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Edwin S. Lyman

A physicist, Lyman is a senior staff scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington. His expertise is in nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism prevention. Previously, he served as president of the Nuclear Control Institute. In 2004, he authored Chernobyl-on-the-Hudson? an analysis of the consequences of a terrorist attack on the Indian Point nuclear power plant located near New York City.