CNS Founding Director
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Monterey, CA
831.647.3511
Activities
- Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor
of Nonproliferation Studies - Founding Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
- Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Areas of Research
- Nuclear terrorism
- Forecasting proliferation developments
- US-Russian relations
- NPT review process
- NAM nuclear politics
Background
Dr. William Potter 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 several committees of the National Academy of Sciences, including its Nonproliferation Panel.
He 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 has participated as a delegate at every NPT Review Conference and Preparatory Committee meeting since 1995.
CNS Work
- The Kim-Trump Summit Is Set. What Can We Expect?
An unprecedented summit requires unparalleled analysis. - CNS Experts Respond to the US Withdrawal from the Iran Deal
An “ill-conceived” decision “of potentially historic proportion.” - In Remembrance of Ambassador Mohamed Shaker
It is with great sadness that we learned that Amb. Shaker passed away at the age of 85. - Celebrating 15 Years of Disarmament and Nonproliferation Education
CNS experts on the need to inform and empower citizens for peace. - US-Russian Dialogue on Strategic Stability Held 65 Meters Underground in Moscow Command and Control Bunker
Participants shared the view that normalizing relations was of fundamental importance to the maintenance of strategic stability. - Disarmament Diplomacy and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
How did the humanitarian impact movement morph into a multilateral treaty to ban the possession of nuclear weapons? - Bill Potter’s Birthday Greetings to Roland Mikhailovich Timerbaev
VIDEO: CNS Director William Potter offers birthday greetings. - In Remembrance of Ralph Regula
CNS mourns the passing of Ralph Regula, an 18-term congressman from Ohio. - US-Soviet Cooperation for Nonproliferation: Lessons for Today
VIDEO: Dr. William Potter, Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and CNS Founding Director. - In Remembrance of Lawrence Scheinman
He will be greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues in the United States and abroad.
Bibliography
Books
- End of an Era: The United States, Russia, and Nuclear Nonproliferation (2021), co-authored with Sarah Bidgood
- Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement (2012)
- The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2005)
- Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Options for Control (2000)
- Nuclear Profiles of the Soviet Successor States (1993)
- Soviet Decisionmaking for Chernobyl: An Analysis of System Performance and Policy Change (1990)
- Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1982)
Editor
- Verification and SALT: The Challenge of Strategic Deception (1980)
- Verification and Arms Control (1985), and International Nuclear Trade and Nonproliferation (1990)
Co-Editor
- Once and Future Partners: The United States, Russia, and Nuclear Non-proliferation (2018)
- Preventing Black-Market Trade in Nuclear Technology (2018)
- Forecasting Nuclear Nonproliferation in the 21st Century (2 volumes, 2010)
- Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament (2009)
- The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism: A Supply Side Approach (2009)
- 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)
- International Missile Bazaar: The New Suppliers’ Network (1994)
Dr. Potter has contributed chapters and articles to over 130 scholarly books and journals.
