Biography
Gordon R. Thompson, D.Phil., is the executive director of IRSS. He was educated in Australia and the UK, in engineering and science, obtaining his doctorate from Oxford University in 1973. Dr. Thompson has been based in the United States since 1979. Over the past three decades he has acquired wide experience with natural resource, international security, and sustainability issues. One of his areas of interest is the impacts of nuclear technologies and the opportunities to limit those impacts. Dr. Thompson has coordinated multidisciplinary teams, organized international conferences, and provided expert testimony in a variety of contexts.
Gordon Thompson is also a senior research scientist at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University. His research addresses diverse technical and policy issues relevant to global human security and the pursuit of a sustainable civilization.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Gordon Thompson is also a senior research scientist at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University. His research addresses diverse technical and policy issues relevant to global human security and the pursuit of a sustainable civilization.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Books by Gordon R. Thompson
War, Terrorism and Nuclear Pow
War, Terrorism and Nuclear Power Plants
A global approach to controlli
A global approach to controlling nuclear weapons
A Global Approach to Controlli
A Global Approach to Controlling Nuclear Weapons (Perspectives on Proliferation Series, : Occasional Paper No 2)
The nuclear freeze revisited
The nuclear freeze revisited
Evidence to the Windscale Inqu
Evidence to the Windscale Inquiry on the safety assessment of nuclear fuel reprocessing, storage and ancillary activities
Nuclear-Free Zones