Dr. Milton Leitenberg, – University of Maryland

After a half dozen years as an academic and researcher in the sciences, Milton Leitenberg began work in the field of arms control in the fall of 1966.  In January 1968, he went to Sweden as the first American recruited to work at SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.  He then worked on research projects for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Ministry of Defense while located at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, spending a total of 17 years working in Sweden.  During this period, he also spent five years at the Center for International Studies at Cornell University and held two Visiting Professorships, at Cornell University and at the Paterson Graduate School of International Studies, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.  Since 1989, he has been at the Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland, currently as Senior Research Scholar.

In the years since 1966, Leitenberg has authored or edited ten books and written over 180 papers, monographs, and book chapters.  These cover a wide range of subjects in the traditional areas of arms control – such as nuclear, biological, chemical and conventional weapons, military expenditure, arms transfer, defense industry, and weapons research and development – as well as actual wars and conflicts and foreign military intervention since the end of World War II. His recent research has focused on biological weapons.