Science and Engineering

About the Speaker: Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, co-director of CISAC, a senior fellow at FSI, and Director Emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He also works closely with the Russian Academy of Sciences and serves as a member of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on International Security and Arms Control Nonproliferation Panel. His research interests include plutonium science, nuclear weapons policy and international security, nuclear security (including nonproliferation and counter terrorism), and cooperative threat reduction. Hecker’s work on North Korea includes a 2008 report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center and two recently published articles, “North Korea’s Choice: Bombs Over Electricity” (The Bridge 40(2), 2010) and “Lessons learned from the North Korean crises” (Daedalus, Winter 2010).