RUSSELLSEITZ

Fellow of The Department of Physics & Associate of the Center For International Affairs

Harvard University

Date of birth: August 4, 1947.Preparatory education The Ranney School, Rumson N.J. 1961-64 1964 summer job at DOD lab; Crystal growth and hydrothermalsynthesis in gels. patented internally pumped liquid media lasers RPI 1964-5, transferred to MIT 1966; RLE, Materials Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Studied cybernetics with Professors Warren McCulloch & Marvin Minsky.and materials science and applied physics withC.S. Smith and Phillip Morrison Founded the first conservative college newspaper, in Cambridge, Ergo_Conducted research on military resource availability in Biafra, summer1968, and transferred to Harvard College, 1969-72 .Eliot House , history and science curriculum. Philomorphs, Institute of 1770, F.C. OrganizedInstitute of Politics Seminar on the Co-evolution of British& American Conservatism. Covered Apollo 11 moon launch for Conde’ Nast.

Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

1972-74 Gordon McKay Laboratory , optical materials science . High-pressure phase transformations in light element hydrides. Crystal growth in gels and non-aqueous media . Restrahl reflection of covalent solids; optical properties of alkali halides a. Laser systems with diamondoptical elements .Professors Turnbull , Wilson, & Bloembergen

1974 Granted U.S. Patent on applications of monoisotopic carbon 12 diamond

1975 Sailed KZ 12/ 4 Tara , to examine nephrite jade geology of out-island New Caledonia, and the igneous rocks of the New Hebrides Staff Scientist, Geophysics Division, C.S.Draper Laboratory, Cambridge. MIT Instrumentation Laboratory1975-1977: Materials development for instrumentation and gravity gradiometry ( inertial guidance) and down-hole deep oil welllogging.

Field Director, Mesoamerican Jade Project, Harvard Peabody Museum 1975-1979: Geochemical correlation of source areas of jade artifacts in pre-Columbian and Pacific long-distance trade.

Consultant to Train,Smith Counsel, and The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis ,on technological dependence of U.S.& NATO on metals and minerals imports.1980-1984: Further inorganic chemistry, materials science and geophysics study.Marine Photography: Breveted in Spanish navy to sail aboardHMS J.S. Elcano. One man show of OpSail tall ships shot during passages between Newport & New York, Newport News & Boston, & Philadelphia & Boston; Brick Market Gallery, Newport.

Director, Technology Assessment, R. J. Edwards, Inc., investment bankers Evaluation of primary and secondary high-technology issues for institutional investors.

Harvard University , Faculty of Arts and Sciences The Center For International Affairs.

Appointed Visiting Scholar,(1985-87), Associate , (1987-89 ),

The Department of Physics Fellow ( 2009-11)

Examined the interaction of the environmental sciences and the context of international diplomacy.

Wrote On science , technology and international security in :The Congressional Record , Foreign Affairs , The National Interest , Nature , Naturwissenschaften , The New York Times , Science , Technology Review and The Wall Street Journal

Developed quantitative correlation methods for the detection of technology transfer. and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Advocated the expansion of direct uplink television coverage of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.

Advised Ambassador Paul Nitze on evolution of the "Nuclear Winter" controversy.

Addressed 4th,and attended 6th, and 7th International Conferences on Nuclear War as member of U.S. delegation and observer for The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Investigated the Madrid abduction of Vladimir Alexandrov by Soviet Embassy personnel

Participated in the Defense Nuclear Agency's Global EffectsProgram, study of natural analogs of smoke and dust term parameterizations.

Visited China ,briefed P.R.C. Foreign Ministry on revisionist work on "nuclear winter."

Briefed NSC and Senators Warner , Boschwitz and Chafee uponreturn

Served as SDI consultant to DOE and JASON on monoisotopic diamond laser optics. Consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Trimmed lee boards, Stars & Stripes Syndicate, 28th Defense of the America's Cup, San Diego

Initiated research on antisense DNA suppression of drug production in Erythroxylon coca briefed DDCI, DEA ,DOA. and Senators Gorton and Nunn

Published work on applications of monoisotopic diamond , impact geophysics , atmospheric aerosol transport, heat conduction in monoisotopic solids, the control of emissions from oil well fires, WMD proliferation and.political misperceptions of science and technology.

Attended Japan New Diamond Science and Technology Conference for LANL

Briefed Presidential Science Advisors Jay Keyworth & WilliamGraham on isotope effects and various other matters..

Drafted & delivered aide memoire on BMD to Andrei Sakharov 1991-99:Associate and Affiliate ,Harvard University Center for International Affairs John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies :Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Participated in response to the Kuwait oil fires as conference liaison to the Environmental Science Desk of Presidential Science Advisor Allan Bromley.

Reconnoitered India-Pakistan nuclear proliferation Islamabad, Taxila , Raikot, North West Frontier Province and Northern Areas , Pakistan September-October 1997 Inspected Siberian Urals Special Metalugical Facilities, &Kazan Biophysical Laboratory fermentation research site , visited Arzamas April 1998

Witnessed the ceremonial end of the war in Southeast Asia , Pra Vihar, Dalgrek Escarpment, Cambodia, December 4 1999.

Visiting Scholar. The American Museum Of Natural History 2001

Discovered the source of ' Olmec Blue' jade, lost in Maya times and additional precolombian mines in the Sierra De Las

Minas of Guatemala , completing Harvard's Mesoamerican Jade Project.

Results published in Antiquity &Geology and reported on page 1of the New York Times & Discover ‘s Top 100 science stories of 2002 cf:http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/world/in-guatemala-a-rhode-island-size-jade-lode.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.html

Aided Professor Douglas Osheroff of Stanford and the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in examining the interior ballistics and cryogenic properties of materials; February-August 2003

2005-8 Research on energetic materials in comets in connection with the NASA Deep Impact Experiment.2009-present Research on water albedo enhancement using microbubbles

2009 Appointed Fellow of the Department of Physics , Harvard University

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Knowing The Unknowns Earth’s Future in press 2013Nuclear winter was and is debatable Nature 7 July 2011

Bright water: hydrosols, water conservation & climate change Climatic Change April 2011

‘The Next Top Model Foreign Affairs July 2009

A Brief History of the end of time EOS May 22 2008

Should oceanographers pump Iron ? Science May 12 2008 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/318/5855/1368.summary/reply#sci_el_10731Xenomict energy storage in cold materials in spacewith John Raymond, & Jochen Kissel Naturwissenschaften 4-2006

Crystal : Ever evolving and expanding in scope...............................Nature June 26 2003

High-pressure, metasomatic rocks along the Motagua Fault Zonewith G.E. Harlow et al. Ofioliti.... 2003

Olmec Blue and Formative Jade Sources: new discoveries in Guatemala(with G.E.Harlow,V.R. Sissons & K.A.Taube) ..........................................................................................................Antiquity…. Dec.2001

"Black Skies or Pale Fire?" ......................................................... ....Nature Mar 21 1991

"G-E Diamond Controversy." ..................................................... ....Science Jan 19 1991

The Curious Case of Carbon-12 .........................Materials Research 988 1991

Commotion Over Caribbean Impacts................................................Science....Nov23 1990 Cuban K-T Catastrophe (with Bruce Bohor). ……....Nature April 12 1990 Fusion in from the Cold. .......................Nature May 18 1989

Diamond Optics : The End of the Beginning. ..................... ..Proc. S. P. I .E . 1988

Shocked Quartz Grains at the K-T Boundary: not volcanic or atmospherically transported ........................................................................................ ...Naturwissenschaften June 1988

Isotopic Enhancement of Thermal Conductivity and Damage Threshold in Diamond ...................................................... ...MIT-ONR-SDIO Diamond Workshop . Feb 1987

Siberian Fire as Nuclear Winter Guide. .........................Nature. Sept 18 1986

More on Nuclear Winter ................................................... .Nature 23 May 1985

Diamond as a High-Power Laser Window(with D.H. Douglas-Hamilton & E.Hoag)...... J. Optical Society of America April 1974

EDITORIALS, OP-EDS & CORRESPONDENCE

Rockets on Lampedusa TLS 2 August 2013

What were they doing there? London Review of Books 23 Feb 2012

“Nullius In Verba” European Wall Street Journal Nov.3 2006 http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/05/nullius_in_verb.html

“A Snowball Under the Sun” The Wall Street Journal March 14 2006

“Congressional Math" The Wall Street Journal March 5 2005

Vulcan's Throne"...............................................The Wall Street Journal . .Oct. 8, 2004

"Too Strong Is Never Wrong".............. .. .The Wall Street Journal Aug 28 2003 "Doom At 8 Cents A Pound''................. .The New York Times May 16 1995 "Nuclear Ubiquity," .......................The Washington Post Jan 5 1992

"Hell in a Small Place'' ....Nature............... Apr 11 1991"Cut America's Cup Rules to the Waterline" ............................................................................The New York Times Jan 7 1988

"The Melting of Nuclear Winter,"........The Wall Street Journal Nov 5 1986 CONGRESSIONAL & PARLIAMENTARY TESTIMONY

Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on The Comprehensive Antiterrorism Act of 1995 ................................................... .The Congressional Record July 15 1995

Question TimeThe House Of Commons: Kuwait Oil Fires The PM & Hon. Tam Dayell , M.P......... ......Hansard......... . 15 March 1991

"In from the Cold"..............................................The Congressional Record April 20 1987 ESSAYS & COMMENTARY‘Nuclear winter debate warms up’ Nature 23 June 2011

‘The next Top Model Foreign Affairs July-August 2009

‘ A Brief History of the End of Time ……… … …Eos May 26, 2008

"Weaker Than We Think".... . ... ...The American Conservative Dec. 6, 2004 http://www.amconmag.com/2004_12_06/article.html" Rooms and Borders"........................... ..The NationalInterest....... .Summer 2003

"Interesting Times�..... Harvard University Center for International Affairs ............................. ........... ...Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.......... .....April 1993

"An Exchange on Proliferation."............. ...............The National Interest... Spring 1992

"Black Skies or Pale Fire?" ............ .... ..Nature......... Mar 21 1991

"G-E Diamond Controversy." ...................................................................................... ..........Science... Jan 19 1991

"Five Minutes Past Midnight.".................... ... The National Interest ...Winter 1991

“Cool Diamonds v.985 pp.1194-1195 Science Nov. 1990 "A War Against Fire." ................................................The National Interest Summer 1990

"Coca Coda "... with David Jones........................................ .. Nature.........15 June 1989

"Lost in Translation." .......................The National Interest Summer 1988

Nuclear Winter Debate …………………………… ….Science , Feb. 1987

"Nuclear Winter Controversy" ........................................................................................... ....Science........... Jan.5 1987

"In from the Cold'' ...................................................................................The National Interest Fall 1986

"Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe" ............Foreign Affairs....... Spring 1984

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONSBright Water; hydrosols, water conservation & climate change Climatic Change April 2011

Xenomict energy storage in cold materials in spacewith John Raymond, & Jochen Kissel Naturwissenschaften March 2006

High-pressure, metasomatic rocks along the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemalawith G.E. Harlow et al. Ofioliti.... 2003

Crystal : Ever evolving and expanding in scope...............................Nature June 26 2003

Olmec Blue and Formative Jade Sources: new discoveries in Guatemala(with G.E.Harlow,V.R. Sissons & K.A.Taube) ..........................................................................................................Antiquity…. Dec.2001

"Black Skies or Pale Fire?" ......................................................... ....Nature Mar 21 1991

"G-E Diamond Controversy." ..................................................... ....Science Jan 19 1991

The Curious Case of Carbon-12 .........................Materials Research 988 1991

Commotion Over Caribbean Impacts................................................Science....Nov23 1990 Cuban K-T Catastrophe (with Bruce Bohor). ……....Nature April 12 1990 Fusion in from the Cold. .......................Nature May 18 1989

Diamond Optics : The End of the Beginning. ..................... ..Proc. S. P. I .E . 1988

Shocked Quartz Grains at the K-T Boundary: not volcanic or atmospherically transported ........................................................................................ ...Naturwissenschaften June 1988

Isotopic Enhancement of Thermal Conductivity and Damage Threshold in Diamond ...................................................... ...MIT-ONR-SDIO Diamond Workshop . Feb 1987

Siberian Fire as Nuclear Winter Guide. .........................Nature. Sept 18 1986

More on Nuclear Winter ................................................... .Nature 23 May 1985

Diamond as a High-Power Laser Window(with D.H. Douglas-Hamilton & E.Hoag)...... J. Optical Society of America April 1974

BOOK CHAPTERSThe Sourcing of Jade in Central AmericaOlmec Art At Dunbarton Oaks Trustees For Harvard University..................Washington.........2004High Pressure in the MSZ and JadeititesInternational Geochemical Correlation Project ..Paris......... 2002World Politics 1998 -1999 (with Tom Clancy)McGraw Hill............................................................New York......1999 The War Theory Course Book Air Command & Staff College Press..........Washington .......1998 Five Minutes Past MidnightDoubleday ...........................................................New York....... 1992After ArmageddonJ.E. Pournelle, Ed..Tor Books........................... NewYork.......1990 Reflections on Nuclear WinterPergamon........................................................ .......Geneva ........1985 Science and the Needs of the National StockpileStrategic Metals In Perspective Pergamon Brasey's.......Cambridge.....1979

BOOK REVIEWS : “Iran’s Orher Book The New Criterion November 2007The Trouble With Physics The Wall Street Journal December 2 2006"The Longest Wave"............... The Wall Street Journal.. .. December31..2004"A World Transformed"...........The Wall Street Journal........... August 8 ..2003"Dark Sun ''................................The Wall Street Journal ......... August 14 1995"Heisenberg's War,"......................National Review ................. May 24 1993"A Bomb for Babylon,".............European Wall Street Journal...... April 5 1992"Spirits of the Air,".........................National Review....................... April 20 1990

COLUMNS"The Last Wave"...........................................TCS.....January ..13, 2005"Send It" ....................................................... TCS...December 21,2004"What If It Ended At The Beginning?".......TCS...December 13,2004"Armor and the Man".....................................TCS....October 25, 2004"Terrorism In Ship Shape"..........................TCS.....August 6, ...2004"The Catastrophic Jumping Frog"..............TCS........May 29....2004"Pumping Iron"..............................................TCS ... April 28, .... 2004

"London Calling"..........................................TCS November 21, 2003"Exit Strategy"................................................TCSNovember 19 2003"The Prodigal Sun"......................................TCS November 6 , 2003"Rumble in the Jungle".................................TCS October 15 2003 "Twin Peaks"....................................................TCS October 9 2003'Pilgrim's Progress"........................................TCS October1 2003"They ALSOS Served".......................................TCS..July 21.2003"Pandora's Cornucopia"..................................TCS...July 2, 2003"Cold Burn"........................................................TCS...June 13,2003"Remember the Alamaut"...............................TCS.. June 5,2003"The Frog of War"..................................... .......TCS... May27..2003"The Eyes have It".............................................TCS...May 19..2003"Germs of Truth" ..............................................TCS...May 8...2003"Black Hydrogen?"...........................................TCS...May 1...2003

" Paint The Town White"...............................ForbesAug.22 2000''Making the World Safe for Cigarettes"..... Forbes Sept 81997 ''Whale Bashing''...........................................Forbes May 19 1997''An Incomplete Obituary"..............................Forbes Feb 10 1997 ''Repealing the Laws of Physics"...............Forbes Dec 161996 ''Ushering in the Millennium".......................Earth February 1996

TCS COLUMNS LINK :http://www.tcsdaily.com/Authors.aspx?id=236

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS

Scientists alarmed by rapidly shrinking Arctic ice cap Physics Today Feb 2013Soft Geoengineering Environment Sept. 2012The Climate Fixers The New Yorker May 14, 2012Jaded................................................................. .....Forbes ...... ..Dec 22 2003Jaded Yet ?................................................... .Forbes Collector.... ... Nov 2003Foam and Cold Are Called a Dangerous Mix.....The New York Times .. Feb 8 2003Rare Jade:. The Year In Science 2002: .. . Discover .... ...January, 2003Guatemala's Olmec Jade ........Geotimes........ ..August 2002

Scientists Solve Jade Source Mystery ...........Associated Press ....June 5 2002Found In Guatemala, a Mother Lode of Jade.....The New York Times.. . May 22 2002 BBC + AP +Times coverage >50 million in 31 languagesPlutonium hatte ein Tarnhelm ....Der Spiegel... .... ...July 2 1994"Special Chemistry" ........The New Republic.. .. March 2 1993"Grummelin im Bauch" ...........Der Spiegel..... October 26 1992"Diamond in the Presolar Nebula" ......Sky and Telescope..... . Sept 1992 "View from the Top" .........Harvard Magazine Sept. 1992 Scholar, Company battle

over Patent Harvard Crimson 24 April 1992 http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1992/4/24/scholar-company-battle-over-patent-pa/Gem of an Idea .........................................Newsweek ...Feb 23 1992Cleaning Up With a Bang.......................Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. .Jan 1992"Black Mischief" ........National Review. .... Feb.25 1991Commotion Over Caribbean Impacts.............................Science ... .....Nov23 1990Dinosaur's Death Blow in the Caribbean Sea? ..Science...... .... May 18 1990"The Cup That Ran Amok"..........................The American Spectator. ..June 1989

Nuclear Winter Comes In From The Cold........... .....The Scientist.. .May 1 1989"Il Rhinocero e 'Licorno � .........Il Tempo........... Dec.22 1984What Supports Apollo? ........................Analog............. January 1970

LETTERSRockets on Lampedusa TLS August 2 2013 What were they doing there? London Review ofBooks 23 February 2012“ The Next Top Model ? Foreign Affairs July-August 2009"Real Panache" London Review of Books ..October 19 2006"On First Shooting Partridge"... ..London Review of Books... .March 23 2006"Life Is Cheap".............................................. .The Economist....................July 14 2005"Uncertain Forecast". ...Environmental Science & Technology .Dec 19 2005"Dark Side Of Solar Power" Physics Today ............ ....April 2005"Tempest In A Porcelain Teapot American Scientist. ...January 2005"What Can The Matter Be?" Chemical & Engineering News May 17 2004"Hitchens On Proust" The Atlantic .................April 2004"Leaden prose " The Economist ............. 17 Jan. 2004"The Wind's Long Shadow" Orion...... . .......January 2004

"Whale On The Table" The New Times...... 18 Sept 2003

"That's How They Do It" London Review Of Books....21 August 2003"A Farewell to Arms" The American Conservative ...19 May 2003"The Report of Our Extinction" The Skeptical Inquirer..... .... May 2003 "Mutant Corn Threatens' The Nation...................27 Jan 2003"The Second Ballot' The New York Times ..........29 Oct 2002"Surrender" London Review of Books .....5 Sept 2002'' Prince of Ashanti'' New York Times BookReview .31 Jan 2000 " Destroyer of Worlds" New York Review of Books ..8 April 1999''The Secret of Porcelain'' The T L S ...... ......... .April 2 1998 ''Dangers of Speed'' London Review ofBooks ...Nov 13 1997''Undermined by Uranium�s Ubiquity'' The Nation ........Dec23 1996''Depleted Uranium'' The New York Times .........June14 1996�No Uranium Peril in Iraqi Desert" New York Times...............Feb 9 1993"To Light the World," The New York Times ....... ...Jan 5 1993''Nuclear Ubiquity'' The Washington Post ..... ...Jan 11 1992"Germs of the Idea" The New York Times ..........Mar 5 1990"Post-Nuclear Weather" Technology Review .... ..... . .July 1989"A Geneticist in Russia" New York Times Book Review..Nov 15 1987"A.P.S. Study The Wall Street Journal . ...July 7 1987

"Fire & Ice" National Review.... .....Jan 23 1987"Platinum: New Sources Found" The New York Times........ ..Aug.31 1986"More on nuclear winter" Nature................. .... 23 May 1985

TELEVISION House Judiciary Committee Hearings .CSPAN ..... ..June 12 1995 Firing Line..... PBS..... February... 1994 Firing Line..... PBS....... January.. 1994 Firing Line..... PBS.... December 1993 60 Minutes...... CBS........ May 30. 1993 60 Minutes...... CBS......... April..... 1992 Good Morning America... ..NBC......... July 1967 RADIO John Batchelor Show ABC.. .March 16 2006John Batchelor Show ABC.. .Nov 26 2005World Service Morning News . .......BBC.... 23 rd May 2002 The Whitehouse Effect ..........NPR.. August 11 2000To The Best Of Our Knowledge ... ..NPR...... April..... 1996

For That Matter ............IPR. November. 1995 Whats' New ...........CBC..February... 1991 All Things Considered ..........NPR... March .... 1987 Quirks and Quarks. ...........CBC...February. 1987

ADVOCATIONS & INTERESTSAAAS, Archaeology of Materials, Committee for the Opera at Syon, Editorial Review Board International Security Quarterly, Harvard Philosophy Table , Materials Research Society,Mineralogy, Oriental Art ,Pacific Club , Philosophy of Language, Pyrotechnics, Starbright FoundationSPORTS Angling, body surfing, croquet,, fencing, sailing , SCUBA, shooting, skiing TRAVEL & CORRESPONDENCE Biafra, Cambodia, Colombia ,Cyprus,Guatemala ,Guinea Bissau, New Caledonia , Pakistan ,Sao Tome' Vanuatu

" Nobody ever contemplated that the Soviet military-industrial complex would end up in Chapter 11. It's the yard sale at the end of history. " ...... ...THE NEW YORK TIMES QUOTATION OF THE DAY, 11-5-1991