Shannon N. Kile
Citizenship: USA
Position at SIPRI:
Senior Researcher
Subject expertise:
Multilateral nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament; strategic nuclear arms reductions; global nuclear forces and doctrines; and missile proliferation and ballistic missile defence
Regional expertise: Korean peninsula; Iran and the Greater Middle East
Education:
PhD studies, Defence and Arms Control Studies Programme,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Contact: Email Phone: +46 8 655 97 57
Shannon N. Kile is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Nuclear Weapons Project of the SIPRI Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme. His principal areas of research are nuclear arms control and non-proliferation with a special interest in the nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea. Mr Kile has contributed to numerous SIPRI publications, including chapters on nuclear arms control and nuclear forces and weapon technology for the SIPRI Yearbooks since 1994. In recent years his work has broadened to include regional security issues related to Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Current activities
- Head, SIPRI Project on Nuclear Weapons
- Leader, project on Iran and multilateral security cooperation in south west Asia
- Coordinator of SIPRI project activities with DPR Korea
Recent publications
- ‘Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation’, SIPRI Yearbook 2009: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009)
- ‘A survey of US ballistic missile defence programmes’, SIPRI Yearbook 2008: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008)
- ‘Promoting transparency in nuclear forces and doctrines’, ed. S. Lodgaard, Is Anything Doable in the Field of Nuclear Disarmament?, NUPI Policy Brief (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo: 2007)
- Editor, Europe and Iran: Perspectives on Non-proliferation, SIPRI Research Report no. 21 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2005)
- ‘Breaking the North Korean nuclear stalemate’, Coping with Korea’s Security Challenges vol. 1: The North Korean Nuclear Issue (Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security: Seoul, 2004)
