Intellect

Joseph F. Pilat is a Senior Advisor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he co-directs the Nonproliferation Forum. He served as representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Fourth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT), and as an adviser to the US Delegation at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. Dr. Pilat also served as representative of the Secretary of Defense to
the Open Skies negotiations. He has been Special Assistant and Assistant for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy, a Senior Research Associate in the Congressional Research Service and a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has written numerous articles and opinion pieces for US and European scholarly journals and newspapers, and is the author or editor of many books, including Ecological Politics: The Rise of the Green Movement (1980), The Nonproliferation Predicament (1985), Atoms for Peace: An Analysis after Thirty Years (1985), The Nuclear Suppliers and Nonproliferation:
International Policy Choices (1985), Beyond 1995: The Future of the NPT Regime (1990), 1995: A New Beginning for the NPT? (1995) and Atoms for Peace: A Future after Fifty Years? (2007).