Government Clearance Level, Status
Classified, Inactive

Publications & Commentary
Dr. Slakey’s scientific publications have received more than 500 citations.  He has also written widely on science policy issues, publishing more than fifty articles for the popular press including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Scientific American.

Recent technical publications include:
“Responding to a Nuclear 9/11” (in press)
“The Nuclear Weapons Production Complex and the Reliable Replacement Warhead”
“The United States Nuclear Weapons Program”
“Nuclear Power: Securing Benefits, Limiting Risk”
“The Modern Pit Facility”
“The Hydrogen Initiative”

Distinctions
More than 100 invited talks including to US Strategic Command, NASA, and AAAS
Lemelson Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution
MacArthur Scholar
Fellow, American Physical Society
Participant in White House ceremony with President Bush
Participant in White House Nuclear Test Ban event with President Clinton
Invited Speaker, Library of Congress
NATO Assistantship to the Advanced Study Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland
NATO Assistantship to the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Jerusalem
APS “Centennial Speaker”
NSF Summer Scholarship, Utah State University, Logan
Fellow, Explorers Club
Olympic Torch Carrier from steps of the US Capitol, 2002 Olympic Games
28^th American to summit Mt. Everest
Summited the highest mountain on every continent

Advisory Positions, current and recent
Advisory Board, Reviews of Policy Research
Nuclear Weapons Complex Assessment Committee, AAAS
Science Consultant, The National Geographic
Council Member, The Gerson Lehrman Group
Science Advisor, The Creative Coalition
Judge, Westinghouse & AAAS Science Journalism Awards
Advisory Panel on Nuclear Terrorism, Council on Foreign Relations
Advisory Panel on Lab Improvement, National Science Foundation
Advisory Board, The Triple Helix

Non-Academic Interests
Dr. Slakey became the 28^th American to summit Mt. Everest in an unguided expedition that hauled 700 spent oxygen bottles and a half-ton of trash off the mountain.  After a climb in the jungles of Indonesia, he completed his ascents of the highest mountain on every continent.  He has hitchhiked across Central Asia, lived with Masai in East Africa, scaled the granite face of El Cap, and skied in Antarctica.  He appeared in the National Geographic documentary, Beyond the Summit, narrated by Sharon Stone and has written for numerous publication about his expeditions.  In recognition of his climbing, as part of the 2002 Olympic Games, he carried the Olympic torch from the steps of the US Capitol.