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The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center has distinguished itself with its no-nonsense analyses and strong advocacy for robust nonproliferation policies. The organization's leadership ranks in the top tier of experts that the Committee on Foreign Relations looks to for testimony on difficult issues.
Senator Richard Lugar
Ranking Member
Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
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In a town where institutions tend to stake out predictable and not very original positions, NPEC cannot be easily pigeon-holed.Its honest, hard-hitting analysis has often made administrations of both parties uncomfortable –and that’s probably a good thing.
Robert Einhorn
U.S. Department of State |
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For 15 years, no individual or organization has spent more time studying the risks associated with the spread of civil nuclear power technology and the failure to deal with the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea as Henry Sokolski and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). As the threats of nuclear terrorism and proliferation continue to dominate national security policy debates, both Sokolski and NPEC will continue to provide a vital service to the legislative and executive branches.
Senator Jon Kyl
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NPEC is fearless.It never hesitates to speak out for nuclear nonproliferation as the top national security priority of the United States, regardless of whose feathers get ruffled.Its work is always provocative, informative, and useful to those of us who are deeply interested in these issues. Congratulations!
Congressman Howard Berman
Chairman
House Foreign Affairs Committee |
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NPEC and its guiding light, Henry Sokolski, have for fifteen years performed an invaluable service to our country on the critical threats posed by proliferation. They have provided evidence, analysis and opinion to inform and enhance our policy debates, and in so doing earned the respect of all the participants in that debate, no mean accomplishment in Washington these. Although I wish the world were such that we didn't have to wish Henry and NPEC well for another fifteen years, we do, and we should. Best of luck!
Ambassador John Bolton
AEI, former Under Secretary of State
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Henry Sokolski and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center have been for many years top resources for my work on nonproliferation issues. NPEC’s commitment to reducing the nuclear threat is second to none.
Congressman Ed Markey
Chairman, House Energy and the Environment Subcommittee |
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The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center headed by Henry Sokolski has repeatedly proven to be an indispensable source of expertise for the Congress in its work on nuclear issues. Through testimony to the Foreign Affairs Committee, the many papers produced by NPEC, and his analysis of complex issues, he has contributed significantly to the Committee’s many accomplishments in this area. I look forward to continuing to working closely with NPEC for many years to come.
Ilena Ros-Lehtinen
Ranking Member
House Foreign Affairs Committee |
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NPEC stands out among the many groups that provide analysis and information about nuclear nonproliferation because it focuses on something that receives less attention than it should – namely, the proliferation impacts of civilian nuclear cooperation. You can count on NPEC to provide incisive analysis of nuclear nonproliferation issues from diverse points of view.
Congressman Brad Sherman
Chairman
House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade |
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Nuclear proliferation is a vexing policy challenge. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center is an invaluable resource for Members of Congress and their staff as we grapple with these critical issues. Its Expertise is needed now more than ever.
Congressman Ed Royce
Ranking Member
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade |
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NPEC and Henry Sokolski are a steady source of penetrating analysis and innovative policy recommendations. They are an exceptionally creative players in the nonproliferation field.
George Perkovich
VP for Studies and Nonproliferation Program
Director, The Carnegie Endowment |
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I am deeply impressed with NPEC’s mastery of a broad range of nonproliferation topics and the depth of analysis reflected in its profusion of publications. NPEC is widely respected for distilling complex nuclear threat issues down to their essence and providing timely, actionable, and eminently sensible policy recommendations.
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry
Co-chairman
House Nuclear Security Caucus
House Foreign Affairs Committee |
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Few nonproliferation policy shops, including the big ones, have accomplished as much as NPEC.
Victor Gilinsky
Former NRC Commissioner |
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Anyone with a serious interest in nuclear proliferation needs to track NPEC's reports. NPEC provides not only up-to-date information, it exposes the considerable array of follies and contradictions in our policies. It is a one- stop shop for sanity on technology, economics, politics and bureaucratic behavior.
Henry Rowen
Hoover Institution
Former RAND President
Chairman, the National Intelligence Council, and Assistant Secretary of Defense |
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NPEC is a vital and effective world leader in the deadly serious business of stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. If we don't want to lose a city, or worse, we should support NPEC's work now.
Amory Lovins
Rocky Mountain Institute |
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Nuclear proliferation is a complicated intellectual field and a difficult practical challenge. If we succeed in coming to grips with the challenges we face, it will be in large part because of the fearless and first-rate work of NPEC.
William Kristol
Editor
The Weekly Standard |
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Thanks to the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center no one dealing with nuclear non-proliferation policies and issues will ever be able to say "I didn't know", "I didn't realize" or "what else could have been done?" This, by itself, is a major accomplishment.
Pierre Goldschmidt
Former Head of the IAEA
Department of Safeguards |
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There are many think tanks in Washington. Very few of them can be described as invaluable. NPEC is one of those few. In an era where no issue matters more -- or is thought about less -- than nuclear proliferation, NPEC has consistently provided the most comprehensive and intelligent analysis available.
Bret Stephens
The Wall Street Journal |
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NPEC has commissioned landmark research reports on nuclear-proliferation-related issues and plays an important role in Washington's nuclear-policy debates as an expert and effective nuclear iconoclast.
Frank Von Hippel
Princeton University
Co-chair International Panel on Fissile Materials |
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No organization speaks as forcefully and cogently on the range of topics influencing our thinking about nuclear power and proliferation as does NPEC.
Jeff Kueter
President
The George Marshall Institute |
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The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) has made major contribution for U.S. policies to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and educated indeed. Congressional Commission on the U.S. Strategic Posture upon which I served certainly benefited from NPEC’s studies; in particular its analysis regarding fissile material controls.
Fred Ikle
CSIS
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Arms Control |
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NPEC has consistently been way ahead of the curve. Not only does NPEC identify problems long before they hit the front pages, it has an excellent record at bringing together regional experts with strategic thinkers. It also thinks seriously about how the other side will try to counter whatever approach the United States adopts and realizes that foreign policy problems usually require an ongoing campaign, not just immediate policy steps.
Patrick Clawson
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
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“Henry Sokolski's work earns wide regard because it is both informed and trenchant. His analysis offers valuable insights and presents important challenges—not only to those who have advocated prior non-proliferation initiatives but to those who contend that there are better options.
Alton Frye
Vice President
The Council on Foreign Relations |
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NPEC in the Media
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Jan 25, 2012:
The Wall Street Journal quotes NPEC executive director in, "U.S. Shifts Policy on Nuclear Pacts," by Jay Solomon.
Jan 13, 2012:
The Washington Post quotes NPEC executive director in, "‘Crunch time’ at troubled nuclear fuel plant," by Steven Mufson.
Jan 11, 2012:
Global Security Newswire cites Henry Sokolski in, "Obama Team Reveals Nuclear Trade, Nonproliferation Decision on Capitol Hill," by Elaine Grossman.
Jan 06, 2012:
The National Post cites NPEC study in, "A secret nuclear test could be Iran’s trump card in Strait of Hormuz showdown: Goodspeed analysis," by Peter Goodspeed.
Jan 02, 2012:
Meridiani Relazioni Internazionali cites Henry Sokolski in, "The poker hand of Obama with Israel," by Nicholas De Scalzi.
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Visit AlbertWohlstetter.com to browse the previously private papers of our country's leading nuclear strategist and nonproliferation policy analyst.
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NPEC's Latest
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| NPEC Announces John Lauder, Former CIA Nonproliferation Center Director, Joins Advisory Board. For Mr. Lauder's Biography, Click Here |
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| NPEC Articles & Studies |
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NPEC Books
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Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks
Dec 2010
Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Jan 2010
Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk
Apr 2010
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter
Jan 2009
Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom
Mar 2008
Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War
Jan 2008
Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation
Mar 2007
Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats
May 2006
Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran
Jan 2005
Getting Mad: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice
Nov 2004
Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Jan 2004
Beyond Nunn Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia
Apr 2002
Planning for a Peaceful Korea
Feb 2001
Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation
Jan 2001
Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation
Jan 2001
Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation
Mar 2000
Fighting Proliferation: New Concerns for the Nineties
Jan 1996
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Daily Briefs of Import Outside of NPEC
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CEZ,eager to keep its current credit rating, now in search of outside investor for its $10 b reactor project
Jan 26, 2012
Ladka Bauerova, "CEZ May Seek Partner for $10 Billion Temelin Reactor Project," Bloomberg Businessweek, 26 January 2011.
Even without blockading Hormuz, Iran has many options to upset oil markets and Gulf security
Jan 25, 2012
Peter Apps, "Even without Hormuz blockade, Iran has options," Reuters, 25 January 2012.
BBC details Fair Energy legal EU complaint on member states' illicit nuclear subsidies
Jan 23, 2012
Richard Black, "UK 'subsidising nuclear power unlawfully'," BBC, 20 January 2011.
Power politics: Are Japanese officials exaggerating likely 2012 summer electricity shortages to push nuke restarts?
Jan 23, 2012
Hisashi Kajiyama, "Gov't withheld estimates showing electricity surplus to boost nuclear power: critics," The Mainichi Daily News, 23 January 2012.
State and Energy letter to Hill says Obama to drop efforts to push nonpro conditions in UAE-US deal for future 123s
Jan 23, 2012
"State-Energy Letter Tells Hill Obama will Abandon Tight Nuclear Nonproliferation Rules," NPEC, 10 January 2012.
Check out NPEC's latest: Weekly Standard on why 'peaceful' reactors in Iran, N. Korea, and beyond are nuke weapons worry
Jan 21, 2012
Henry Sokolski, "Reactors and Bombs: How North Korea and Iran can militarize ‘civilian’ nuclear plants." The Weekly Standard, 30 January 2012.
Oil Price details why PRC-Saudi oil-nuke agreement is a big and possibly worrisome deal
Jan 21, 2012
John C.K. Daly, "China to Aid Saudi Arabia in 'Peaceful' Nuclear Power Development," Oil Price, 19 January 2012.
NPEC enthusiastically welcomes John Lauder, former CIA Nonproliferation Center Director, to advisory board
Jan 20, 2012
"John Lauder Joins NPEC Board of Advisors," NPEC, 19 January 2012.
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