Frank Charles Barnaby^[1] (27 September 1927 – 1 August 2020)^[2] was an English nuclear physicist who served as the Nuclear Issues Consultant to the Oxford Research Group, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology. He was based in the United Kingdom.^[3]

He was born in Andover, Hampshire, and was educated at Andover Grammar School and the University of London.^[2]

Barnaby trained as a nuclear physicist and worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, between 1951 and 1957. He was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council (UK) when a university lecturer at University College London (1957–1967).

Barnaby was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 1971 to 1981. In 1981, Barnaby became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.^[4] He was a professor at the VU University Amsterdam 1981–85, and awarded the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the University of Minnesota in 1985.^[1] He also served as the Executive Secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.^[5]

He was married and has a son and a daughter.^[2]

He died on 1 August 2020 at the age of 92.^[6]

Works

• The nuclear future (Fabian Society, 1969)
• Man and the Atom (Minerva, 1971)
• Nuclear proliferation and the South African threat (1977)
• Future Warfare (Michael Joseph, 1986)
• Star Wars (Fourth Estate, 1987)
• The Automated Battlefield (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987)
• The Invisible Bomb (Tauris, 1989)
• The Gaia Peace Atlas (Pan, 1989)
• A Handbook of Verification Procedures (editor - Palgrave Macmillan, 1990)
• The Role and Control of Military Force in the 1990s (1992)
• How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (Granta, 2003) ISBN 978-1862076242
• The Future of Terror (Granta, 2007) ISBN 978-1862078710
• Prospects for Peace (Pergamon, 2013) ISBN 978-1483234533
• How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s (Routledge, 2016) ISBN 978-1138991774