Paul Leventhal died today at age 69
April 10, 2007
(Updated April 26, 2007)
Paul Leventhal, founder of the Nuclear Control Institute, died today at age 69. He lost his last tough fight, to metastatic melanoma.
Leventhal’s bio follows, as well as a summary of the initiatives he led at the Institute over 25 years.
The papers documenting these initiatives have been collected and catalogued at the National Security Archive, George Washington University, in Washington. The Institute’s website will remain online and is being redesigned into a permanent, easily searchable archive.
 Paul Leventhal Bio
NCI Collection Initiatives
Share Your Thoughts
In Memoriam--Paul Leventhal
by Hon. Edward J. Markey April 23, 2007
Obits in media:
 ENS April 10, 2007
Secrecy News April 10, 2007
New York Times April 12, 2007
Washington Post April 14, 2007
NCR of Iran April 16, 2007
Guardian Unlimited April 17, 2007
The Times April 17, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald April 18, 2007
BBC Radio April 20, 2007
Washington Times April 22, 2007
Memorial Service for Paul Leventhal
April 20, 2007
The memorial service for Paul Leventhal, Founding President of the Nuclear Control Institute, was held on Monday, April 23, 2007, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
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Sacrificing the NPT on an Altar of Expediency
December 8, 2006
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'Nuclear Cooperation is Catastrophe'
October 17, 2006
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Responding to Former Senator Nunn,
NCI's Leventhal cites failures of
Atoms for Peace and warns against
international nuclear fuel centers
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Paul Leventhal
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Sen. Sam Nunn
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What's needed is 'new toughness'
toward proliferators, not more
nuclear cooperation, he
tells NY Times readers
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NY Times letter to the editorOct 17, 2006 |
Restraints Fray and Risks Grow as Nuclear
Club Gains Members NY Times Oct 15, 2006 |
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism Voice of America
Oct. 25, 2006  Listen[MP3] Listen[RealAudio] |
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Background materials:
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"Fixing Ike's Flawed Nuclear Plan" Leventhal
statement on 50th anniversary of President
Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech Dec 8, 2003 |
The Warning Not Heeded Excerpt from
the Acheson-Lilienthal Report March 16, 1946 |
Text of President Eisenhower's Atoms
for Peace address to the UNDec 8, 1953 |
Avoid new US-Russian nuclear arms race
to help prevent further spread of the bomb
Radio Netherlands interview Nov 18, 2004 |
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NRC Reverses Post-9/11 Secrecy Policy In Response to NCI Appeal
September 26, 2006
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Will disclose amounts of bomb-grade uranium
requested for export; Public to regain role in
minimizing dangerous nuclear commerce
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NCI's Kuperman
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NRC's Klein
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NCI Press Release
Sept. 26, 2006
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NRC Chairman Klein’s letter to NCI,
repealing secrecy policy
Aug. 31, 2006
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NCI Press Release
June 12, 2006
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NCI's appeal letter to Diaz
June 12, 2006
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NRC Chairman Diaz' letter to NCI,
partially repealing secrecy policy
Apr 26, 2006
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NCI's original letter to Diaz, requesting
complete lifting of secrecy policy
Feb 13, 2006
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Press Accounts
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NRC restores policy of issuing information
on HEU exports
Sept. 18, 2006
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University of Texas professor fights U.S. uranium
exports
Austin American-Statesman May 13, 2006 |
Bombs Away in Canada
The Ottawa Citizen June 17, 2006
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Nuclear Sites Vulnerable
The Ottawa Citizen June 17, 2006
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Earlier NCI News on Bomb-Grade Uranium
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Bomb-Grade Bazaar Increases Nuclear Terrorism Risk
NRC Secrecy Increases Risks of Bomb-Grade Uranium
Reversing an Abomination on Capitol Hilll
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Congress Acts to Block US Plutonium Fuel Program
September 14, 2006
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NCI joins with 59 groups to urge House Energy Committee Chairman Hobson to beat back Senate efforts to reinstate DOE's dangerous plutonium MOX-fuel boondoggle
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House Energy Committee Chairman David Hobson
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Related Articles & Documents
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Press Release Sept 14, 2006 [PDF] |
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Letter to Chairman Hobson Sept 14, 2006 [PDF] |
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NCI's 25th Anniversary
June 21, 2006
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Nuclear Control Institute
marks its 25th anniversary
with NY Times ad of June 21, 1981,
'Will Tomorrow's Terrorist
Have an Atomic Bomb?'
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'Remarkably and sadly,'
says NCI founder Leventhal,
'the ad that launched us a quarter-century ago
reads almost as if it were written today.'
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NY Times ad 1981
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NCI founder Paul Leventhal
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Statement by Paul Leventhal
June 21, 2006 |
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NY Times ad
June 21, 1981
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High resolution version of ad
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NRC Partially Overturns Post 9/11 Secrecy Policy
June 12, 2006
Acts on NCI's request to reveal details
of bomb-grade uranium exports; NCI now
appeals to lift remaining secrecy as illegal.
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NCI's Kuperman at University of Texas
Credit: Deborah Cannon, Austin American-Statesman
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NCI Press Release
June 12, 2006
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NRC Chairman Diaz' letter to NCI,
partially repealing secrecy policy
Apr 26, 2006
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NCI's original letter to Diaz, requesting
complete lifting of secrecy policy
Feb 13, 2006
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NCI's appeal letter to Diaz
June 12, 2006
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Press Accounts
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University of Texas professor fights U.S. uranium
exports
Austin American-Statesman May 13, 2006 |
Bombs Away in Canada
The Ottawa Citizen June 17, 2006
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Nuclear Sites Vulnerable
The Ottawa Citizen June 17, 2006
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Has Iran Crossed the Line?
April 11, 2006
Iranian announcement of successful uranium enrichment is ominous because it may bring Iran closer to producing the bomb in
secret facilities, Leventhal warns
on PBS' NewsHour
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Debates ISIS' David
Albright on the
significance of Iran's
accomplishment
and the need for
Security Council
action to strengthen international
inspections and
impose sanctions
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Leventhal, Albright and
PBS' Margaret Warner
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NewsHour transcript and webcast
April 11, 2006
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News Reports
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U.N. Agency Says Iran Falls Short on Nuclear
Data
New York Times April 29, 2006 |
Iran Reports Big Advance in Enrichment
of Uranium New York Times
April 12, 2005
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US warns Iran on nuclear announcement Reuters
April 11, 2006 |
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Related Documents
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Text of ElBaradei's confidential report to IAEA
Board and UN Security Council
June 8, 2006
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Text of ElBaradei's confidential report to IAEA
Board & UN Security Council
April 28, 2006
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"Confronting Iran" Presentation by former Israeli
Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon (Distinguished
Military Fellow of the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy) to the Hudson Institute
March 7, 2006
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Facing Down Iran by Mark Steyn
Wall Street Journal
April 19, 2006
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Compilation of information on Iran's secret
nuclear & WMD activities provided by
the Iranian opposition since 2002
Jan 31, 2006
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Text of ElBaradei's confidential report to IAEA
Board & UN Security Council
Feb 27, 2006
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U.N. Security Council's Draft Statement on
Iranian Nuclear Program ABC News
Mar 18, 2006
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Nuclear Agreement with India: An Atrocity in the Making
April 9, 2006
Proposed nuclear deal tosses out the
nonproliferation baby with the U.S.-India
bathwater, NCI's Leventhal
warns in Voice of America's
'Encounter' broadcast
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Lively debate with Hopkins' Andersen
on the benefits vs. risks of India's use
of some Atoms for Peace reactors to
produce plutonium for weapons
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Transcript of excerpts from "Encounter" debate
April 9, 2006 |
Webcast of "Encounter" debate
April 9, 2006
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[Windows Media format]
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An Unrealistic View of Nuclear India
 Letter to the editor of Washington Post
by Paul Leventhal April 26, 2006
Op-Ed article in Washington Post by Selig
Harrison How to Regulate Nuclear Weapons
April 23, 2006 |
"Full-Scope IAEA Safeguards as a Global
Norm," released by Nuclear Control Institute
April 21, 2006
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President Bush's Astonishing Statement On
Plutonium Reprocessing
, excerpt from transcript
of press conference in India March 2, 2006
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CIRUS Reactor's Role in a U.S.-India Nuclear
Agreement
Presentation by Paul Leventhal
at CNS Seminar, Dececember 19, 2005
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"India Cheated" Washington Post op-ed article
by Victor Gilinsky and Paul Leventhal on use of
CIRUS Atoms for Peace reactor to produce
plutonium for nuclear weapons June 15, 1998
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India's "peaceful nuclear explosion" of 1974
(made with CIRUS plutonium) was a bomb
all along
, top Indian scientist acknowledges
Associated Press October 10, 1997
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Then-Secretary of State Kissinger acknowledges
what the State Department today denies: "high
probability" that India used U.S.-supplied heavy
water in CIRUS reactor to produce plutonium
for nuclear test. Congressional Record,
pp. S14917-14929 August 30, 1976
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U.S.-India CIRUS agreement
requiring use
of heavy water "only for peaceful purposes"
March 16, 1956
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Canada-India CIRUS agreement
requiring use
of the reactor and any products (plutonium) for
"peaceful purposes only." April 28, 1956
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Historical Documents Regarding India's Misuse
of Civilian Nuclear Technology Assistance
(Declassified U.S. Government Documents from
the Early-1970s) Arms Control Association
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"An End to Nuclear Proliferation or an End
to Nuclear Non-Proliferation?" Presentation
by Paul Leventhal to Carnegie Endowment
meeting on 1998 nuclear tests July 16, 1998
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Issues and Questions on July 18 Proposal for
Nuclear Cooperation with India Joint Letter
from Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Experts to Members of Congress Arms
Control Association November 18, 2005
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Joint Letter from Arms Control and
Nonproliferation Experts
to Members of
Congress Arms Control Association
February 14, 2006
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"Analysis of the Administration's draft legislation
to change US Laws to Facilitate Nuclear
Cooperation with India" by Leonor Tomero,
Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation
April 9, 2006
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"India's Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit
Procurement and the Leakage of Technical
Centrifuge Know-How," ISIS Report by David
Albright and Susan Basu, Institute for Science
and International Security March 10, 2006
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"Neither a Determined Proliferator Nor
a Responsible Nuclear State: India's Record
Needs Scrutiny," ISIS Issue Brief by David
Albright and Susan Basu, Institute for Science
and International Security April 5, 2006
[PDF]
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How to Deal with Iran in the Security Council?
March 20, 2006
NCI's Leventhal and Monterey's Spector
explore strategies for halting Iran's nuclear
weapons program on Voice of America's
'Encounter' Show; Need for tough stand
and for empowering international
inspectors is debated.
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Leonard Spector
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Paul Leventhal
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Audio webcast of Voice of America's 'Encounter'
Mar 12, 2006
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Audio webcast of Australian Broadcasting
interview, 'Nuclear Diplomacy in Iran'
Mar 09, 2006
Listen
[Windows Media format]
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Related Articles & Documents
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Former Russian nuclear minister Viktor Mikhailov
discusses U.S. involvement in Iran's nuclear
build-up, Iran's ambitions, and other issues:
Interview: Viktor Mikhailov Part 1
RIA Novosti via UPI Mar 22, 2006
Interview: Viktor Mikhailov: Part 2
RIA Novosti via UPI Mar 23, 2006 |
U.N. Security Council's Draft Statement on
Iranian Nuclear Program
ABC News Mar 18, 2006
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Use
Universities for Research to Build the Bomb
Statement by Alireza Jafarzadeh on Iranian
opposition's latest information Mar 20, 2006 |
Claim: Iran uses academic institutions to hide
nuke program
UPI Mar 20, 2006 |
Top foreign affairs envoys try to break
Iran impasse
Reuters Mar 20, 2006 |
Suppose We Just Let Iran Have the Bomb?
New York Times Mar 19, 2006 |
UNSC Iran talks yield no result IRNA
Mar 18, 2006
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US, Britain, France upbeat on Iran agreement
Reuters Mar 18, 2006 |
UN Council accord on Iran eludes major powers
Reuters Mar 16, 2006 |
Showdown at U.N.? Iran Seems Calm
New York Times Mar 16, 2006 |
Text of ElBaradei's confidential report to IAEA
Board & UN Security Council
Feb 27, 2006
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