Mountbatten Centre for International Studies

These include representing the UK on the UN Secretary-General's Study Group on Conventional Disarmament 1982-4; membership of the UK delegation to the UNESCO General Conference 1985; membership of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board for Disarmament Matters 1992-8; co-founder and Programme Director of the Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPNN) (1987-2002); advisor to the UK delegation to NPT Preparatory Committee Sessions and Review Conferences (1999-present). He is a member of the Strategy Group of the Monterey Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and has been involved in the launch of the IAEA's new initiative to rethink nuclear fuel cycle issues. He will serve as a member of The Royal Society's Group on Scientific Aspects of International Security for a three-year term from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2010. He was a member of the UK Royal Society working group which published a study on the Future Management of Separated Plutonium in the UK in September 2007 and is a principal researcher in a consortium tasked from 2008 onwards by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to produce an integrated Approach to a Sustainability Assessment of Nuclear Power. Professor Simpson was awarded the OBE in 1999 for services to nuclear non-proliferation.

Contact:
E-mail: mcis@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2522

Publications. Professor Simpson has published extensively on nuclear non-proliferation, and on the military use of nuclear energy in Britain. His publications include:

The UK and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism: A Case Study of Organisational Responses. In Paul Wilkinson (ed), Homeland Security in the UK - Future Preparedness for Terroist Attack since 9/11. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group), 2007).
"The United Kingdom and the Nuclear Future" in The Nonproliferation Review (London: Routledge for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies - Monterey Institute of International Studies, July 2007, Vol. 14.2).
Co-editor with Ian R. Kenyon of Deterrence and the New Security Envionment (London: Routledge 2006).
"UK Perspectives on WMD Proliferation, Arms Control, Disarmament and WMD use by non-state actors" in W.P.S. Sidhu and R.Thakur (eds), Arms Control after Iraq (Tokyo: UN University Press, 2006).
"Iran's Nuclear Capability and Potential to Develop Atomic Weapons" in Iran's Nuclear Program: Realities and Repercussions, (Abhu Dhabi: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2006).
"Finding Middle Ground in UN and NPT Debates over Disarmament and Non-Proliferation" in Policy Briefs: Is Anything Doable in the Field of Nuclear Disarmament? (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI): 2006).
'The Nuclear Landscape in 2004 - Past, Present and Future': Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMBC) Paper 3 (web-based).
(with Darryl Howlett) in 2005. Nuclear non-proliferation - how to ensure an effective compliance mechanism. In Burkard Schmitt (Ed.), Effective non-proliferation: The European Union and the 2005 NPT Review Conference (Chaillot Paper No 77pp. 9-26). Paris: ISS.
(with Jenny Nielsen) in 2005. The 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: Mission Impossible? The Nonproliferation Review , Volume 12, Number 2, 1-23.
Present at the creation: Nuclear Weapon Policies and Nuclear Disarmament Policies of the United Kingdom . Nuclear Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century, (pp. 108-127) in 2004. Hiroshima , Japan : Hiroshima Peace Institute.
'The nuclear non-proliferation regime: back to the future?', UNIDIR Disarmament Forum, 2004 No.1.
(with Tanya Ogilvie-White), 'The NPT and Its 2003 PrepCom Session: A Regime in Need of
Intensive Care', The Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2003: Vol 10:1.
(with Darryl Howlett, Tanya Ogilvie-White and Emily Taylor) 'Nuclear Weapons Policy at the
Crossroads' (London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2000).
(with Emily Bailey, Ben Cole and Darryl Howlett), 'Surveying the Nuclear Future: Which way from Here?' Contemporary Security Policy, Vol 20.1, April 1999.
(with Darryl Howlett) 'Nuclear Proliferation: The Evolving Policy Debate', Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 20.3, December 1999.
(ed with Darryl Howlett) 'The Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty' (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995).
(ed)'Nuclear Non-Proliferation: An Agenda for the 1990s' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
'The Independent Nuclear State: The United States, Britain and the Military Atom', (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983 & 2nd edition, 1986).