Jon Wolfsthal, an expert on nuclear proliferation

Nuclear proliferation

Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the...

, who is currently a special advisor for Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security and Director for Nonproliferation, National Security Council

National Security Council

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 to the office of the Vice President of the United States

Office of the Vice President of the United States

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 at the White House

White House

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, having left the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Center for Strategic and International Studies

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 in March 2009 where he had been a CSIS senior fellow. He was previously the deputy director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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. He also teaches at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

. He served at the U.S. Department of Energy during the 1990s.

• Geographic Expertise:

China, India, Pakistan & Afghanistan, Korean Peninsula, Middle East & Persian Gulf, Iran, Russia & Former Soviet Union, United States

• Principal Areas of Expertise:

Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Terrorism, Proliferation, U.S. Nuclear Policy)

External links

• Official page at Carnegie Endowment