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Milton Leitenberg

January 20, 2023

Milton Leitenberg is an American academic specializing in arms control and weapons of mass destruction. He is a senior research associate with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), a division within the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.[1]

Milton Leitenberg
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Senior Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland
Academic background
EducationBSc Biology and Chemistry, City College of New York
MSc Biochemistry, Johns Hopkins University and Brandeis University
Academic work
DisciplineArms control
Main interestsWeapons of mass destruction, biological warfare, bioterrorism, nuclear warfare, chemical warfare

Education and early career

He received a bachelor of science in biology and chemistry from the City College of New York in 1955. He did graduate work in biochemistry at Johns Hopkins University and Brandeis University.[1] After several years of research he taught at Vassar College, Northeastern University and Washington University in St. Louis. He transitioned to full time specialization in arms control in September 1966. In January 1968 he became the first American to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Upon return to the United States, he became associated with university arms control research institutes, and published a series of books and papers on nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and arms control.[1]

Comments on COVID-19 outbreak

News agencies call upon him as an arms control expert, most recently to comment upon the possibility that the COVID-19 virus had escaped from one of the two virology laboratories in Wuhan, China.[2] In a June 2020 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists he examined the evidence for an accidental escape of the virus from a laboratory. He concluded that such an escape is "a plausible, if unproven, possibility", as is the alternative explanation of a natural evolution in the field, and that the true source of the virus is currently unknown.[3]

The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History

In 2012, Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas co-authored The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History. A review in the journal Microbe described the book as "a significant source document for microbiologists, policy makers, historians, and students interested in this important subject".[4] Tim Trevan writing in Nature called the book "an authoritative take on the Soviet Union's vast, covert and costly bioweapons programme" and "a major contribution to the field".[5] Michael D. Gordin said in The Historian, "This is a magisterial history of something that was not supposed to exist."[6] In a 15-page monograph from the Harvard-Sussex Program, John R. Walker said "Undoubtedly The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History will be the standard and definitive reference source on this issue for years to come... a thoroughly impressive achievement by any standard."[7]

See also

Bibliography

  • Leitenberg, M. (2020). The Question of Covid-19 Mortality in China, CBRNe World.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2020). Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean False Allegations of Biological Weapons Use during the Korean War, Sources and Methods: A Blog of the History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2020). Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2019). Russian Disinformation Campaigns re Biological Weapons in the Putin Era [Presentation to the NDU/CNS Tucker CBW Symposium].
  • Leitenberg, M. (2019). Putin and the Undoing of the INF Treaty. Memorandum, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2018). The Hazards of Operations Involving Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War. Journal of Cold War Studies, 20(3), 207-249.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2018). A Review of the Question of WMD Terrorism. Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2018). A History of the Russian and Soviet Chemical Weapons Program [Presentation at CISSM, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, April 27, 2018].
  • Leitenberg, M. (2016). China's False Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States During the Korean War. Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Working Paper Series, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Working Paper # 78.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2014). The Biological Weapons Program of the Soviet Union. Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2014), testimony, Subcommittee on Europe,  Eurasia,  and ND  Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Hearings: Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat: Russia and Beyond. 7 May 2014, 113th Congress. (video, transcript)
  • Leitenberg, M., Zilinskas, R. A., & Kuhn, J. H. (2012). The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History. Harvard University Press.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2012). North Korean Genocide, Nuclear Weapons, and Food Assistance. The Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter, 47, 1-2.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2010). Assessing the Threat of Bioterrorism. In Friedman, B. H., Harper, J., & Preble, C. A. (Eds.), Terrorizing ourselves: Why US counterterrorism policy is failing and how to fix it. Cato Institute, 161-183.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2009). Bio-Defense Way Ahead Project [Presentation at CISSM, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, September 16, 2009].
  • Leitenberg, M. (2009). Assessing the Threat of Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism: A Public Policy Issue? [Presentation at Cornell University, April 16, 2009]
  • Leitenberg, M. (2009). The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Bioterrorism, Nonproliferation Review, 16(1), 95-109.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2008). False Allegations of U.S. Biological Weapons Use During the Korean War. In Anne L. Clunan, Peter R. Lavoy, and Susan B. Martin, (Eds.), Terrorism, War, or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons. Stanford University Press.
  • Leitenberg, M. (2006). A Current Assessment of Biological Weapons [Presentation to the Harvard-Sussex Program, The University of Sussex Brighton, England].
  • Milton Leitenberg (2005). Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat. U.S. Army War College. ISBN 9781584872214. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Milton Leitenberg (2003). "Deaths in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century". Occasional Papers. Peace Studies Program. ISSN 1075-4857. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Milton Leitenberg; James Leonard; Richard Spertzel (2003). "Biodefense crossing the line". Politics and the Life Sciences. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.401.2220.
  • Milton Leitenberg (2001). "Biological Weapons in the Twentieth Century: A Review and Analysis". Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 27 (4): 267–320. doi:10.1080/20014091096774.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  • Milton Leitenberg (1999). "Aum Shinrikyo's Efforts to Produce Biological Weapons: A Case Study in the Serial Propagation of Misinformation". Terrorism and Political Violence, 11(4):149-158. DOI: 10.1080/09546559908427537.
  • Leitenberg, M. (1998). New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations: Background and Analysis, Cold War International History Project Bulletin 11.
  • Milton Leitenberg (1998). "The Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Resolved". Occasional Paper. Center for Pacific Asia Studies at Stockholm University. ISSN 0284-1541. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Milton Leitenberg (1996). The Participation of Japanese Military Forces in U.N. Peacekeeping Operations. Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Milton Leitenberg (May 1996). "Biological Weapons Arms Control: Project on rethinking arms control". Prac Paper. Center for International and Security Studies. ISSN 1065-6383. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Leitenberg, M. (1995), testimony, Senate Government Affairs Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Hearings: Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, 1 November 1995, 104th Congress.(transcript)
  • Milton Leitenberg (1987). Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters, 1980-1986. Washington Papers. Praeger. ISBN 9780275928421. ISSN 0278-937X. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Leitenberg, M. (1984). Studies of Military R&D and Weapons Development, Federation of American Scientists.
  • Leitenberg, M., Richard Dean Burns (1984). The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, 1945-1982, A Bibliographic Guide, War Peace Bibliography Series # 18, ABC-CLIO.
  • Milton Leitenberg (1983). "The Neutron Bomb and European Arms Control". Political Issues Series, Center for the Study of Armament & Disarmament. 8 (1). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Milton Leitenberg (1981). Presidential Directive (P.D.) 59: United States Nuclear Weapon Targeting Policy, Journal of Peace Research, 18(4), pp. 309–317.
  • Milton Leitenberg; Gabriel Sheffer (1979). Great Power Intervention in the Middle East. Vol. 27. Pergamon Press. ISBN 9780080238678. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  • Milton Leitenberg; Richard Dean Burns (1973). The Vietnam Conflict: Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Traumas, & Military Developments. ABC-CLIO Press. Retrieved 2020-03-21.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Milton Leitenberg". University of Maryland. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. ^ Adam Taylor (2020-01-29). "Experts debunk fringe theory linking China's coronavirus to weapons research". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-03-21. Milton Leitenberg, an expert on chemical weapons at the University of Maryland, said he and other analysts around the world had discussed the possibility that weapons development at the Wuhan lab could have led to the coronavirus outbreak in a private email chain but that no one had found convincing evidence to support the theory.
  3. ^ Milton Leitenberg (2020-06-04). "Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  4. ^ James A. Poupard (2012). "Reviews and Resources: The Soviet Biological Weapons Program—a History". Microbe. 7 (11): 533–534. doi:10.5860/choice.50-3512. S2CID 151240342.
  5. ^ Tim Trevan (2012). "Military Science: The USSR's deadly secret". Nature. 489 (7416): 364–365. doi:10.1038/489364a. S2CID 4329448.
  6. ^ Michael D. Gordin (2014). "The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History". The Historian. 76 (2): 409–410. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  7. ^ John R. Walker (2012). "The Leitenberg-Zilinskas History of the Soviet Biological Weapons Programme" (PDF). Harvard-Sussex Program Occasional Paper (2). Retrieved 2020-08-17.

External links

  • Profile on the website of the University of Maryland
  • Profile on the website of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • Profile on the website of the Wilson Center

January 20, 2023
milton, leitenberg, american, academic, specializing, arms, control, weapons, mass, destruction, senior, research, associate, with, center, international, security, studies, maryland, cissm, division, within, school, public, policy, university, maryland, natio. Milton Leitenberg is an American academic specializing in arms control and weapons of mass destruction He is a senior research associate with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland CISSM a division within the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland 1 Milton LeitenbergNationalityAmericanOccupation s Senior Research Associate Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland University of MarylandAcademic backgroundEducationBSc Biology and Chemistry City College of New York MSc Biochemistry Johns Hopkins University and Brandeis UniversityAcademic workDisciplineArms controlMain interestsWeapons of mass destruction biological warfare bioterrorism nuclear warfare chemical warfare Contents 1 Education and early career 2 Comments on COVID 19 outbreak 3 The Soviet Biological Weapons Program A History 4 See also 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External linksEducation and early career EditHe received a bachelor of science in biology and chemistry from the City College of New York in 1955 He did graduate work in biochemistry at Johns Hopkins University and Brandeis University 1 After several years of research he taught at Vassar College Northeastern University and Washington University in St Louis He transitioned to full time specialization in arms control in September 1966 In January 1968 he became the first American to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Upon return to the United States he became associated with university arms control research institutes and published a series of books and papers on nuclear weapons biological weapons and arms control 1 Comments on COVID 19 outbreak EditNews agencies call upon him as an arms control expert most recently to comment upon the possibility that the COVID 19 virus had escaped from one of the two virology laboratories in Wuhan China 2 In a June 2020 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists he examined the evidence for an accidental escape of the virus from a laboratory He concluded that such an escape is a plausible if unproven possibility as is the alternative explanation of a natural evolution in the field and that the true source of the virus is currently unknown 3 The Soviet Biological Weapons Program A History EditIn 2012 Leitenberg and Raymond A Zilinskas co authored The Soviet Biological Weapons Program A History A review in the journal Microbe described the book as a significant source document for microbiologists policy makers historians and students interested in this important subject 4 Tim Trevan writing in Nature called the book an authoritative take on the Soviet Union s vast covert and costly bioweapons programme and a major contribution to the field 5 Michael D Gordin said in The Historian This is a magisterial history of something that was not supposed to exist 6 In a 15 page monograph from the Harvard Sussex Program John R Walker said Undoubtedly The Soviet Biological Weapons Program A History will be the standard and definitive reference source on this issue for years to come a thoroughly impressive achievement by any standard 7 See also EditSoviet biological weapons programBibliography EditLeitenberg M 2020 The Question of Covid 19 Mortality in China CBRNe World Leitenberg M 2020 Soviet Chinese and North Korean False Allegations of Biological Weapons Use during the Korean War Sources and Methods A Blog of the History and Public Policy Program Wilson Center Leitenberg M 2020 Did the SARS CoV 2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory Very possibly Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Leitenberg M 2019 Russian Disinformation Campaigns re Biological Weapons in the Putin Era Presentation to the NDU CNS Tucker CBW Symposium Leitenberg M 2019 Putin and the Undoing of the INF Treaty Memorandum Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Leitenberg M 2018 The Hazards of Operations Involving Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War Journal of Cold War Studies 20 3 207 249 Leitenberg M 2018 A Review of the Question of WMD Terrorism Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Leitenberg M 2018 A History of the Russian and Soviet Chemical Weapons Program Presentation at CISSM School of Public Policy University of Maryland April 27 2018 Leitenberg M 2016 China s False Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States During the Korean War Cold War International History Project CWIHP Working Paper Series Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Working Paper 78 Leitenberg M 2014 The Biological Weapons Program of the Soviet Union Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Leitenberg M 2014 testimony Subcommittee on Europe Eurasia and ND Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Hearings Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat Russia and Beyond 7 May 2014 113th Congress video transcript Leitenberg M Zilinskas R A amp Kuhn J H 2012 The Soviet Biological Weapons Program A History Harvard University Press Leitenberg M 2012 North Korean Genocide Nuclear Weapons and Food Assistance The Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter 47 1 2 Leitenberg M 2010 Assessing the Threat of Bioterrorism In Friedman B H Harper J amp Preble C A Eds Terrorizing ourselves Why US counterterrorism policy is failing and how to fix it Cato Institute 161 183 Leitenberg M 2009 Bio Defense Way Ahead Project Presentation at CISSM School of Public Policy University of Maryland September 16 2009 Leitenberg M 2009 Assessing the Threat of Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism A Public Policy Issue Presentation at Cornell University April 16 2009 Leitenberg M 2009 The Self Fulfilling Prophecy of Bioterrorism Nonproliferation Review 16 1 95 109 Leitenberg M 2008 False Allegations of U S Biological Weapons Use During the Korean War In Anne L Clunan Peter R Lavoy and Susan B Martin Eds Terrorism War or Disease Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons Stanford University Press Leitenberg M 2006 A Current Assessment of Biological Weapons Presentation to the Harvard Sussex Program The University of Sussex Brighton England Milton Leitenberg 2005 Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat U S Army War College ISBN 9781584872214 Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg 2003 Deaths in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century Occasional Papers Peace Studies Program ISSN 1075 4857 Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg James Leonard Richard Spertzel 2003 Biodefense crossing the line Politics and the Life Sciences CiteSeerX 10 1 1 401 2220 Milton Leitenberg 2001 Biological Weapons in the Twentieth Century A Review and Analysis Critical Reviews in Microbiology 27 4 267 320 doi 10 1080 20014091096774 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint url status link Milton Leitenberg 1999 Aum Shinrikyo s Efforts to Produce Biological Weapons A Case Study in the Serial Propagation of Misinformation Terrorism and Political Violence 11 4 149 158 DOI 10 1080 09546559908427537 Leitenberg M 1998 New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Background and Analysis Cold War International History Project Bulletin 11 Milton Leitenberg 1998 The Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Resolved Occasional Paper Center for Pacific Asia Studies at Stockholm University ISSN 0284 1541 Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg 1996 The Participation of Japanese Military Forces in U N Peacekeeping Operations Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg May 1996 Biological Weapons Arms Control Project on rethinking arms control Prac Paper Center for International and Security Studies ISSN 1065 6383 Retrieved 2020 03 21 Leitenberg M 1995 testimony Senate Government Affairs Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearings Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction 1 November 1995 104th Congress transcript Milton Leitenberg 1987 Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters 1980 1986 Washington Papers Praeger ISBN 9780275928421 ISSN 0278 937X Retrieved 2020 03 21 Leitenberg M 1984 Studies of Military R amp D and Weapons Development Federation of American Scientists Leitenberg M Richard Dean Burns 1984 The Wars in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos 1945 1982 A Bibliographic Guide War Peace Bibliography Series 18 ABC CLIO Milton Leitenberg 1983 The Neutron Bomb and European Arms Control Political Issues Series Center for the Study of Armament amp Disarmament 8 1 Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg 1981 Presidential Directive P D 59 United States Nuclear Weapon Targeting Policy Journal of Peace Research 18 4 pp 309 317 Milton Leitenberg Gabriel Sheffer 1979 Great Power Intervention in the Middle East Vol 27 Pergamon Press ISBN 9780080238678 Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg Richard Dean Burns 1973 The Vietnam Conflict Its Geographical Dimensions Political Traumas amp Military Developments ABC CLIO Press Retrieved 2020 03 21 References Edit a b c Milton Leitenberg University of Maryland Retrieved 2020 03 21 Adam Taylor 2020 01 29 Experts debunk fringe theory linking China s coronavirus to weapons research Washington Post Retrieved 2020 03 21 Milton Leitenberg an expert on chemical weapons at the University of Maryland said he and other analysts around the world had discussed the possibility that weapons development at the Wuhan lab could have led to the coronavirus outbreak in a private email chain but that no one had found convincing evidence to support the theory Milton Leitenberg 2020 06 04 Did the SARS CoV 2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory Very possibly Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Retrieved 2020 08 15 James A Poupard 2012 Reviews and Resources The Soviet Biological Weapons Program a History Microbe 7 11 533 534 doi 10 5860 choice 50 3512 S2CID 151240342 Tim Trevan 2012 Military Science The USSR s deadly secret Nature 489 7416 364 365 doi 10 1038 489364a S2CID 4329448 Michael D Gordin 2014 The Soviet Biological Weapons Program A History The Historian 76 2 409 410 Retrieved 2020 08 16 John R Walker 2012 The Leitenberg Zilinskas History of the Soviet Biological Weapons Programme PDF Harvard Sussex Program Occasional Paper 2 Retrieved 2020 08 17 External links EditProfile on the website of the University of Maryland Profile on the website of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Profile on the website of the Wilson Center Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Milton Leitenberg amp oldid 1131455595, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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