James M. Acton

James M. Acton

James M. Acton is a British academic and scientist.[1] He is a senior associate of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[2]

Early life

Acton was awarded his PhD in theoretical physics at Cambridge University.[2]

Career

Acton was a member of the faculty of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London.[1]

Acton’s research projects have included analyses of IAEA safeguards in Iran, verifying disarmament in North Korea and preventing novel forms of radiological terrorism.[3]

Fukushima

In the context of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents, Acton was able to distill a succinct analysis which was widely reported.[4]

  • "Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic...This was a crisis that played out in real time on TV. Chernobyl did not."[5]
  • "The key question is whether we have correctly predicted the risk that a reactor could be hit by a disaster (natural or man-made) that is bigger than it is designed to withstand."[6]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Acton, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 268 library holdings.[7]

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  • The Use of Voluntary Safeguards to Build Trust in States' Nuclear Programmes: the Case of Iran (2007)
  • Beyond the Dirty Bomb: Re-thinking Radiological Terror (2007)
  • Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (2008), with George Perkovich
  • Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (2009), with George Perkovich
  • Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security, and Low Numbers: A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions (2011)

Notes

  1. 1 2 Library of Congress authority file, James M. Acton, no2009-183674
  2. 1 2 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, James M. Acton
  3. ↑ "Carnegie Appoints Leading Expert on Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation," Carnegie Endowment press release, 18 November 2008.
  4. ↑ "One Month After Tsunami, What Are Japan's Biggest Needs?" NewsHour (U.S.) 11 April 2011. Archived 12 April 2011 at WebCite
  5. ↑ "Analysis: A month on, Japan nuclear crisis still scarring," International Business Times (Australia). 9 April 2011, retrieved 2011-04-12. Archived 18 April 2011 at WebCite
  6. ↑ Owen, Jonathan. "More than one in 10 nuclear power plants at risk from earthquakes," The Independent (UK). 3 April 2011. Archived 3 April 2011 at WebCite
  7. ↑ WorldCat Identities Archived 30 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine.: Acton, James M.
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