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John P. Holdren

John P. Holdren

Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 

 

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November 1997

Chairs, Members, PCAST Panel on Energy R&D, and Staff

Book Chapter

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

 

 

November 1997

Federal Energy Research and Development for the Challenges of the 21st Century

Report

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

 

 

November 1997

"Managing Military Uranium and Plutonium in the United States and the Former Soviet Union"

Journal Article, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, volume 22

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom

Effective approaches to the management of plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU)--the essential ingredients of nuclear weapons— are fundamental to controlling nuclear proliferation and providing the basis for deep, transparent, and irreversible reductions in nuclear weapons stockpiles.

 

 

June 1, 1997

Letter to Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton

Letter

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Evgeny Velikhov

We respectfully submit the Final Report of the U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium. We strongly urge that the U.S. and Russian governments, with support and cooperation from the international community, take additional steps - beyond those already underway - to more rapidly reduce the security risks posed by excess weapons plutonium, ensuring that this material will never again be returned to nuclear weapons. Our report recommends specific steps to meet this objective, including the technologies that can be used, a step-by-step plan of action for bringing these technologies into operation as rapidly as practicable, an international cooperative approach to financing the program, and establishment of an international entity to coordinate the necessary financing and implement the effort.

 

 

June 1, 1997

US-Russia Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: Final Report

Report

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Evgeny Velikhov

 

 

June, 1997

The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

Book

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

 

 

March / April 1997

The Plutonium Disposal Decision: Work with Russia

Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, issue 2, volume 53

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

 

 

July 11, 1995

The U.S. Program of Fusion Energy Research and Development

Report

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

 

 

1995

"The Meaning of Sustainability: Biogeophysical Aspects"

Book Chapter

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Paul R. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily

Chapter presents analytical framework for the book, which examinesapproaches to more precisely characterizing "sustainability."

 

 

November 1992

Radioactive Waste Management in the United States: Evolving Policy Prospects and Dilemmas

Journal Article, Annual Review of Energy and Environment, volume 17

By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

 

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