George Malcolm Moore
George Malcolm Moore died on June 23, 2026.
Moore joined the Middlebury Institute for International Studies's Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) as a scientist in residence in 2012 following a career with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the U.S. Navy, and a practice in aviation and energy law.
After graduation from Annapolis, Moore served as a naval officer until he resigned from the Navy as a lieutenant commander. He then worked at LLNL in various assignments in areas relating to nuclear physics, nuclear effects and radiation detection and measurement. He left LLNL and served as an in-house counsel at Northern California’s utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric, until he entered private practice with the San Francisco firm of Kenney & Markowitz, where he specialized in litigation in the areas of aviation, recreational boating, product liability, intellectual property and commercial law.
Moore left Kenney & Markowitz in 2002 to return to LLNL, where he worked in the Nuclear Assessment (NAP) program. He left LLNL in mid-2007 to join the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, where he worked as a senior analyst in the Office of Nuclear Security. He worked with the Illicit Trafficking Database (ITDB) and served as scientific secretary for the Director General’s Advisory Group on Nuclear Security. He also served as scientific secretary for the development of the agency’s Fundamentals of Nuclear Security document.
After his service at the IAEA, in 2012, Moore joined the CNS at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). As an adjunct professor and a scientist-in-residence at MIIS CNS, Moore focused on teaching and publishing on nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security and drone technology. During his more than 12 years at MIIS CNS until his retirement in 2025, Moore worked closely with LLNL to help facilitate the LLNL-MIIS International Nuclear Safeguards course.
Moore was a former Fulbright Scholar (Netherlands) and a former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Special Fellow. He was a licensed professional engineer (nuclear) in California and was formerly an AEC-licensed research reactor operator. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and in a number of federal circuit and district courts across the United States.
Throughout his career, Moore had authored a number of technical papers and legal articles and had been a speaker at various meetings and training activities. He had been an adjunct faculty member at Golden Gate University School of Law where he taught aviation law, and he was also an adjunct faculty member of Golden Gate’s management program, where he taught statistics and quantitative analysis for business decision making. He was a retired captain in the U. S. Naval Reserve.
