Ze`ev Wolfson
Ze`ev Wolfson was born in 1944 in the
USSR. He received a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Policy from Moscow
State University in 1978. The work, The Destruction of Nature in
the Soviet Union (under the pseudonym Boris Komarov) was
published in 1979 in the West in eight editions and in seven
languages. The book was awarded the Gambrinus European Award (Italy)
for “Best Book on Ecology” in 1983. After the Chernobyl disaster he
focused his interests on nuclear technology and chemical and
biological weapons in the former Soviet Union states and Russia, and
on the risk of proliferation of dangerous technologies to the Middle
East countries.
In recent years, Z.W. has written numerous
papers on these topics which have been published in various
international journals and by the Ariel Center for Policy Research
(ACPR) in Nativ and as policy papers. Since 1987, he
has been affiliated with the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian
and Eastern European Research (of the Hebrew University) as a
researcher and editor of the CIS Environmental and Disarmament
Yearbook.
