William C. Potter is Sam Nunn

Sam Nunn

Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...

 and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Monterey Institute of International Studies

The Monterey Institute of International Studies is a graduate school of Middlebury College, located in Monterey, California, United States...

 (MIIS). He also directs the MIIS Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Dr. Potter has contributed chapters and articles to over eighty-five scholarly books and journals. He has served as a consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was established as an independent agency of the United States government by the Arms Control and Disarmament Act , September 26, 1961, a bill drafted by presidential adviser John J. McCloy. Its predecessor was the U.S. Disarmament Administration, part...

, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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, the RAND Corporation, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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. He has been a member of several committees of the National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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 and currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Nonproliferation Panel.

His present research focuses on nuclear terrorism

Nuclear terrorism

Nuclear terrorism denotes the use, or threat of the use, of nuclear weapons or radiological weapons in acts of terrorism, includingattacks against facilities where radioactive materials are present...

 and proliferation issues involving the post-Soviet states

Post-Soviet states

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. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

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 and the Pacific Council on International Policy

Pacific Council on International Policy

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, and served for five years on the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and the Board of Trustees of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for Policy Studies in Russia (Moscow). He was an advisor to the delegation of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

 to the 1995 NPT

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to...

Review and Extension Conference and to the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2007 sessions of the NPT Preparatory Committee, as well as to the 2000 and 2005 NPT Review Conferences.

Works

• (ed.) Verification and SALT: The Challenge of Strategic Deception (1980)
• Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1982)
• (co-edited) Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security (1984)
• (ed.) Verification and Arms Control (1985)
• (co-edited) The Nuclear Suppliers and Nonproliferation (1985)
• (co-edited) Continuity and Change in Soviet-East European Relations (1989)
• Soviet Decisionmaking fr Chernobyl: An Analysis of System Performance and Policy Change (1990)
• (ed.) International Nuclear Trade and Nonproliferation (1990)
• Nuclear Profiles of the Soiet Successor States (1993)
• (co-edited) International Missile Bazaar: The New Suppliers' Network (1994)
• (co-edited) Dismantling the Cold War: U.S. and NIS Perspectives on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (1997)
• (co-edited) Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States (1999)
• Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Options for Control (2000)
• (as co-author) The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2005)

External links

• Faculty web page at MIIS