John Hart
Citizenship: United States
Position at SIPRI: Head, Chemical and Biological Security Project
Subject expertise:
Chemical and biological weapons; arms control and disarmament; verification; secrecy policy; non-state actor developments; military history
Regional expertise: Russia
Languages:
English, Russian
Education:
Doctoral candidate, Military Sciences, Finnish National Defence University
Contact: Email; Phone: +46 8 655 97 31
John Hart is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Chemical and Biological Security Project of the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. He joined SIPRI in 2001.
Current activities
- Historical, legal, political and technical aspects of chemical and biological weapons
- Chemical management and oversight
- Arms control and disarmament developments
Former positions
- Verification, Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), Researcher
- Monterey Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Research Associate
- Provisional Technical Secretariat to the Preparatory Commission to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Verification Division, Intern
Professional affiliations
- Science and Technology correspondent, Applied Science and Analysis, Inc. (ASA)
- International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) on Sea-dumped Chemical Weapons, Member
Recent publications
- Garrett, B. C. and Hart, J., Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare (Scarecrow Press, 2007)
- Hart, J., ‘An introduction to the political and technical challenges posed by sea-dumped chemical and conventional weapons: the case of the Baltic Sea’, Briefing Paper no. EP/EXPO/B/SEDE/FWC/2006–10/Lot4/16, European Parliament, Directorate General External Policies of the Union, Dec. 2008
- Hart, J. and Fedchenko, V., ‘WMD inspection and verification regimes: political and technical challenges’, eds N. E. Busch and D. H. Joyner, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: the Future of International Non-Proliferation Policy (University of Georgia Press, 2009)
- Hart, J., ‘Background to selected environmental and human health effects of chemical warfare agents’, eds O. Hutzinger, D. Barceló and A. Kostianoy, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry vol. 3: Anthropogenic Compounds (Springer, 2009)
