Dr. Lawrence Scheinman

DR. LAWRENCE SCHEINMAN

Dr. Lawrence Scheinman is currently Distinguished Professor at the James C. Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the former Assistant Director (Assistant Secretary) of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency responsible for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control, a post to which he was appointed by the President in 1994 and held through late 1997. He was Professor of Government (International Law and Relations) at Cornell University from 1974-1996 (now retired) and served as Director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society as well as Director and later Associate Director of the Peace Studies Program. Dr. Scheinman previously held tenured posts at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles before coming to Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, a J D. from New York University School of Law and a BA. from Brandeis University. He is admitted to practice before the Bar of the State of New York.

Dr. Scheinman has been involved in international nuclear and technology related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for four decades. He served as Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the Office of International Policy Planning at the Energy Research and Development Administration (1976); as Principal Deputy to the Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary (1977, 1978) with particular responsibility for dealing with US-Japanese peaceful nuclear relations) and with INFCE where he led the US delegation on Assurance of Nuclear Supply; as Special Assistant to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nonproliferation and arms control matters (1/1986- 9/1987, 1992); as Counselor for Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy (late 1993-early 1994) and as Assistant Director of ACDA (1994-1997). In that capacity he was one of the US Delegation Heads at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference and subsequent Prep-Com and US Head of Delegation to the NPT Depositary Meetings with the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom. Most recently (2004-2005) he served as Policy Advisor to the IAEA Expert Group Study on Multilateral Nuclear Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and on the Senate Foreign Relations Policy Advisory Group (2005-2007).. Earlier he was a member of the Department of State Advisory Board on Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (1998-2001) and from 1981-1987 served on the Department of State Advisory Committee on Oceans, Environment and Scientific Affairs.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a member of the Core Group of the Programme for the Promotion of Non-Proliferation; and of the Advisory Committee of the Atlantic Council for the United States Non-Proliferation Project; as well as of the Washington Council on Nonproliferation; and of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Scientists. Dr. Scheinman has been the Visiting Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1969-70) while on leave from the University of Michigan, and Fellow of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1967-1968) on leave from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is included in American Men of Science and Who's Who in the East. In 1997 he received the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's highest tribute, the Distinguished Honor Award.

Dr. Scheinman has published extensively in the fields of non-proliferation, arms control and international nuclear and technology cooperation, as well as international law.. His books and monographs; include Atomic Energy Policy in France Under the Fourth Republic (Princeton University Press, 1965); International Law and Political Crisis (co-editor and co-author) Little Brown & Co. 1968; EURATOM: Nuclear Integration in Europe (Carnegie Endowment, 1967); Nuclear Safeguards, The Peaceful Atom and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Carnegie Endowment, 1969); The Non-Proliferation Role of the International Atomic Energy: A Critical Assessment (Resources for the Future, 1985); The IAEA and World Nuclear Order (Resources for the Future, 1987); Non-Proliferation and the IAEA: A US-Soviet Agenda (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1985); Assuring the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Safeguards System (Atlantic Council of the United States, 1992).; Implementing Resolution 1540: The Role of Regional Organizations (editor and co-author) UNIDIR 2008

Recent articles and essays include “A Schematic History of Safeguards Policy”, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management (Summer, 2008); “Equal Opportunity: Historical Challenges and Future Prospects of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle” Arms Control Today (May 2007); “Disarmament: Have the Five Nuclear Powers Done Enough?” Arms Control Today (Jan-Feb.2005); “The Nuclear Conundrum: Reconciling Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation” (with W. Potter) Harvard International Review (Winter 2005); “The US-India Nuclear Deal: Taking Stock” (with Fred McGoldrick and Harold Bengelsdorf) Arms Control Today (October 2005) “The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Challenge for Nonproliferation,” Disarmament Diplomacy, 76 (March/April 2004); “Shadow and Substance: Securing the Future of Atoms for Peace” IAEA Bulletin (December, 2003); “Israel, India and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime,” [with Marvin Miller] Arms Control Today (December, 2003) “Transcending Sovereignty in the Management and Control of Nuclear Materials” in IAEA Bulletin, (December,. 2001) and in Journal of Nuclear Materials Management (Winter, 2002); “U.S. Nuclear Policy, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Retrospect and Prospect,” in Disarmament in the 21st Century: Appeal from Hiroshima (Hiroshima Peace Institute Press, 2002); “The Non-Proliferation Regime and Fissile Materials”(in P. Leventhal, ed. Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Can We Have One Without The Other? Brassey Press, 2002); “Implications of the War against Terrorism for the Non-Proliferation Regime” in M. Barletta (ed) After 9/11: Preventing Mass-Destruction Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation (MIIS/CNS Occasional Paper #8, 2002); “Nuclear Weapons and Peace in the Middle East” in S. Spiegel (Ed) Dynamics of Middle East Proliferation (Mellen Press, 2002); "Arms Control Treaties and Confidence-Building Measures as Management Tools" (with M.Krepon) in Crocker et al (eds) Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing Conflict (Washington, USIP, 2001); "Regimes, Defense and Deterrence" (The CBW Conventions Bulletin, June, 2000) - a longer version appears as "Possible Responses to Chemical and Biological Weapon Attacks" in J.Goldblat (ed) Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to Banishing the Bomb ( London, I.B.Tauris; 2000); "Politics and Pragmatism: The Challenges for NPT 2000" (Arms Control Today, April 2000); "Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Non-Proliferation Regime," (PPNN Issue Brief 16, May, 1999);

Dr. Scheinman holds an active “Q” Clearance.

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