Kosta Tsipis

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Kosta M. Tsipis (born February 12, 1934 in Athens ) is a Greek-American physicist and armaments expert .

Tsipis came to the United States in 1954 and studied electrical engineering and physics at Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and a master's degree in 1960, and received his doctorate in 1966 from Columbia University with a dissertation in high energy physics. He was then a post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was an assistant professor from 1968 to 1971 and a research fellow in biophysics from 1971 to 1973. From 1973 he was at the Center for International Studies and founded the Science & Technology for International Security program at MIT in 1977 , of which he was director until 2001. He was a Principal Research Scientist at MIT.

In 2005 he became Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis University .

Since the 1970s, he has been involved in numerous studies and publications on new weapon systems and their evaluation (such as laser and particle beam weapons, which was topical in the discussions about Ronald Reagan's SDI program in the 1980s , and various missile systems such as cruise missiles ), the effects of nuclear explosions and the effects of nuclear wars, defense strategies and disarmament issues, and issues relating to the monitoring of nuclear disarmament.

From 1973 to 1977 he was a senior consultant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He was an advisor to the Greek government and American government agencies on disarmament issues.

In 1984 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Arsenal: understanding weapons in the nuclear age, Simon and Schuster 1983
  • Editor and David Hafemeister, P. Janeway: Arms control verification: the technologies that make it possible, Pergamon-Brassey`s Intern. Defense Publ. 1986
  • Kosta Tsipis on the Arms Race, University Press of America 1987
  • New Technologies, Defense Policy and Arms Control, Ballinger Pub. 1989
  • Tactical and Strategic Antisubmarine Warfare, SIPRI Monograph, MIT Press 1975
  • The Accuracy of Strategic Missiles, Scientific American, July 1975
  • Cruise Missiles, Scientific American, February 1977
  • with Bernard Feld : Land-Based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Scientific American, November 1979
  • Particle Beam Weapons, Scientific American, April 1979
  • Catastrophic Release of Radioactivity, Scientific American, April 1981
  • Laser Weapons, Scientific American, December 1981
  • with Matthew Bunn: The Uncertainties of a Preemptive Nuclear Attack, Scientific American, November 1983
  • with David Hafemeister , Joseph Romm: The Verification of Compliance with Arms-Control Agreements, Scientific American, March 1985
  • with Philip Morrison , Jerome Wiesner : The Future of American Defense, Scientific American, February 1994

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Tsipis, Kosta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsipis, Kosta M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens