Butt, Yousaf
Biography
Dr. Yousaf Butt is a scientific consultant to the Federation of American Scientists and a physicist in the High-Energy Astrophysics Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
He was on the instrument operations team responsible for the main focal plane instrument aboard NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory from 1999-2004. Previously, he has been a fellow in the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the National Academy of Sciences and a research fellow in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
He has authored numerous papers on technical aspects of national and global security issues as well as on astrophysics and nuclear physics.
He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Yale University and a dual B.S. in mechanical engineering and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Publications:
2012 May 7, The National Interest: "Debunking the Missile Defense Myth"
2012 March 25, Washington Post: "A New Plan for Iran: Lift Sanctions, Increase Monitoring"
2012 January 19, Foreign Policy: "Stop the Madness"
2011 December 18, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "How the Reset Was Upset"
2011 December 12, New York Times: "Among Gingrich's Passions, a Doomsday Vision"
2011 December 5, Financial Times: "Flawed U.S. Missile Defence Plan Should be Abandoned"
2011 November 30, Christian Science Monitor: "A 'New START' to an Arms Race Between the U.S. and Russia?"
2011 September, FAS Special Report #1: Upsetting the Reset: The Technical Basis of Russian Concern Over NATO Missile Defense
2011 September 20, International Herald Tribune: The Delusion of Missile Defense
2011 August 16, Asia TImes: Spinning Iran's Centrifuges
2011 June 30, Washington Post - Letter to the Editor: A Good Start for Pentagon Cuts: Missile Defense
2011 June 10, Foreign Policy: Billions for Missile Defense, Not a Dime for Common Sense
2011 June 8, Politico: Why Russia's Anti-Missile Defense
In the News:
2011 June 14, Russian Television (RT): NATO Missile Defense Shield Not Effective
