Frank Charles Barnaby (27 September 1927 – 1 August 2020) was the Nuclear Issues Consultant to the

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, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology. He was based in the United Kingdom.Oxford Research Group: Staff and consultants
He was born in

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, and was educated at Andover Grammar School and the

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. Barnaby trained as a nuclear physicist and worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment,

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, between 1951 and 1957. He was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council (UK) when a university lecturer at

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(1957–1967). Barnaby was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 1971–1981. In 1981, Barnaby became a founding member of the

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. He was a professor at the

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1981–85, and awarded the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the

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in 1985. He has been the Executive Secretary of the

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. He was married and has a son and a daughter. He died on 1 August 2020 at the age of 92.

Works

*
The nuclear future
' (Fabian Society, 1969) *''Man and the Atom'' (Minerva, 1971) *''Nuclear proliferation and the South African threat'' (1977) *''Future Warfare'' (Michael Joseph, 1986) *''Star Wars'' (Fourth Estate, 1987) *''The Automated Battlefield'' (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987) *''The Invisible Bomb'' (Tauris, 1989) *''The Gaia Peace Atlas'' (Pan, 1989) *''A Handbook of Verification Procedures'' (editor - Palgrave Macmillan, 1990) *''The Role and Control of Military Force in the 1990s'' (1992) *''How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction '' (Granta, 2003) *''The Future of Terror'' (Granta, 2007) *''Prospects for Peace'' (Pergamon, 2013) *''How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s'' (Routledge, 2016)

References

External links

Parents of the Field of Peace and Conflict Studies: Frank BarnabyConsequences of a Nuclear RenaissanceToo Hot to Handle?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Power
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barnaby, Frank People associated with nuclear power British anti–nuclear weapons activists Academics of University College London University of Minnesota faculty Founding members of the World Cultural Council People from Andover, Hampshire 1927 births 2020 deaths