Frank Barnaby

Charles Frank Barnaby (27 September 1927 – 1 August 2020) 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.

He was born in Andover, Hampshire, and was educated at Andover Grammar School and the University of London. 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. In 1991, he received the prize "Archivio Disarmo - Golden Doves for Peace" from IRIAD.

He was married and has a son and a daughter.

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) The Future of Terror (Granta, 2007) Prospects for Peace (Pergamon, 2013) How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s (Routledge, 2016)