NCI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Policy Analyst
- Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Senior Policy Analyst for the Institute
Alan Kuperman is a senior policy analyst for the Institute, where his work focuses on the U.S. program to phase out global commerce in bomb-grade, highly enriched uranium. He previously served as the Institute's issues director, and, in 1987, co-authored an NCI report that disclosed plans to proceed with air shipments of plutonium to Japan in the absence of a crashproof shipment cask, leading to cancellation of those plans.
Kuperman is also an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He is author of one book, The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001), as well as chapters in several other books, including American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (Longman, 2005), Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American Foreign Policy (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005), American Foreign Policy: Cases and Choices (Foreign Affairs Books, 2003), and Nuclear Power & the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Brassey's, 2002). His articles have appeared in journals and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an A.B. from Harvard University. He has received fellowships from Harvard University, MIT, the University of Southern California, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics.
Previously, he was chief of staff to Rep. James Scheuer, legislative assistant to Speaker of the House Tom Foley, and legislative director for Rep. Charles Schumer when the congressman authored a U.S. law restricting exports of bomb-grade uranium.
Job Titles:
- President, Federation of American Scientists, Testimony
Job Titles:
- Deceased Director
- Member of the NCI Board of Directors
Eldon V.C. Greenberg advises the Institute on legal matters relating to U.S. nuclear non-proliferation law. He is a partner in the law firm of Garvey Schubert & Barer. He has served as general counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, deputy general counsel for the Agency for International Development, and staff attorney for the Center for Law and Social Policy.
Mr. Greenberg's legal analysis of the U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement with Japan provided the basis for challenges of the agreement by both foreign affairs committees in Congress and by the Institute and resulted in "clarifications" of the agreement by the Administration with respect to U.S. rights and obligations under the Treaty. Mr. Greenberg also advises the Institute on nuclear export law and regulations. He has intervened successfully on behalf of the Institute in a number of proceedings before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The analyses by Mr. Greenberg of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the U.S.-EURATOM agreement have laid the groundwork for the Institute's initiatives on these matters. He will continue to play a key role in these and other legal aspects of the Institute's program.
Job Titles:
- America 's Terrorist Nuclear Threat to Itself
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the NCI Board of Directors
- President
- President Emeritus
Leventhal's bio follows, as well as a summary of the initiatives he led at the Institute over 25 years.
Paul Leventhal, founder of the Nuclear Control Institute, died today at age 69. He lost his last tough fight, to metastatic melanoma.
Mr. Leventhal was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program for Science and International Affairs and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, 1976-1977, concentrating on nuclear weapons proliferation under a grant from the Ford Foundation.
Paul Leventhal founded the Nuclear Control Institute in 1981 and served as its President for 22 years prior to becoming Founding President in June 2002. Before establishing NCI, Mr. Leventhal held senior staff positions in the United States Senate on nuclear power and proliferation issues. He now runs NCI as a Web-based program and maintains a word-searchable electronic archive at www.nci.org and a collection of NCI and Senate papers spanning more than 30 years at the National Security Archive.
He has prepared five books for the Institute---Nuclear Terrorism: Defining the Threat (Pergamon-Brassey's, 1986), Preventing Nuclear Terrorism (Lexington, 1987), The Tritium Factor (with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989) Averting a Latin American Nuclear Arms Race (Macmillan, 1992), and Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Brassey's, 2002). He has lectured in a number of countries on nuclear issues, including as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University's Global Security Programme, 1991.
Job Titles:
- Member of the NCI Board of Directors
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- NRC Chairman Richard Meserve ( September 14, 2001 )
Job Titles:
- Member of the NCI Board of Directors
- President, Continental Arbitage Corporation Former International Atomic Energy Agency Inspector
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the NCI Board of Directors
- Vice - President
Sharon Tanzer is the Institute's vice president and a member of the Board of Directors. She was co-editor of Averting a Nuclear Arms Race in Latin America (Macmillan, 1991), the proceedings of the Institute's 1989 Montevideo conference. She was rapporteur and editor of the Tritium Factor, (Nuclear Control Institute/American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989), the proceedings of a 1988 nuclear arms control workshop co-sponsored by NCI and the Academy. She was also project coordinator for the Institute's International Task Force on Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism. She has organized and participated in the Institute's meetings and briefings on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism issues in Europe, India, Japan, and Latin America.
Ms. Tanzer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history, cum laude, from Barnard College in 1962. She spent the following year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Bordeaux, France, and then earned a master's degree in European history from Stanford University in 1964.
Her responsibilities include the Institute's initiatives in Germany and on EURATOM and matters relating to the transport of nuclear materials and nuclear waste.
Job Titles:
- Deceased Director
- Nuclear