Education
University of Chicago. University of Southern California. Pomona College.
University of Chicago. University of Southern California. Pomona College.
He teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the Institute of World Politics in Washington, District of Columbia Prior to this, he worked in the Secretary"s of Defense" General’ s Office of Net Assessment on proliferation issues. In addition to his Executive Branch service, Sokolski worked on the Hill from 1984 through 1988 as Senior Military Legislative Aide to Senator Dan Quayle, and from 1982 through 1983 as Special Assistant on Nuclear Energy Matters to Senator Gordon J. Humphrey. Sokolski has authored and edited a number of books on nuclear proliferation including, "Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future,",Best of Intentions: America"s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2001), "Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2014), "Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?" (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2013), "The Next Arms Race," (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2012), "Nuclear Power"s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks" (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2011), "Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom"(Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2008).
And Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction Its Origins and Practice (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2004).
Sokolski has been a resident fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy, the Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution. He also has taught political science courses at the University of Chicago, Rosary College, and Loyola University.
Sokolski attended the University of Southern California and Pomona College, and completed his graduate studies in political science at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and IISS and is on the editorial board of The Nonproliferation Review.
He also worked as a consultant on strategic weapons proliferation issues to the Intelligence Community"s National Intelligence Council. Received a Congressional appointment to the Deutch Proliferation Commission, which completed its report in July 1999. Served as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency"s Senior Advisory Panel from 1995 to 1996.
And was a member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, which operated until 2010.
