Hans Kristensen on the present status of the U.S. nuclear arsenal
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Hans Kristensen
This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Hans M. Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he provides the public with analysis and background information about the status of nuclear forces and the role of nuclear weapons. The discussion covers the present U.S. nuclear weapons rebuild, U.S. nuclear policies, and how to break through the Washington gridlock to achieve true disarmament. Kristensen specializes in using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in his research and is a frequent consultant to and is widely referenced in the news media on the role and status of nuclear weapons. Kristensen’s collaboration with researchers at the National Resources Defense Council in 2010 resulted in an estimate of the size of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile that was only 13 weapons off the actual number declassified by the U.S. government. Kristensen is co-author of the Nuclear Notebook column in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the World Nuclear Forces overview in the SIPRI Yearbook. The Nuclear Notebook is, according to the publisher, “widely regarded as the most accurate source of information on nuclear weapons and weapons facilities available to the public.”