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Biographies of
Contributors
HERBERT L. ABRAMS, M.D., is Professor of Radiology at Stanford Uni-
versity School of Medicine and a Member-in-Residence of the Stanford Center
for International Security and Arms Control (Stanford, CA 943051. From
1967 to 1985 he was the Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology at Harvard
Medical School and Chairman of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hos-
pital in Boston. Dr. Abrams was founding Vice-President of International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and has served as National Co-
chairman of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
LYNN ANSPAUGH, Ph.D., is the Division Leader for Environmental Sci-
ences at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA 944501.
Since 1963, he has been with the Biomedical and Environmental Research
Program at LLNL and has performed research in the areas of aeolian resus-
pension of toxic materials, radiation-dose-model development, and risk as-
sessment. Dr. Anspaugh is also Project Leader for LLNL's studies on the
biological and ecological effects of global nuclear war.
WILLIAM R. BEARDSLEE, M.D., is Clinical Director of the Department
of Psychiatry of Children's Hospital Medical Center and Assistant Professor
at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA 021151. He was a member of the
1982 American Psychiatric Association task force on nuclear issues and co-
author of its report Psychosocial Aspects of Nuclear Developments.
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JOHN W. BIRKS, Ph.D., is Professor of Chemistry and Acting Director of
the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University
of Colorado, Boulder (803091. With Paul J. Crutzen, he co-authored the first
paper on nuclear winter, which appeared in 1982 in a special issue of the
Swedish international journal Ambio.
NIKOLAI P. BOCHKOV, M.D., is Director of the Institute of Medical
Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (UL. Solyanka 14,
Moscow 109801, USSR). Academician Bochkov was a member of the steering
committee for the World Health Organization's study of the effects of nuclear
war and co-author of the 1984 WHO report Effects of Nuclear War on Health
and Health Services.
SHLOMO BREZNITZ, Ph.D., is Director of the Jaffe Centre for the Study
of Psychological Stress at Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. He has served as
Provost of Haifa University and as Chairman of its Department of Psychology.
From 1983 to 1985, he was Visiting Scientist at the National Institute of
Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland. He edited the volume The Denial of
Stress.
HAROLD L. BRODE, Ph.D., is Vice-President of Strategic Systems at
Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation (Los Angeles, CA 90025~. He is also
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group for Effects (SAGE) for the Defense
Nuclear Agency and co-founder of R&D Associates.
GEORGE F. CARRIER, Ph.D., is T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Ap-
plied Mathematics at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA 021381. He has
received the Von Karman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
and the Von Karman Prize of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathe-
matics. In 1983-1984, he chaired the National Research Council's Committee
on the Atmospheric Effects of Nuclear Explosions.
HAROLD C. COCHRANE, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics
and Co-Director of the Hazards Assessments Laboratory at Colorado State
University (Fort Collins, CO 805231. He has written on the subjects of the
economics of natural disasters and the economics of weather warnings.
WILLIAM DAUGHERTY earned a B.A. in politics from Princeton Uni-
versity in 1986 and is currently a graduate student in politics at Columbia
University (New York, NY 100271.
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OLE JOHAN FINNOY is a school psychologist in Trondheim, Norway. He
is a research assistant on the project "Children and the Future" at the Uni-
versity of Bergen.
SUSAN T. FISKE, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Social Psychology in
the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (010031.
She is co-author of Social Cognition and was co-editor of the 1983 Journal
of Social Issues entitled "Images of Nuclear War."
JEROME D. FRANK, Ph.D., M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
(Baltimore, MD 212051. He is the author of Sanity and Survival in the Nuclear
Age and numerous publications on intergroup relations and the psychology
of the nuclear arms race.
ALEXANDER L. GEORGE, Ph.D., is the Graham H. Stewart Professor of
International Relations at Stanford University and the Stanford Center for
International Security and Arms Control (Stanford, CA 943051. He is a former
research analyst with the Rand Corporation. Among his publications is Pres-
idential Decisionmaking in Foreign Policy: The Effective Use of information
and Advice.
DAVID S. GREER, M.D., is Dean of Medicine and Professor of Community
Health at Brown University (Providence, RI 029121. He was a member of
the Institute of Medicine committee that produced the 1984 report, Bereave-
ment: Reactions, Consequences, and Care. Dr. Greer has served on the Board
of Directors of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
DAVID A. HAMBURG, M.D., is President of The Carnegie Corporation of
New York. From 1975 to 1980, he was President of the Institute of Medicine.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Inter-
national Security and Arms Control. Dr. Hamburg is a psychiatrist who has
written extensively on aggression, stress, and coping in the context of ethology
and human evolution.
TED F. HARVEY, Ph.D., is currently a member of the Atmospheric and
Geophysical Sciences Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(Livermore, CA 945551. His current technical interests include numerical
modeling of global and local fallout effects.
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CHRISTINE C. HARWELL, J.D., is a consultant and lawyer specializing
in environmental issues. She was technical editor and contributing author to
the SCOPE 28 report, The Environmental Consequences of Nucelar War.
Volume lI: Ecological and Agricultural Effects.
MARK A. HARWELL, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Ecosystems
Research Center at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 148531. He is senior author
of the recently published SCOPE 28 report, The Environmental Consequences
of Nuclear War. Volume 11: Ecological and Agricultural Effects.
ALEXANDER LEAF, M.D., is Ridley Watts Professor of Preventive Med-
icine at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of Preventive Medicine and
Epidemiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA 021141. He
was a member of the steering committee for the World Health Organization's
study of the effects of nuclear war and co-author of the 1984 WHO report
Elects of Nuclear War on Health and Health Services.
JENNIFER LEANING, M.D., is Chief of Emergency Services for the Har-
vard Community Health Plan (Boston, MA 022151. She is a member of the
Executive Committee and Board of Directors of Physicians for Social Re-
sponsibility and co-chair of the Governor's Advisory Commission on the
Impact of the Nuclear Arms Race on Massachusetts. Dr. Leaning co-edited
The Counterfeit Ark: Crisis Relocation for Nuclear War.
BARBARA G. LEVI, Ph.D., is a member of the research staff at Princeton
University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (Princeton, NJ
08540) and a contributing editor to Physics Today. Before joining the Prince-
ton staff, Dr. Levi taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
ROBERT C. MALONE, Ph.D., pursues an interest in computer modeling
of the earth's atmosphere and climate system at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM 875451. Previously he conducted research on
inertial confinement fusion, magnetic confinement fusion, and high-density
plasma physics, also at Los Alamos.
ROBERT Q. MARSTON, M.D., is President Emeritus of the University of
Florida and Professor of Medicine at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center,
University of Florida (Gainesville 326101. He is a former director of the
National Institutes of Health. He currently serves as Chairman of the Safety
Advisory Committee of the General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation. Dr.
Marston chaired the steering committee for the 1985 Institute of Medicine
Symposium, "Medical Implications of Nuclear War."
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DENNIS MILETI, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the
Hazard Assessments Laboratory at Colorado State University (Fort Collins,
CO 805231. He has published in the fields of human response to warnings
and the organizational response to the threat of disaster.
PER OFTEDAL, Ph.D., holds a chair in General Genetics at the University
of Oslo. He has worked and published extensively in the field of radiation
genetics and contributed background papers on cancer and genetic aspects to
the 1984 World Health Organization report Effects of Nuclear War on Health
and Health Services.
KENDALL R. PETERSON, M.S., is an atmospheric physicist with Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA 945551. His research focuses
on the transport and diffusion of radioactive pollutants over intermediate and
global distances.
THEODORE A. POSTOL, Ph.D., is a physicist who has conducted research
at Argonne National Laboratory, analyzed MX missile issues for the Congres-
sional Office of Technology Assessment, and served in the Office of the Chief
of Naval Operations. He is now at the Center for International Security and
Arms Control at Stanford University (Stanford, CA 943051.
MAGNE RAUNDALEN, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Child
Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he directs the project
"Children and the Future." He is co-editor of War, Violence and Children
in Uganda.
LAWRENCE S. RIFKIN is a medical student in Brown University's Pro-
gram in Medicine (Providence, RI 029121.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Uni-
versity of London. An original signer of the Einstein-Russel Manifesto, Pro-
fessor Rotblat was Secretary General of the Pugwash Conference on Science
and World Affairs from 1957 to 1973. He is Past President of the British
Institute of Radiology and was Editor-in-Chief of Physics in Medicine and
Biology. His address is 8 Asmara Road, London NW2 3ST, England.
CARL SAGAN, Ph.D., is the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and
Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell
University (Ithaca, NY 148531. He is a recent recipient of the Honda Prize
in Ecotechnology, the Annual Award for Public Service of the Federation of
American Scientists, and the Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public
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Interest of the American Physical Society. He was co-editor of The Cold and
the Dark: The World After Nuclear War.
CHARLES S. SHAPIRO, Ph.D., is Professor of Physics at San Francisco
State University (San Francisco, CA 94132~. Formerly, he studied radiation
effects for 10 years at IBM. He currently is a consultant on fallout to the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Professor Shapiro was co-editor
and contributing author to the SCOPE 28 report, Environmental Consequences
of Nuclear War. Volume 1: Physical and Atmospheric Effects.
RICHARD D. SMALL, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at Pacific-Sierra Research
Corporation (Los Angeles, CA 90025), where he is responsible for fire re-
search. Previously he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
FREDRIC SOLOMON, M.D., is Director of the Division of Mental Health
and Behavioral Medicine of the Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC 20418)
where he co-edited the 1984 Institute of Medicine report, Bereavement: Re-
actions, Consequences, and Care. Since 1981, he also has served as staff
officer to advisory committees to the Institute of Medicine's Council and
President on medical consequences of nuclear war; he was Project Director
for the 1985 symposium, "Medical Implications of Nuclear War."
JOHN D. STEINBRUNER, Ph.D., is Director of the Foreign Policy Studies
Program at The Brookings Institution (Washington, DC 20036~. He co-edited
the 1983 Brookings publication Alliance Security: NATO and the No-First-
Use Question and is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Managing Nuclear
Operations.
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SHERRY L. STEPHENS is a graduate student in the Department of Chem-
istry at the University of Colorado, Boulder (80309~.
JAMES THOMPSON, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Uni-
versity College London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society
and author of its official statement Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War.
Dr. Thompson also serves as an adviser to the World Health Organization
on the psychological aspects of nuclear issues and teaches in the psychiatry
department of Middlesex Hospital (London, WIN BAA).
RICHARD P. TURCO, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist and Program Manager
at R&D Associates (Marina del Rey, CA 902951. He was co-editor and
contributing author to the SCOPE 28 report, The Environmental Consequences
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of Nuclear War. Volume l: Physical and Atmospheric Elects. He is the
recipient of the American Geophysical Union Editor's Citation, the H. Julian
Allen Award, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Service
Award, and the Leo Szilard Award.
FRANK VON HIPPEL, Ph.D., is a Professor at Princeton's Woodrow Wil-
son School of Public and International Affairs and a senior research scientist
at the University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (Princeton,
NJ 085401. He earned a D.Phil. in theoretical physics as a Rhodes Scholar
at the University of Oxford. Dr. von Hippel is a Past Chairman of the Fed-
eration of American Scientists (FAS) and is currently on the Board of Directors
of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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