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Beason named ADTR associate director

Doug Beason is the new associate director for Threat Reduction (ADTR).

Beason joined the Lab in 2001 after a long career in the U.S. Air Force. His three assignments at the Air Force Weapons Lab/Phillips Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque included performing research on nuclear effects, plasma physics, and later as commander of the Phillips site from which he retired as colonel.

Beason has a doctoral degree in physics from the University of New Mexico based in part on work done at Los Alamos on simulating explosive iodine lasers. He also has a bachelor's in physics and mathematics from the United States Air Force Academy, a master's in physics from the University of New Mexico, and a master's in national resource strategy from the National Defense University.

In two assignments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Beason worked on peer review design analysis of the W76, and with his collaborators, developed a closed solution to relativistic Compton scattering for radiation transport codes that are still used today; the latter led to his election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Beason also served on the White House staff in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and taught as an associate professor of physics at the Air Force Academy.

Beason has served at Los Alamos as deputy associate director for Threat Reduction, and International, Space and Response (ISR) Division leader. In his new post in ADTR, he will oversee the execution and development of the Los Alamos programs to eliminate threats from weapons of mass destruction and to defeat new and emerging threats.

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