Frank von Hippel
Frank von Hippel is an American theoretical physicist, frequent Bulletin contributor, and professor and co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
His research focuses on nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, nuclear power, and energy issues.
Hippel has served as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists and Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He has received numerous awards and honors including the American Physical Society’s Forum Award and the George F. Kennan Distinguished Peace Leadership Award.
Hippel is also a prolific writer who has published multiple books including Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare (2007) and Citizen Scientists: Collected Essays of Frank von Hippel (1991). He also serves on the National Advisory Board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Hippel's Bulletin contributions:
- Biden should end the launch-on-warning option
- Plutonium programs in East Asia and Idaho will challenge the Biden administration
- Bill Gates’ bad bet on plutonium-fueld reactors
- The United States would be more secure without new intercontinental ballistic missiles
- Biden can resure the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from industry capture
- South Korea’s risky quest to build nuclear-powered attack submarines
- Bruce Blair: Challenging the accidental nuclear war machine at every turn
- Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed
- Physicists mobilize to reduce the nuclear threat. Again.
- Steps back from the brink at the Strait of Hormuz
- Limits on ballistic missile defense—past and possibly future
- Forty years of impasse: The United States, Japan, and the plutonium problem
- Reprocessing policy and South Korea’s new government
- How many nuclear warheads does the United States need?
- Why the United States did not demostrate the Bomb’s power ahead of Hiroshima
- Banning the production of highly enriched uranium
- Subcritical experiments
- The radiological and psychological consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi accident
- Managing nuclear spent fuel: Policy lessons from a 10-country study
- From the Bulletin Archives: Containment of a reactor meltdown
- Second chances: Containment of a reactor meltdown
- From the Bulletin Archives: Containment of a reactor meltdown
- Second chances: Containment of a reactor meltdown
- It’s Time to Give Up on Breeder Reactors
- Dry-Cask Storage: How Germany Led the Way
- Where Fermi Stood
- Eyes in the Sky – Watching for Weapons Work
- Plutonium Disposal, the Third Way
- Help the Nuclear Cities, Help Ourselves
- After the Dust Settles