Leonard Weiss

Leonard Weiss is a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. For more than 20 years, he worked in the US Senate as staff director on the Governmental Affairs Committee, writing legislation and leading investigations in the areas of nuclear proliferation and nuclear safety. He is a former tenured professor of applied mathematics and engineering at Brown University and the University of Maryland.

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Articles by Leonard Weiss

1 July 2013
AmericasMiddle East
Features

The Lavon Affair: How a false-flag operation led to war and the Israeli bomb

Leonard Weiss

The Lavon Affair, a failed Israeli covert operation directed against Egypt in 1954, triggered a chain of events that have had profound consequences for power relationships in the Middle East; the affair’s effects still reverberate today.

1 May 2006
Opinion

Power Points

Leonard Weiss
The U.S.-India nuclear agreement is the wrong deal with the wrong energy source.
1 May 2004
Feature

Pakistan: It's Déjà VU All Over Again

Leonard Weiss
Pakistan lied, stole, and conned its way to becoming a nuclear weapons power. Now it's doing the same as a nuclear broker. Will the United States do anything about it?
1 November 2003
Feature

Atoms for Peace

Leonard Weiss
Did the 50-year-old Atoms for Peace program accelerate nuclweapons proliferation? The juhas been in for some time on this question, and the answer is yes.