Jonathan B. Tucker (1954–2011)
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Sobre El Autor
Jonathan B. Tucker is an expert on biological and chemical weapons in the Washington, D.C., office of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He studied biology at Yale University, received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT, and served in the State Department, the congressional mostrar más Office of Technology Assessment, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is the editor of Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons. mostrar menos
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- Nombre canónico
- Tucker, Jonathan B.
- Nombre legal
- Tucker, Jonathan Brin
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-08-02
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2011-07-31
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Educación
- Yale University (BS | Biology | 1975)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD | Political Science) - Biografía breve
- Tucker earned a B.S. in biology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science (focusing on defense and arms control study) from MIT
After finishing his studies Tucker worked as an arms control specialist for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, and the U.S. State Department. He was an editor at High Technology and Scientific American magazines and wrote about military technologies, biotechnology, and biomedical research. Tucker was a UN weapons biological inspector in Iraq in February 1995.
From 1996, he served as founding director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and then served as a senior fellow in its Washington Office. He was a professional staff member for the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of WMD proliferation and terrorism, which published World at Risk, a volume critical of US prevention strategies for post-9/11 terrorism. In 2010, Tucker spent a semester teaching and researching at the TU Darmstadt in Germany as an endowed professor of peace and security studies, and most recently was a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC.
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