Henry Sokolski

Sokolski directs the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and serves on the U.S. Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism. Previously, he worked as a deputy for nonproliferation policy at the Defense Department; as a member of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction; and as a special assistant on nuclear energy matters to former New Hampshire Republican Sen. Gordon Humphrey.

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Articles by Henry Sokolski

Opinion
17 June 2009
Nuclear WeaponsNuclear Energy

Locking down the NPT

Henry SokolskiVictor Gilinsky

President Barack Obama recently spoke of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's (NPT) importance, as has every president since Lyndon B. Johnson who signed the treaty in 1968. Yet they have all, to a lesser or greater degree, weakened the treaty, through lax enforcement, by carving out exceptions for certain countries, or by just ignoring it. We have come to the point now that North Korea, which signed the treaty in 1985, is now mocking it.