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Non-Proliferation Fellow
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Email: jwolfsthal@csis.org
Working Groups
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Security
Expertise
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- Nuclear and missile proliferation
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- Regional security
Background
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Jon Wolfsthal served in North Korea during the implementation of the 1994 Agreed Framework, including a one-month period as the lead US monitor at the Yongbyon Nuclear Facility. During his five years in various positions at the US department of Energy he worked on security and nuclear issues, including those related to North Korea.
Biography
Jon Wolfsthal is the Nonproliferation Fellow at the International Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is an expert on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, with particular emphasis on nuclear weapons. He has focused on the nuclear cases of North Korea and Iran and on the control of nuclear materials and expertise in the former Soviet Union. He has also done extensive work on U.S. nuclear policy, including nuclear strategy and international nonproliferation policy. Prior to his position at CSIS, he served for six years as the deputy director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and before that worked at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in a variety of positions. He is the co-author of DEADLY ARSENALS:TRACKING NUCLEAR CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS (2002).
During his five years at DOE, in addition to his work in the DPRK, Jon worked to improve security at Russian nuclear facilities, and oversaw several programs to eliminate trade in weapons-usable nuclear materials. He last served as the special assistant to the assistant secretary for nonproliferation and national security. Wolfsthal is the coeditor of Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Materials and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union (Carnegie, 2001). He is a frequently cited expert on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in print, radio, and television media. His articles and op-eds have appeared in many domestic and international publications, including Survival, Current History, Arms Control Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. Wolfsthal is the founder of New Analysts in International Security and was educated at Emory and George Washington Universities.
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