James M. Acton is a British academic and scientist.Library of Congress authority file, James M. Acton, no2009-183674 He is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, James M. Acton
Early life Acton was awarded his PhD in theoretical physics at Cambridge University.
Political views In July 2024 signed an open letter against inviting Ukraine into NATO.
Career Acton was a member of the faculty of the Department of War Studies at King's College London.
Acton's research projects have included analyses of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in Iran, verifying disarmament in North Korea and preventing novel forms of radiological terrorism."Carnegie Appoints Leading Expert on Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation," Carnegie Endowment press release, 18 November 2008.
Fukushima In the context of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Acton was able to distill a succinct analysis which was widely reported. "One Month After Tsunami, What Are Japan's Biggest Needs?" NewsHour (U.S.) 11 April 2011. "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic...This was a crisis that played out in real time on TV. Chernobyl did not.""Analysis: A month on, Japan nuclear crisis still scarring," International Business Times (Australia). 9 April 2011, retrieved 2011-04-12. "The key question is whether we have correctly predicted the risk that a reactor could be hit by a disaster (natural or man-made) that is bigger than it is designed to withstand."Owen, Jonathan. "More than one in 10 nuclear power plants at risk from earthquakes," The Independent (UK). 3 April 2011.
Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Acton, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 268 library holdings. WorldCat Identities : Acton, James M.
The Use of Voluntary Safeguards to Build Trust in States' Nuclear Programmes: the Case of Iran (2007) Beyond the Dirty Bomb: Re-thinking Radiological Terror (2007) Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (2008), with George Perkovich Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (2009), with George Perkovich Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security, and Low Numbers: A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions (2011)
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