Deterrence Among Three to Twelve Nuclear Powers: Fundamental Instability and Mitigation Strategy

Biography: Dr. Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Phd, D.Pol.Sc., is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at George Mason University and Courtesy Faculty Affiliate at Florida International University in Miami. He specializes in applied mathematical and computational methods in areas of complex systems, strategy, risk analysis, and international security. At GMU he founded and directed the first interdisciplinary PhD program in Computational Social Science, the first Department of Computational Social Science, and the Center for Social Complexity. He is past president of the Computational Social Science Society, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Senior Science Adviser to the Director of the State Department’s Office of Geographic and Global Issues at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He has served in senior science advisory capacities for the ODNI, DOD/OSD, DOE/LANL, and other USG agencies. Dr. Cioffi is author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed publications and eight books, published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer Verlag, and Florence University Press, among others. His research has been funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, NATO Science Committee, and international agencies.