Edwin Lyman Biography

Edwin Lyman is an internationally recognized expert on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism as well as nuclear power safety and security. He is a member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management and has testified numerous times before Congress and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Since joining UCS in 2003 he has published articles in a number of journals and magazines including Science the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Global Security and Arms Control Today and he has been cited in thousands of news stories including articles in the Boston Globe Chicago Tribune Los Angeles Times New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post and USA Today and in segments on ABC CBS CNN C-SPAN MSNBC NBC NPR and PBS. Dr. Lyman also co-authored the critically acclaimed book Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (New Press) which was published in February 2014.
Before joining UCS Dr. Lyman was president of the Nuclear Control Institute a Washington D.C.-based organization focused on nuclear proliferation. From 1992 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (now the Science and Global Security Program). He earned a doctorate degree in physics from Cornell University in 1992.

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