Richard L. Garwin

Richard L. Garwin is the Former Chair of the Department of State's Arms Control and Non-proliferation Advisory Board, a Member of the Defense Science Board of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and a member of the Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States.September 16, 2002.

Garwin is a member of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. A biogrpahical note states that Garwin "has done a wide range of research in fundamental and applied physics. He was involved with the development of the first thermonuclear weapons and the first photo-intelligence satellites and is a leading expert on many arms control matters. He has served on the President's Scientific Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and, most recently, on the Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. He is also Fellow Emeritus at IBM, where he was on the scientific staff for the bulk of his career, and is now the Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations."

In an April 9, 2001 speech for the Nuclear Control Institute titled [1] "Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?" Garwin agrees nuclear power provides only 20% of the world’s electricity which is only 1/3 of all power (i.e. 6% nuclear). At that rate of use there's a fifty year supply of Uranium Oxide - the only fuel used today for nuclear reactors. If nuclear power were to be substituted for fossil fuels 300 nuclear power plants today would become 9000 and there would only be a two year supply.

Books

• with Georges Charpak) is Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons.