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
- US-Russian Dialogue on Strategic Stability Held 65 Meters Underground in Moscow Command and Control BunkerParticipants shared the view that normalizing relations was of fundamental importance to the maintenance of strategic stability.
- Disarmament Diplomacy and the Nuclear Ban TreatyHow 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 TimerbaevVIDEO: CNS Director William Potter offers birthday greetings.
- In Remembrance of Ralph RegulaCNS mourns the passing of Ralph Regula, an 18-term congressman from Ohio.
- US-Soviet Cooperation for Nonproliferation: Lessons for TodayVIDEO: Dr. William Potter, Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and CNS Founding Director.
- In Remembrance of Lawrence ScheinmanHe will be greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues in the United States and abroad.
- Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of TlatelolcoCNS Director William Potter traveled to Mexico City to attend events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco.
- President-Elect Trump Calls to “Strengthen and Expand” US Nuclear CapabilityCNS experts available for comment.
- Trump And Nuclear Weapons: Here’s What’s At StakeCNS’s William Potter and Miles Pomper on what to expect from President-Elect Trump’s nuclear policy.
- CTBT 20th Anniversary Events in Vienna“CTBT@20” addressed the future of the treaty and concrete actions to be taken to obtain its long delayed entry-into-force.
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.