Reiss, Mitchell

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REISS, Mitchell

REISS, Mitchell. American, b. 1957. Genres: Military/Defense/Arms control. Career: International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England, special assistant to the director, 1985; National Security Council, Washington, DC, White House fellow and special assistant to national security adviser, 1988-89; Covington & Burling (law firm), Washington, DC, associate, 198992; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, guest scholar and director of nonproliferation and counterproliferation projects, 1992-95; Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, NYC, senior policy adviser and assistant executive director, 1995-; guest on national and international radio and television programs; consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory, Library of Congress, and U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Publications: Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Nonproliferation, 1988; (ed. with R.S. Litwak and contrib.) Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War, 1994; Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities, 1995. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to magazines and newspapers. Address: Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, 600 Third Ave., 12th Floor, New York, NY 10016, U.S.A.