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Jim Walsh

Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom

Contact:
Telephone: 617-324-3712
Fax: 617-258-7858
Email: j_walsh@mit.edu
Website: http://web.mit.edu/SSP/people/walsh/faculty_walsh.html

Experience

Dr. Jim Walsh is a Research Associate at MIT’s Security Studies Program. Previously, he was a Research Associate of Harvard University's Managing the Atom Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Middle East.  Dr. Walsh has testified before the U.S. Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism.

Dr. Walsh's comments and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Times of London, the Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications.  He has appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, from the BBC to MTV.  Last year, Dr. Walsh served as historical consultant for the documentary, Fortress Australia, which opened at the Melbourne Film Festival and was later broadcast by Australian Broadcast Corporation.  Dr. Walsh is the terrorism and international affairs analyst for the NBC-TV affiliate in Boston and is a frequent contributor to CNN and National Public Radio. 

Dr. Walsh's writings have appeared in several scholarly journals including Political Science Quarterly, the Nonproliferation Review, International Studies Review, and Contemporary Security Policy.  Dr. Walsh is founder and chair of the Harvard International Working Group on Radiological Weapons.  He is also editor of the book series, Terrorism: Documents of International & Local Control, and is currently working on a book about Iran.  He is the author of “Nuclear Terrorism: Risk, Consequences, and Response,” a chapter which appears in Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (MIT Press, 2002).

Before coming to Harvard University, Dr. Walsh was a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country's three nuclear weapons labs.  Previously, he was named a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar by the United States Institute for Peace and won the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.  Dr. Walsh received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.