Henry D. Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center is a not-for-profit organization that is based in Washington, D.C., and was founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policymakers, scholars and the media.Henry D. Sokolski is the executive...

, a Washington

Washington, D.C.

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-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 2008.

Sokolski served from 1989 to 1993 as the Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Office of the Secretary of Defense

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, 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

Office of Net Assessment

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 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

Dan Quayle

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....

, and as Special Assistant on Nuclear Energy Matters to Senator Gordon J. Humphrey

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 from 1982 through 1983.

Sokolski also served as a consultant on proliferation issues to the intelligence community's National Intelligence Council

National Intelligence Council

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. After his work in the Pentagon

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, he received a Congressional appointment to the Deutch Proliferation Commission, which completed its report in July 1999. He also served as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

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's Senior Advisory Panel from 1995 to 1996.

Sokolski has authored and edited a number of works on proliferation related issues including, Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation http://www.npec-web.org/Frameset.asp?PageType=Books&BookID=-1946365429 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001),"Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom"(Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2008); Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats http://www.npec-web.org/Frameset.asp?PageType=Books&BookID=190437399 (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2006), Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran http://www.npec-web.org/Frameset.asp?PageType=Books&BookID=1757658041 (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2005), and Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction Its Origins and Practice http://www.npec-web.org/Frameset.asp?PageType=Books&BookID=2116845428 (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2004).

Sokolski has been a resident fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy, the Heritage Foundation

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 and the Hoover Institution

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. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at The Institute of World Politics

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 in Washington, D.C., and has taught courses at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, Rosary College, and Loyola University

Loyola University Chicago

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.

Sokolski attended the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 and Pomona College

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, and received his graduate education at the University of Chicago.

External links

• Nonproliferation Policy Education Center staff bio
• Nonproliferation Policy Education Center – Organization website
• "News Analysis: Iran Defies U.N. Deadline on Uranium Enrichment", NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, February 22, 2007
• NPEC Print and Media Citations