CNS Staff: Dr. William C. Potter
 Email: wpotter[at]miis.edu
Dr. William Potter is Institute Professor and Director of the
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International
Studies (MIIS). He also directs the MIIS Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies. He is the author of Nuclear Profiles of the Soviet Successor
States (1993), Soviet Decisionmaking for Chernobyl: An Analysis of System
Performance and Policy Change (1990), and Nuclear Power and
Nonproliferation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1982), co-author of
The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2005), and Tactical Nuclear
Weapons: Options for Control (2000), the editor of Verification and SALT:
The Challenge of Strategic Deception (1980), Verification and Arms
Control (1985), and International Nuclear Trade and
Nonproliferation (1990), and the co-editor of Dangerous Weapons,
Desperate States (1999), Dismantling the Cold War: U.S. and NIS
Perspectives on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (1997),
Soviet Decisionmaking for National Security (1984), The Nuclear
Suppliers and Nonproliferation (1985), Continuity and Change in
Soviet-East European Relations (1989), and International Missile Bazaar:
The New Suppliers' Network (1994). 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, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, the RAND Corporation, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He has been a member of numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences
and currently serves on the Nonproliferation Panel of the Academy's
Committee on International Security and Arms Control. His present research
focuses on nuclear terrorism and on proliferation issues involving the
post-Soviet states. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Pacific Council on International Policy, and the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, 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 to the 1995 NPT Review and Extension
Conference and to the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004 sessions of the NPT
Preparatory Committee, as well as to the 2000 and 2005 NPT Review
Conferences.
Areas of Expertise:
Nuclear:
"Brain Drain" of Scientists from NIS
Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone
Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (C3I)
Export Controls
Fissile Materials Storage & Disposition
"Loose Nukes" in Russia and the Newly Independent States
Material, Protection, Control, &Accounting (MPC&A)
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Nuclear Safety
Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism
Smuggling
Strategic Arms Control
Technical Questions
Regional Expertise:
Newly Independent States
UNSCOM/Iraq:
General
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