Signatories

Dr. Evgeny Velikhov is an accomplished Russian scientist and is the current president of the national research center, the Kurchatov Institute. He is an important scientist in the field of plasma and thermonuclear controlled fusion. Since the mid-1970s, he has been the head of scientific studies on thermonuclear controlled fusion in the USSR and Russia. From 1977 to 1996, Dr. Velikhov served as Vice-President of the Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 1986 he oversaw the cleanup of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Dr. Velikhov has also been a principal arms control negotiator, having major impact on the development of American-Russian nuclear treaties in the 1980s and 1990s.