Washington State University’s Nathalie Wall partners with ADVANCE at WSU to host Professor Hecker.

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Washington State University’s Nathalie Wall hosts Professor Hecker, building on a partnership fostered with the help of ADVANCE at WSU External Mentor Award. As a result of a connection made with the ADVANCE at WSU External Mentor Program, Nathalie Wall, an associate professor of chemistry at Washington State University, proudly hosted internationally-renowned Professor Hecker. On July 13th, 2016 Professor Hecker spoke to students about his research project at The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) focused on reducing the risks of nuclear terrorism worldwide and the challenges of nuclear North Korea. There were two sessions, one open to all students the other for just Teaching Assistants.

To say that it was anything less than a “blast” would be an understatement.

More about Professor Hecker.

In June, Professor Hecker’s latest book was released, “Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers”. He, Nathalie Wall and Sue Clark just returned from a trip to the PR China.

Professor Hecker is currently a professor of research in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He was co-director of CISAC from 2007-2012. From 1986 to 1997, Dr. Hecker served as the fifth Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Hecker is an internationally recognized expert in plutonium science, global threat reduction, and nuclear security.

Dr. Hecker’s current research interests include plutonium science, nuclear weapons policy, nuclear security, and the safe and secure expansion of nuclear energy. Over the past 20 years, he has fostered cooperation with the Russian nuclear laboratories to secure and safeguard the vast stockpile of ex-Soviet fissile materials.

Dr. Hecker’s research projects at CISAC focus on reducing the risks of nuclear terrorism worldwide and the challenges of nuclear India, North Korea, Pakistan, and the nuclear aspirations of Iran. Dr. Hecker is also compiling and editing a book with two of his Russian colleagues on the history of Russian-U.S. laboratory-to-laboratory cooperation since 1992.

The material on this site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0810927. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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