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Director Series

The Near Term Future of US Nuclear Policy

RSVP Required Open to the Public

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors? Lunch with Ambassador Linton Brooks, former Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday, May 23rd in the Belfer Center Library (L369).

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

About

Ambassador Brooks served from July 2002 to January 2007 as Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  The NNSA carries out the national security responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Energy, including designing, producing, and maintaining nuclear weapons, providing naval nuclear propulsion plants, and promotion of international nuclear nonproliferation.

Ambassador Brooks has over four decades of experience in national security, much of it associated with nuclear weapons.  His extensive government experience includes service as the Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Chief U.S. Negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Director of Arms Control for the National Security Council and a number of Navy and Defense Department assignments as a 30 year career naval officer. 

Ambassador Brooks has degrees from Duke University, University of Maryland and the U.S. Naval War College.  He has published a number of prize-winning articles on naval and nuclear strategy.