LOCATION: Washington, DC, United States
Websites : Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Britannica Partner Page (Society for Military History), Federation of American Scientists
Dr. Norris was a senior research associate with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC from 1984 to his retirement in 2011. His principal areas of expertise include writing and research on all aspects of the nuclear weapons programs of the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, Britain, France, and China, as well as India, Pakistan, and Israel.
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University in 1976, and has taught at New York University, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Miami University’s European campus in Luxembourg, and American University in Washington, DC.
His books include Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age (2014), A Guide to the Manhattan Project in Manhattan (2012), and The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: A History of Weapons and Delivery Systems since 1945 (2009), among others.
