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Dr. Benn Tannenbaum is Associate Program Director at the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy. He works on a variety of projects for CSTSP, including drafting policy briefs, tracking legislation, serving as liaison with MacArthur-funded centers and the security policy community, organizing workshops and other meetings, attending Congressional hearings and providing testimony to Congress, and leading panel studies on areas including nuclear weapons policy, nuclear forensics, and the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. Prior to joining AAAS, Tannenbaum worked as a Senior Research Analyst for the Federation of American Scientists. He worked extensively on the FAS paper Flying Blind; this paper explores ways to increase the quality and consistency of science advising to the federal government. He also researched nuclear weapons testing and prepared a paper on the subject. He coordinated FAS's Congressional outreach efforts.
Before joining FAS, Tannenbaum served as the 2002-2003 American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow. During his Fellowship, he worked for Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) on nonproliferation issues. This work included several key nuclear policy amendments, numerous oversight letters and staffing the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation. The legislative work focused on nuclear "bunker busters," missile defense, Iran's nuclear program and preventing U.S. nuclear technology from being transferred to North Korea. The oversight letters covered issues ranging from the disbanding of the NNSA Advisory Committee, to the failure to secure known nuclear sites in Iraq, to presenting a detailed plan to solve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Through the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, Tannenbaum brought nationally recognized experts on topics such as Iran's nuclear program and political situation, dirty bombs, and the Biological Weapons Convention to brief Members of Congress and their staffs. His final Task Force event had Dr. Jane Goodall and Michael Douglas addressing the need for strong, multilateral institutions to solve problems such as nuclear proliferation and environmental damage.
Tannenbaum received his B.A. in Physics from Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; M.S. in Physics from Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI; and Ph.D. in Physics from The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
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