Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute

Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute
66 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor
New York, New York 10011
212-229-5808 x4257
212-229-5579 fax

The Arms Trade Resource Center (ATRC) is an internationally recognized source of objective, independent analysis and information on issues of global weapons proliferation for journalists, policy makers, and the public at large. Project staff include Deputy Director Frida Berrigan and Senior Research Associate Michelle Ciarrocca. Among the project's services are ATRC Update, a regular e-mail update on breaking security issues (available for free by e-mailing Frida Berrigan).

William D. Hartung, Project Director

Areas of expertise: missile defense and nuclear weapons issues, with special emphasis on costs, contractors, and key constituencies impacted by missile defense and nuclear weapons spending; U.S. military strategy and spending priorities; and global weapons proliferation.

William D. Hartung is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School. His books and studies on security issues include: How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy? - A Quick and Dirty Guide To War Profiteering in the Bush Administration (Nation Books/Thunder's Mouth Press, forthcoming, January 2004); And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995); "Prevention, Not Preemption: Stopping the New Nuclear Danger," World Policy Journal Winter 2002/2003; Military Strategy, in John Feffer, editor Power Trip (Seven Stories Press, forthcoming, 2003), and About Face: The Role of the Arms Lobby in the Bush Administration's Radical Reversal of Two Decades of U.S. Nuclear Policy, World Policy Institute, May 2002. His articles on military spending, nuclear policy, and the arms trade have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Arms Control Today. He has been featured as an expert on NBC Nightly News, CBS 60 Minutes, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, the BBC, Fox News, and MSNBC, as well as on numerous national, regional and local radio programs.