Olli Heinonen
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-5663
Fax: 617-495-8963
Email: olli_heinonen@hks.harvard.edu
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June 23, 2011
"US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs: Iran and Syria: Next Steps"
Testimony
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Olli Heinonen presents testimony that will focus on the nuclear dossiers of Iran and Syria to provide a snapshot of where the nuclear programs of Iran and Syria currently stand and highlight some key implications.
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June 22, 2011
"North Korea’s Nuclear Enrichment: Capabilities and Consequences"
Op-Ed, 38 North.org
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
North Korea’s pursuit of uranium enrichment should not, and has not, come as a surprise. The pre-eminence of Juche, the political thesis of Kim Il Sung, stresses independence from great powers, a strong military posture, and reliance on national resources. Faced with an impoverished economy, political isolation from the world, and rich uranium deposits, nuclear power—both civilian as well as military—fulfills all three purposes.
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May 26, 2011
"Preventing the Next Fukushima"
Op-Ed
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
This week, when the leaders of the G8 industrial democracies gather in France, their meeting will include discussions of what steps must be taken to strengthen global nuclear safety and global nuclear security in the aftermath of the tragedy at Fukushima. The Belfer Center's Matthew Bunn and Olli Heinonen suggest new actions the world community should take in five key areas in order to prevent another Fukushima.
Summer 2011
"After Fukushima: How Should Nuclear Regulators Respond?"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
With the nuclear crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor continuing more than a month after the initial damage and radiation leaks, several Center experts responded to the question of what actions should be taken now by nuclear regulators around the world.
April 13, 2011
Nuclear Security Summit: One Year On and Looking Ahead
Op-Ed
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
We asked nuclear policy experts in Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to summarize in one paragraph the achievements in the year since President Obama convened a summit on nuclear security on April 12-13, 2010. And we asked for a second paragraph on what needs to be done in the year before the follow-up summit planned for Seoul, South Korea.
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March 30, 2011
"Pakistan in Nuclear Upswing"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"The world's five original nuclear weapons countries have all suspended production of fissile materials for new weapons and are negotiating cuts in their nuclear arsenals. But one nuclear-armed nation is heading in the opposite direction."
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January 27, 2011
"Can the Nuclear Talks with Iran Be Saved?"
Op-Ed, Foreign Policy
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Belfer Center Fellow Olli Heinonen writes, "The world's major powers are locked in a dead-end conflict with Iran over its nuclear program. Last week, talks in Istanbul between Iran and the five members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, ended badly, with no sign of a breakthrough on the horizon." Heinonon, the former head of safeguards for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), offers a proposal that "could let both sides break this impasse and start rebuilding the trust needed to get at bigger issues."
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December 6, 2010
"Break the Silence on Syria's Nuclear Program"
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School and Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
If Israel had not bombed the Al-Kibar reactor site in an air strike in September 2007, it would be producing plutonium by now for Syria's first nuclear bomb," write Belfer Center Director Graham Allison and former IAEA Deputy Director Olli Heinonen. "But this violation of Syria's treaty commitments was not discovered by IAEA inspectors....So it has been convenient for world powers to let Syria slip off the radar and to move on as if these events had not occurred." This silence, the authors argue, must be broken.
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November 5, 2010
"The Case for an Immediate IAEA Special Inspection in Syria"
Op-Ed, Policy Watch
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"The IAEA is reluctant to use such inspections, even though, in the case of Syria, circumstances cry out for one. This reluctance challenges the authority and credibility of the agency, its board of governors (made up of the representatives of thirty-five of its member states), and the ultimate guardian of the world nuclear order, the United Nations Security Council."
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November 4, 2010
"Yesterday's Tools Hamper Today's Nuclear Monitoring"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
As 700 scientists and non-proliferation specialists convene this week in Vienna to discuss future challenges for nuclear monitoring, Belfer Center Senior Fellow Olli Heinonen writes that the symposium's priority list should be to make sure the International Atomic Energy Agency has the money, staff, equipment, and systems to monitor the expected resurgence of nuclear energy around the world.
