R. Scott Kemp, Ph.D.
rskempprinceton.edu
rskmit.edu

Assistant Professor
Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT

Research Affiliate
Program on Science and Global Security
Princeton University

Program Affiliate
Project on Managing the Atom
Harvard University

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Scott Kemp is Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. His research combines physics, engineering, and the history of science to draw more clearly the limits and policy options for achieving international security under technical constraints. He is an expert on gas-centrifuge and laser enrichment, and has also worked on space arms control, cyber security, and methods for detecting covert nuclear-weapon programs.

From 2010-2011, Kemp served as science advisor in the State Department's Office of the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control. He is also a current member of the American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs.

R. Scott Kemp's Curriculum Vitae

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS   [all publications]

Cyber
Cyber Weapons: Bold steps in a digital darkness? 
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 7 June 2012.

Worm Holes - Virus Attacks Iran's Enrichment Operations 
Jane's Intelligence Review, 15 Sept. 2011.

Nuclear
The End of Manhattan: How the Gas Centrifuge Changed the Quest for Nuclear Weapons 
Technology and Culture, Vol 53, No 2. (April 2012).

Gas Centrifuge Theory and Development: A Review of U.S. Programs 
Science and Global Security, Vol 17, No 1. (2009).

A performance estimate for the detection of undeclared nuclear-fuel reprocessing by atmospheric 85Kr 
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Vol 99, No 8. (Aug. 2008).

Space
Space Weapons: Crossing the U.S. Rubicon 
International Security, Vol 29, No 2. (Fall 2004).

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Last updated: July 2012