Re: Study: High-density storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Feb. 15



	Frank von Hippel was introduced into this thread (by me).  Here is a

little more about him.



	According to an article by one of its reporters in the Feb. 15 Albuquerque

Journal, Congress recently released a report suggesting new uses or

applications for the U. S. nuclear arsenal, including weapons able to

strike deep under ground bunkers.  The report was promptly attacked by arms

control advocates, one of them being Frank von Hippel.



	According to the article, he said, "This is very much Cold War rhetoric."

Von Hippel is an "arms control scientist" and former White House adviser on

nuclear weapons issues during the Clinton administration.  He seems to have

a rather broad-ringing anti-nuke bias.



	This biography of von Hippel is from the Princeton website.



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A former assistant director for national security in the White House Office

of Science and Technology, von Hippel’s areas of policy research include

nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, energy, and checks and balances

in policymaking for technology. Prior to coming to Princeton, he worked for

ten years in the field of elementary-particle theoretical physics. He has

written extensively on the technical basis for nuclear nonproliferation and

disarmament initiatives, the future of nuclear energy, and improved

automobile fuel economy. He won a 1993 MacArthur fellowship in recognition

of his outstanding contributions to his fields of research. Ph.D. Oxford

University.



Frank von Hippel is co-director of the Program on Science and Global

Security. 

>>>



	He also wrote a "Public Interest Report" for the Federation of American

Scientists about his White House years, and co-authored an article "U.S.

Tritium Production Plan Lacks Strategic Rationale" with Charles Ferguson in

Defense News, December 7–13, 1998, p. 29. 



	Here is a link to a list of his publications and organizational

affiliations <http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/people/fvhippel.html>.



	More about him here

<http://www.ransac.org/new-web-site/about/members/hippel.html>.



	If you do a Googol search you can find a whole pile of stuff about him in

the anti-nuclear field; mostly related to disarmament.



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com













 



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