Washington Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Richard L. Wagner, Jr. is a physicist who has worked in nuclear weapon and weapon-system design, missile defense, defenses against nuclear terrorism, nuclear energy, non-proliferation, WMD threat reduction and other matters at the interface between science/technology and national security strategy. He was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1963-1981, where he was Deputy Director. Wagner was Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy from 1981-1986, a position in which he had oversight of the U.S. nuclear weapon program as well as chemical- and biological-defense matters. He has been affiliated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1996. Wagner has been a member of the Defense Science Board, DoD's Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, and the Strategic Advisory Group of the United States Strategic Command. He chaired NATO's Senior Level Weapon Protection Group, the Advisory Board of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Independent Review Group of the United States Pacific Command.
