Shannon N. Kile

Senior Researcher

Shannon N. Kile

Shannon N. Kile is a Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction 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 world nuclear forces for the SIPRI Yearbooks since 1994. In recent years his work has broadened to include regional security issues related to the Middle East and Northeast Asia, with a special interest in North Korea, where he has traveled regularly.

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

CONTACT Shannon N. Kile

Citizenship

United States

SIPRI COMMENTARY

11 Nov. 2013: Time for a more comprehensive approach to the Iran nuclear negotiations (Expert comment, November 2013 )
12 Feb. 2013: Testing times in North Korea (Expert comment, February 2013 )
Feb. 11: Taking stock of Russian–US arms control after New START (Essay, December 2010 )
Making a new START in Russian–US nuclear arms control (Essay, June 2009 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Setting the Stage for Progress towards Nuclear Disarmament (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2018)
Kile, S. N. and Kristensen, H. M., Trends in World Nuclear Forces, 2017 (July 2017)
Kile, S. N. and Kristensen, H. M., Trends in World Nuclear Forces, 2016 (June 2016)
Kile, S. N. and Kelley, R., Verifying a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty: Technical and Organizational Considerations (August 2012) 48 pp.
Europe and Iran: Perspectives on Non-proliferation2005) 152 pp.
Missile Defence and the ABM Treaty: A Status Report (June 2001) 10 pp.
Crisis in Russia: Facts and Figures, People and Data (March 1984) 28 pp.

11. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)
11. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
10. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
6. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
7. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
6. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
7. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
11. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
12. Nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
11. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2015)
6. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
7. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2014)
6. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2013)
7. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2013)
7. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2012)
8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2012)
7. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2011)
8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2011)
9. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2010)
8. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2010)
8. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2009)
9. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2009)
Appendix 8C. A survey of US ballistic missile defence programmes (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
Appendix 8A. World nuclear forces, 2008 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2007)
Appendix 12A. World nuclear forces, 2007 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2007)
6. Transparency in the arms life cycle (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
13. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
Appendix 13A. World nuclear forces, 2006 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)
Appendix 12A. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)
14. Libya’s renunciation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and ballistic missiles (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)
15. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2004)
15. Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and ballistic missile defence (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2003)
1. The Euro-Atlantic system and global security (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2003)
10. Ballistic missile defence and nuclear arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2002)
6. Nuclear arms control and ballistic missile defence (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2001)
8. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2000)
12. Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1999)
10. Nuclear arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1998)
11. Nuclear arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1997)
14. Nuclear arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1996)
16. Nuclear arms control (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 1995)

External publications

‘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)
‘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)