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Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

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Henry Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policy-makers, scholars and the media. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and as a member of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.

Sokolski previously served as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Department of Defense, for which he received a medal for outstanding public service from Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Office of Net Assessment, as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, and as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency's Senior Advisory Group. In the U.S. Senate, Sokolski served as a special assistant on nuclear energy matters to Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-NH), and as a legislative military aide to Dan Qualye (R-IN).

Sokolski has authored and edited a number of works on proliferation, including Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001); Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009); Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom (Strategic Studies Institute, 2008); Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War (Strategic Studies Institute, 2008); Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation (Strategic Studies Institute, 2007); Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran (Strategic Studies Institute, 2005); and Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice (Strategic Studies Institute, 2004).

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September 25, 2009 01:14 PM

RE: Obama's Missile Defense Plan: Smart Or Surrender?

We are told that the Obama's missile defense system can be installed cheaper, sooner, and will be just as effective as the Bush system. In fact, we really don't know this for several reasons. First, we are comparing two systems that were never intended to work independently of one another. The Bush system of 10 interceptors was always intended to be supplemented with shorter range missile defenses like the Standard Missile - 3 (SM-3) block I and II systems that Obama is now spotlighting as his "alternative". The SM-3 block I is a known quantity but was never designed to hit…  Read more
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