Contact information - John Hart

John Hart (United States)
Researcher
Telephone: +46 8 655 9731
Email: John Hart

John Hart is the Head of the SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) Programme.

Previously, he worked as an on-site inspection researcher at the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) and as a research associate at the Monterey Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). He was also an intern in the Verification Division of the Provisional Technical Secretariat to the Preparatory Commission (PrepCom) to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) where he contributed to the drafting of the OPCW Declaration Handbook and prepared draft Chairmen's papers, discussion papers and Expert Group (Working Group B) reports.

He is the author of the VERTIC research reports Chemical Industry Inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention, Verification Matters no. 1, (VERTIC: London, Oct. 2001) and On-site Inspections in Arms Control and Disarmament, Verification Matters no. 4, (VERTIC: London, Oct. 2002). He also co-edited Chemical Weapon Destruction in Russia: Political, Legal and Technical Aspects (Oxford University Press, 1998) and is the author of 'The ALSOS Mission, 1943-1945: a secret U.S. scientific intelligence unit', International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (fall 2005) and 'The Soviet biological weapons program', in Eds Dando, M., Rózsa, L. and Wheelis, M., Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945 (Harvard University Press, 2006). He is the co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare (Scarecrow Press, 2007), as well as a co-author of Non-Compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention: Lessons from and for Iraq, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 5 (Oct. 2003) and of several SIPRI fact sheets. He has also contributed to Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: the Future of International Non-Proliferation Policy (University of Georgia Press, 2007, in press); the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry: Environmental Consequences of War and Aftermath (Springer Verlag, in press); Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology and History, 2 vols (ABC-CLIO, 2004); the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, and Ethics (Macmillan Reference USA, Thomson Gale, 2005); and the SIPRI Yearbooks in 1997-98 and 2002-present. In 2005 he prepared a report, Assistance for the Destruction of Chemical Weapons in Russia: Political and Technical Aspects, on behalf of the EU. He recently co-authored a paper with Ronald G. Sutherland for the OPCW Academic Forum 2007 entitled: Chemical Industry Verification Under the Chemical Weapons Convention: Scientific and Technological Developments and Diplomatic Practice.

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