David Albright

David Albright, a physicist, is founder and President of the non-profit Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C. He has written numerous assessments and books on secret nuclear weapons programs. Starting in September 2002, he was the first public expert to challenge the Bush Administration on their claims of Iraqi nuclear weapons, refuting its allegations about aluminum tubes representing evidence of a rapidly maturing Iraqi nuclear weapons program. The media have frequently cited Albright, and he has appeared often on television and radio. He appeared on The Colbert Report in February 2011. During his career, Albright has testified numerous times on nuclear issues before the U.S. Congress. He has spoken to many groups, technical workshops and conferences, briefed government decision-makers, and trained many government officials in non-proliferation policy making. He has written or co-authored over ten books, including Revisiting South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program, Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies, listed by The Atlantic as one of the best foreign affairs books of 2010, Taiwan’s Former Nuclear Weapons Program: Nuclear Weapons On-Demand, and Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons.