Jay Keyworth AKA George A. Keyworth II Born: c. 1939 Birthplace: Boston, MA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Physicist, Government Nationality: United States Executive summary: Science advisor to Reagan Directed underground nuclear tests while at Los Alamos.
On the Strategic Defense Initiative, Keyworth states that "the whole argument for so-called third-generation nuclear weapons whose radiated energy could be focused into a directed-energy weapon, and used, for instance, as an SDI entity, was a pack of lies, unadulterated lies."[1]
Outed as the source of press leaks describing the HP board's declining opinion of CEO Carly Fiorina, which led to the resignations of Keyworth and Tom Perkins from the board. [1] Interviewed by Daniel S. Greenburg, Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion, p. 292.
High School: Deerfield Academy University: BS Physics, Yale University (1963) University: PhD Nuclear Physics, Duke University (1968)
Progress and Freedom Foundation Chairman Keyworth Company Chairman (1986-)
White House Staff Science Advisor, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1981-86) Los Alamos National Laboratory Director, Physics Division (-1981) Los Alamos National Laboratory (1968-82) Member of the Board of General Atomics
Member of the Board of Green Plug (as Chairman)
Member of the Board of Hewlett-Packard (1986-2006)
American Association for the Advancement of Science American Physical Society Center for Security Policy Hudson Institute
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