“I use ‘disruptive’ in both its good and bad connotations. Disruptive scientific and technological progress is not to me inherently good or inherently evil. But its arc is for us to shape. Technology’s progress is furthermore in my judgment unstoppable. But it is quite incorrect that it unfolds inexorably according to its own internal logic and the laws of nature.”
Biography
Viet Phuong Nguyen is a postdoctoral fellow with the Belfer Center's International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom, where he also was a pre-doctoral fellow from 2016–2017. Phuong received his B.Sc. in nuclear physics from the Vietnam National University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His research examines the perception of nuclear weapons in non-nuclear-weapon states and the development of nuclear energy in newcomer countries.
Last Updated: Nov 21, 2018, 11:03pmAwards
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Email: viet_phuong_nguyen@hks.harvard.edu
Mailing Address:
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