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Laura Rockwood

Laura Rockwood is executive director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. In November 2013, she retired from the International Atomic Energy Agency as the Section Head for Non-Proliferation and Policy Making in the Office of Legal Affairs, where she had served since 1985.


Articles by Laura Rockwood

UN/IAEA inspectors examine suspect equipment in Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War. Photo Credit: IAEA Action Team

How the IAEA verifies if a country’s nuclear program is peaceful or not: The legal basis

By Laura Rockwood | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons