Robert Kelley

Robert Kelley is a nuclear engineer from the United States who has worked in the US Department of Energy Complex for over 30 years. He has been associated with SIPRI since 2009 and has been an Associated Senior Research Fellow since 2010. He currently consults on nuclear proliferation after working in defence nuclear programs at Livermore, Los Alamos and was Director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bob was a Director at the IAEA in Vienna and has field experience as a Chief Inspector for IAEA in Iraq, in the evaluation of South Africa’s nuclear weapons in 1993, and the inspections of the vestiges of Libya’s nuclear weapons program in 2004. He recently published evidence of a nuclear program in Burma for the Democratic Voice of Burma. He has carried out IAEA inspections or visits in Libya, Iraq, and South Africa, Egypt, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Syria, Tanzania, Pakistan, India, and DR Congo. Bob’s practical laboratory experience includes plutonium metallurgy, gas centrifuge design, weapons engineering, nuclear emergency response and remote sensing. Bob is also associated with Gregg Services of the US and is a member of the International Verification Consultants Network of VERTIC in London. He lives in the Vienna Woods suburb of Klosterneuburg, with his wife Kathy, who is a technical translator for the IAEA.