Joseph Pilat

Joseph F. Pilat is a program manager in the Center for National Security and International Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He served as Representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Fourth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and as senior adviser to the US Delegation at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. Dr. Pilat also served as representative of the Secretary of Defense to the Open Skies negotiations. He has held positions in the Pentagon and the Congressional Research Service, and has taught at Cornell University, Georgetown University and the College of William and Mary. Most recently, he is the co-editor of the Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation and Policy (Routledge, 2015), the co-author of The Politics of Weapons Inspections (Stanford University Press, 2017), the editor of Nuclear Latency and Hedging: Concepts, History and Issues (Woodrow Wilson Press, 2019), the editor of The International Atomic Energy Agency: Historical reflections, Current Challenges and Future Prospects (Routledge, 2021) and the co-author of The End of Arms Control? Challenges to Arms Control and Nonproliferation after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (forthcoming from Columbia University Press).