Lynn Eden is Senior Research Scholar (Emeritus), at Stanford University and an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University. Her Ph.D. is in sociology from the University of Michigan; she works at the intersections of history, sociology, and political science. From 1990 to 2016 Eden was a senior research scholar at the Center for International Security & Cooperation (CISAC), in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. From 2002 to 2016, she was also the associate director for research at CISAC. Eden has written on U.S politics, nuclear arms control, and U.S. foreign and military policy. Her first book, Crisis in Watertown, written when she was an undergraduate (University of Michigan Press, 1973), was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her book Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (Cornell University Press, 2004) won the American Sociological Association’s 2004 Robert K. Merton award for best book in science and technology studies. Eden also ghosted a book on the 1964 Klan murders of civil rights workers Schwerner, Cheney, and Goodman in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She has co-edited two books on U.S. military, arms control, and nuclear policy; along with articles, book reviews, etc. Using historical documents and personal interviews, Eden is currently writing about how U.S. military officers (nuclear “targeteers”) follow higher-level guidance to develop operational plans to “prevail” in nuclear war. In other words, how are good moral people able to plan the end of the world as we know it? Without denying the conceptual framework of deterrence, Eden argues that the answer lies in:• specific organizational routines;• abstractions based in physics, engineering, and materials science;• social psychological processes similar to (but not exactly) denial; and• jokes and humor.

Stephen Herzog is a Senior Researcher in Nuclear Arms Control at the Center for Security Studies of ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He co-chairs the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group, a MacArthur Foundation and Harvard Kennedy School initiative. Previously, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Project on Managing the Atom. Prior to doctoral studies, he was a nuclear arms control official at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and was also a Research Associate at the Federation of American Scientists. His research is published in Contemporary Security Policy, Energy Research & Social Science, International Security, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, The Journal of Politics, The Nonproliferation Review, and Survival. He has written for Arms Control Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Financial Times, Science, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post.

Dr Carolina Pantoliano is an early career researcher and award winning teacher specialising in the politics of nuclear weapons, arms control, and disarmament. She is interested in feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial approaches to global politics, particularly international security, global governance, and norm dynamics.
Carolina joined Glasgow in October 2024 as a Research Associate in Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament, where she will be working closely with Dr Rhys Crilley to deliver innovative research and impact on nuclear politics and international security. As a member of the Atomic Anxiety in the Third Nuclear Age team, Carolina will lead on the first two project work packages which involve a global mapping exercise of how states, civil society, the media, and the public frame nuclear weapons, arms control, and disarmament.
Prior to starting at Glasgow, Carolina was Teaching Fellow in Global Governance at the University of Auckland. Carolina completed her PhD at the University of Auckland in 2024, where her thesis drew upon feminist, poststructrual, and postcolonial approaches to examine the emergence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Carolina has already published research in leading academic journals such as International Affairs and Contemporary Security Policy, and she is currently writing her first book. Carolina is also a member of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group, which is part of the Rethinking Deterrence Research Network, housed at Harvard University’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs.

Dr Aniruddha Saha holds a BA degree in Journalism and Communication Studies from Manipal University. From 2017 to 2018, he read for an MA degree in International Relations at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, as a Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Dr Duncan Anderson scholar. Dr Saha successfully defended his PhD thesis in the same department in September 2023 and was elected as a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at St. John’s College, Oxford, starting from October 2023.

Dr. Ritu Mathur’s research and teaching interests are in the field of International Relations with specialization in Security Studies. She is interested in developing postcolonial and critical security studies lenses to address problems of human suffering at the intersection of humanitarianism and disarmament. Her first book, Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control (2017) articulates a detailed account of practices of witnessing, trauma and testimony, practices of legalization and medicalization as the ICRC’s crafts an ‘effects based approach’ to arms regulation and prohibition. Dr. Mathur’s second book, Civilizational Discourses in Weapons Control (2020) studies the problem of modernity, ethnocentrism and universality as it explores how concepts of time and civilization are deployed as rhetorical resources in configuring our imaginary of arms control and disarmament as a disciplinary field of study. She has served as a guest editor for the Asian Journal of Political Science and in this capacity brought forth a Special Issue: Postcolonial Perspectives on Weapons Control (2018) She has published peer reviewed articles in reputed journals such as Contemporary Security Policy, Critical Studies on Security, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, and Strategic Analysis. She has twice been nominated for the Bernard Brodie Prize by the journal Contemporary Security Policy for innovative contributions in the field of security studies. Dr. Mathur is currently working on a book manuscript investigating the problem of Security Archives and the Problem of Cyber Arms Control.

Dr. Alexander K. Bollfrass is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He was previously a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Alex was a nuclear weapons policy researcher at the Washington-​based Arms Control Association and Stimson Center, before earning a Ph.D. in security studies from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Hassan Elbahtimy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of War studies and Director of the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS). Hassan’s research focuses on international security and the global politics of nuclear weapons. He has written widely on these topics including in Foreign Affairs, Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Studies, the Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Middle East Studies and the Nonproliferation Review among others. His research was awarded the McElveny Grand Prize by the Nonproliferation Review and was shortlisted for the The Amos Perlmutter Prize by the Journal for Strategic Studies. He is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and served as a Trustee and Executive Committee member of the British International Studies Association (BISA) 2019-2022 and chaired L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize in 2022.

Seifudein Adem is a visiting professor at Doshisha University where he teaches international relations and global political economy, with a focus on the Global South. Before coming to Doshisha, he taught political science and served, from 2006 to 2016, as the Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University. Dr. Adem has published several books and academic articles on a wide range of topics. His current research focuses on the deepening ties between African countries and Asia’s major powers.

Professor Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu (Ph.D., Bilkent University, International Relations Dept, 1996) is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at MEF University in Istanbul. From 1997 to 2011, Prof. Kibaroglu taught courses on Arms Control and Disarmament in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara. Prof. Kibaroglu was a Research Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva (1995); an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fellow at the University of Southampton (1996); a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Monterey Institute in California (1996/97); and Sabbatical Fellow at Belfer Center of Harvard University (2004/05). Prof. Kibaroglu is the editor of Defence Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism (2010), Bioterrorism: Threats and Deterrents (2010), Responses to Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism (2011), Defence Against Terrorism (2011), and Analysis and Strategies to Counter the Terrorism Threat (2011) by IOS Press in the Netherlands. He also published in Security Dialogue, Nonproliferation Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Middle East Quarterly, Middle East Journal, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Turkish Studies, Middle East Policy, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. From 2006 to 2013, Prof. Kibaroglu served as the Academic Advisor of the NATO Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT). Since 2007, Prof. Kibaroglu has been a Member of the Council of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. In 2015, Prof. Kibaroglu was awarded The Stanton Foundation Grant for Course Development on International and Nuclear Security. From 2016 to 2019, Prof. Kibaroglu served as a Distinguished Member of the Sectoral Working Group of Roketsan Missile Industries in Ankara.

Marianne’s work at the University of Queensland covers international security (including a specialist Masters course on Arms Control and Disarmament), international organisations, international humanitarian law, human rights, and peace studies. She was Foundation Director of the Rotary Peace Centre at UQ. Marianne gained her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Oxford University, and taught at Magdalen College, Oxford before moving to UQ. Her research has been published in, inter alia, The Nonproliferation Review, Contemporary Security Policy, and International Relations. In addition to her academic work, Marianne works with various civil society groups, including WILPF (the Women’s International League for Peace and Security); she is currently Co-Chair of ICAN Australia, and is a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network.

Jeff Knopf is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), where he serves as chair of the Master’s degree program in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies. Dr. Knopf is also a research affiliate with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Knopf received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford, and he has previously taught at the University of Southern California, the University of California-Santa Cruz, and the Naval Postgraduate School. He has published extensively on arms control, nonproliferation, deterrence, security assurances, and the impacts of civil society actors on international security. His recent publications include being a co-editor of Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons (University of Georgia Press, 2019) and a co-author of “The Obama Administration and Syrian Chemical Weapons: Deterrence, Compellence, and the Limits of the ‘Resolve Plus Bombs’ Formula,” Security Studies (2020).

Rebecca Davis Gibbons is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine. She previously served as a fellow and associate of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Before becoming an academic, Dr. Gibbons taught elementary school among the Bikini community on Kili Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and served as a national security policy analyst at SAIC providing support to Headquarters Air Force Strategic Stability and Countering WMD Division (AF/A10-S). Her book The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime was published by Cornell University Press in 2022.

Dr Sana Rahim, Lecturer in Critical Security, Sheffield Hallam UniversitySana Rahim SFHEA is an interdisciplinary researcher in her field of Politics and International Relations. She recently joined Sheffield Hallam University as a lecturer and teaches 21st century crime and critical security. She has previously held positions at The Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Manchester and The University of Leicester. Dr Rahims’ primary research areas are in critical security studies and postcolonial approaches with particular interests in nuclear weapons, the Global South and the ‘notion of the voice’. ‘Pakistan’s Nuclear Exclusion. Living with Orientalism’ by Dr. Sana Rahim: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pakistans-nuclear-exclusion-9780198902157?q=sana%20rahim&lang=en&cc=gb#

Dr Jana Wattenberg is a UKRI postdoctoral fellow (Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme for Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship) at American University (Washington DC) and Aberystwyth University (UK). She is also a Lecturer in Security at Aberystwyth University and a Senior Fellow with Women in International Security (WIIS). Jana’s research focuses on nuclear weapons, nuclear disarmament, women in the nuclear weapons field and gendered dimensions of nuclear discourses.Link to staff page Aberystwyth University: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/staff-profiles/listing/profile/jaw95/

Dr Laura Considine is an Associate Professor in International Politics at the University of Leeds and co-Director of the Centre for Global Security Challenges. Her current work focuses on conceptualising nuclear weapons in international politics, feminist and everyday approaches to nuclear weapons and nuclear narratives. Her work has been published in International Affairs, International Theory, Review of International Studies and the European Journal of International Relations.

Riley Taitingfong (Chamoru) is a researcher and educator working on issues of environmental justice, Indigenous self-determination, emerging technologies, and community engagement. She completed her PhD in Communication at the University of California San Diego, where her project focused on Indigenous governance of genetic engineering technologies known as gene drives. She has published her work on gene drives in Human Biology, the Hastings Center Report, and Nature Biotechnology. Riley is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, working on the implementation of CARE Principles of Indigenous Data Governance within data repositories.

Dr. Anwar Mhajne, an Umm al Fahem Native, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College. She specializes in international relations and comparative politics, with a focus on gender, religion, and Middle Eastern politics. She also serves on the Academic Council of American Friends of Combatants for Peace. Her writing has been featured in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly​, Religion and Politics, Culturico, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Conversation, Times of Israel, Haaretz, Middle East Eye, +972 Magazine, Quartz, The Defense Post, The Jerusalem Post, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Albawaba, the New Arab, and the National, among others.At Stonehill College, Dr. Mhajne teaches Global Security Studies, Political Science Research Methods, US Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East, Terror, State and Society, Cyber Security, Politics of “Fake News,” and International Politics. She is a Co-chair of the Faculty of Color Association at Stonehill College and currently serves as a Member-at-Large on the executive committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS).

Shampa Biswas is a professor in a Libera Arts college in Washington State. Her work revolves around postcolonial theory, race and colonialism in international relations and non proliferation and disarmament.

A Chamoru scholar (Guåhan/Guam), Dr. Naputi’s research focuses on issues of Indigenous movements, colonialism, and militarism in the Mariana Islands archipelago. In 2021-2022 she was the recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship, which she used to work with Independent Guåhan educating the island’s public about sovereignty. Dr. Naputi’s recent publications appear in Security Dialogue, Environmental Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. She has also published in outlets such as CommonDreams, In These Times, Pacific Island Times, and Latinx Spaces.

Anne Sisson Runyan, PhD in International Relations, is a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, where she also headed the Department of Women’s Studies (now Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and directed the Taft Research Center. As among the progenitors of and a specialist in feminist International Relations, her more recent authored, co-authored, and co-edited book books include Global Gender Politics (Routledge 2019, sixth edition planned), Gender and Global Restructuring (Routledge 2011, third edition in progress), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America (Ashgate/Routledge 2013). She has published widely in edited volumes and in such journals as International Affairs, Human Rights Review, Review of International Studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Security, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics, for which she served as an Associate Editor and Guest Editor and remains on the editorial board. She has also served as a Vice President and in other leadership roles for the International Studies Association, currently chairing its Research Workshops Grant Committee. She was a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at York University in 2016 to study the politics of nuclear waste in Canada and is a Taft Center Fellow at the University of Cincinnati for 2023-24 to develop a book on Indigenous women’s resistances along the nuclear fuel chain. She is a member of the femnukes collective devoted to the study of feminist interventions into global nuclear politics and leads the group preparing the module on nuclear environmental politics for the Decolonizing Nuclear Studies project.

Nuclear Weapons and Popular CulturePhD Candidate Newcastle University, UK

My name is Tegan Harrison. I am a PhD researcher at Cardiff University, based in the School of Law and Politics. My research looks at the securitization of outer space through the case of the UN agenda item, ‘the prevention of an arms race in outer space’ (PAROS). In this context, the project focuses on the framing of security since the 1980s and across various PAROS initiatives. My research interests also include the intersection of space and nuclear security issues, specifically, missile defence in the context of arms race dynamics and the use of satellites for arms control verification and monitoring. In addition, I work as a PGR tutor and take regular undergraduate seminars. This has been a brilliant opportunity and I would highly recommend it to any prospective PGRs!

Sarah uses she/ her pronounces and is a master student currently studying Queer theory. The broader title of the academic track is known as Women, Gender and Sexuality studies. Sarah shares her insights on the topics that interest her in the field as well as her work on the project of ‘ I am a nuclear bombshell’. The storyline behind I am a Nuclear bombshell is sexualising nuclear weapons in a way that is empowering.

Mariana Budjeryn is a Senior Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Formerly, she held appointments as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow with MTA, and the International Security Program, a fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and as a visiting professor at Tufts University and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.https://www.belfercenter.org/person/mariana-budjeryn

Thomas is a researcher, professor and writer. He is currently working at Texas State University. Thomas has written multiple books which explore ethics and safety in the Nuclear field. His contributions include lesson plans and discussion prompts.

Chemist by education and profession working as a separation chemist in the US, Shirley Johnson worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She worked there as a safeguarding inspector for 25 years. Her area of expertise is safeguarding. She is now working in consulting in non-proliferation and safeguarding issues.

Director of the Middle East Non-proliferation Program at the Center of Non-proliferation Studies in Middlebury College. As well as a project head of the UNIDIR — UN Institute for Disarmament Research (Middle East weapons of mass destruction).

Amy Woolf has spent over 30 years at the Congressional Research Service at the library of Congress. During her time there, she was a nuclear weapons policy specialist. Having had so much experience, Amy provided information for members of staff in Congress when it came to giving her expert advice on nuclear weapons policy. She is an expert in the field of Russia-US nuclear weapons.

Maria Rost Rublee is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Monash University and Chair of the International Security Studies Taskforce on Diversity. She is an international relations scholar whose work interrogates the social construction of national security, including nuclear politics, maritime security, and diversity in security studies. Her current projects include survey experiments and nuclear politics, lived experiences of security studies scholars, and examination of sea militias in the South China Sea. Dr. Rublee’s work has been supported by the Australian Department of Defence, the Canadian Department of National Defence, the United States Institute of Peace, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Japan Foundation, among others. Her work has been published in a variety of international journals, including Security Studies, Survival, European Journal of Public Policy, Contemporary Security Policy, International Studies Review, and Comparative Political Studies. She is past Chair of the International Security Studies Section of ISA, an editorial board member of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy and the Nonproliferation Review, and a former editor of International Studies Perspectives. She received her Ph.D. from George Washington University.

Most recently Amy Sands has worked at the Middlebury Institue of International International Studies. Over the last 30-35 years, Amy has worked as a researcher and policy activist for non-proliferation, disarmament and arms control.

Doug Shaw has worked in many various jobs and roles surrounding nuclear security and protection. His interest in the field from childhood having had grown up in Alaska and being surrounded by conversations on the topic. He was worked in educational institutions and initiatives for nuclear threats.

Kelley Ragusa works with The Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives (NSSPI) which is a multidisciplinary organization at Texas A&M University and the first U.S. academic institution focused on technical graduate education, research, and service related to the safeguarding of nuclear materials and the reduction of nuclear threats. Her work includes various tasks however she is the developer of courses for the Nuclear Security and Safeguards Education Portal (NSSEP) which can be found on their website as well as on the Highly Nriched site!

Mbazor Jeremiah has been working in the nuclear field in Africa and Asia for over a decade. He is the host of AfriNuke podcast and also the co-founder of African young Generation in Nuclear and Nigerian young Generation in Nuclear.

Douglas B. Shaw, is a Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Principal of AsymmetryX, a planning and communications consultancy focused on leveraging Washington for global impact.Previously, Shaw served in a variety of senior leadership roles in higher education, including as George Washington University’s senior associate provost for international strategy; associate dean for planning, research, and external relations at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs; and director of policy planning in the Office of the President at Georgetown University. He also has served in leadership roles in several non-governmental organizations including the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, College Bound, and the Worker Rights Consortium. During the Clinton administration, he served in the U.S. Department of Energy, working to secure weapons-usable nuclear materials in Ukraine; in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency supporting the indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and in the Office of Presidential Personnel in the White House.Shaw holds B.S.F.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Georgetown University in international relations and security studies. He has served as an assistant professor of international affairs at George Washington University for eight years and as a teaching fellow at Georgetown for three years, offering more than 20 semester courses on nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, and WMD terrorism. He has lectured on nuclear nonproliferation on four continents in venues including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and Harvard University; discussed nuclear weapons issues on C-SPAN and National Public Radio; and published in Arms Control Today, The Nonproliferation Review, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His research has been funded by a wide range of organizations, including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Sandia National Laboratories, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Doreen Horschig is an associate fellow with the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for the Strategic and International Studies (CSIS PONI). She is also a non-resident research associate at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Previously, Doreen was a nuclear security policy fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Stanton nuclear security fellow at MIT. Her research is twofold and examines nuclear norms contestation and counterproliferation. Doreen holds a PhD in security studies from UCF, a MA in international relations from New York University, and a BA in international studies from Manhattan College.

Alex Warnes is a software developer for Secureworks. He previously worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency before diversifying into software development. Alex Warnes has created his own Enrichment Calculator by combining his knowledge of the Nuclear science and computer engineering.

Toby Dalton is senior fellow and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work focuses on nonproliferation, deterrence, and regional security in Northeast and Southern Asia. Prior to joining Carnegie, he held senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. He received a PhD in public policy from the George Washington University.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York.Nick Richie mainly researches and teaches on issues surrounding nuclear weapons, disarmament, arms control , and UK, US foreign policy as well as International relations.

Anna Weichselbraun is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist teaching in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna.She is currently finishing her book manuscript on knowledge making practices of nuclear safeguards inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has published articles from this research in Cultural Anthropology and PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Michal Smetana is an Associate Professor at Charles University, Head of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), and Head Researcher at the Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS). He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and was previously a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). His main research interests lie at the intersection of security studies, international relations, and political psychology, with a specific focus on nuclear and chemical weapons, arms control and disarmament, deterrence theory, and norms and deviance in international affairs. His articles have been published in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Review, Contemporary Security Policy, Survival, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and many other journals. He is the author of Nuclear Deviance.

Alan Owen is a descendant of Nuclear Veteran (James Ronald Owen) who participated in Operation Dominic in 1962 at Christmas Island. Alan was previously the Chairman of the BNTVA and founded LABRATS in 2020. (www.labrats.international). Alan has a team of experts who can help you understand the nuclear testing program.

Cheryl Rofer worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1965 to 2001. She developed an essential spectrum for laser isotope separation, managed environmental cleanups and a program to develop a disposal method for hazardous waste, and worked with Estonia and Kazakhstan to clean up environmental problems left by the Soviet Union. Since retirement, she has been active in local groups having to do with world affairs and Manhattan Project history. In addition to her technical articles, a book, and multiple interviews, she has reviewed the television series “Manhattan” and the Santa Fe performance of “Dr. Atomic” for Physics Today. She is active on Twitter (@cherylrofer) and explains scientific stuff.

B.A. 1996, Physics, University of Chicago. M.A. 1999, Energy and Resources, University of California at Berkeley. M.A. 2003, Sociology, Stanford University. Ph.D. 2006, Political Science, Stanford University. Reed College 2006–. Alexander H. Montgomery has published articles on theorizing and dismantling proliferation networks; the perils of predicting proliferation, intelligence, and the future of security studies; and on the effects of social networks of international organizations on power, interstate conflict, and economic sanctions. He is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Political Networks. His research interests include political organizations, social networks, weapons of mass disruption and destruction, social studies of technology, and interstate social relations. Most recently, he has been a Residential Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; prior to that he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security with a placement in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) working for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. His portfolio included writing a new Department of Defense Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Kelsey Davenport is the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, where she focuses on the nuclear and missile programs in Iran, North Korea, India, and Pakistan and on international efforts to prevent proliferation and nuclear terrorism. She also reports on developments in these areas for Arms Control Today and runs the Arms Control Association’s project assessing the effectiveness of multilateral voluntary initiatives that contribute to nonproliferation efforts.She is the lead author of the P4+1 and Iran Nuclear Deal Alert newsletter, which assesses developments related to the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, and the North Korea Denuclearization Digest, which tracks efforts to negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. Kelsey is also the co-author of a series of seven reports assessing the impact of the Nuclear Security Summits on efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism. Kelsey joined the Arms Control Association in August 2011 as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow.Kelsey has been quoted in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor, Vox, and The Guardian and has provided commentary on NPR, CBC, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News, al-Jazeera, and C-Span. She has published opeds in various outlets, including TIME, Reuters, CNN, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Defense One.Kelsey is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the advisory committee for the National Committee on North Korea. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.Prior to joining the Arms Control Association, Kelsey worked a think tank in Jerusalem researching Middle East security issues. She holds a masters degree in peace studies from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor of arts summa cum laude in international studies and political science from Butler University.

Matt Korda is a Research Associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he co-authors the Nuclear Notebook with Hans Kristensen. Previously, he worked for the Arms Control, Disarmament, and WMD Non-Proliferation Centre at NATO HQ in Brussels. Matt is also the co-director of Foreign Policy Generation––a group of young people working to develop a progressive foreign policy for the next generation.He received his MA in International Peace & Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he subsequently worked as a Research Assistant on nuclear deterrence and strategic stability. He also completed an internship with the Verification, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) in London, where he focused on nuclear security and safeguards.Matt’s research interests and recent publications focus on nuclear deterrence and disarmament, progressive foreign policy, and the nexus between nuclear weapons, climate change, and injustice. Matt’s work has been widely published and quoted in The Washington Post, Forbes, CBC, Politico, The Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Defense One, Inkstick, 38 North, Arms Control Wonk, and others.Matt is the Ploughshares Fund 2020 Olum Fellow and an Associate Member of the Canadian Pugwash Group. He is also a 2018 alumnus of IGCC’s Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Boot Camp, a 2019 alumnus of the Wilson Center’s Nuclear History Boot Camp, and a 2019 CSIS Nuclear Scholar.

Timothy Westmyer is a Senior Project Lead at CRDF Global, an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1995 in response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the threat of large-scale proliferation of weapons technology from the region. After bolstering the global scientific community and fostering alternatives to weapons research, the past 25 years has expanded to provide flexible logistical support, program design and management, and strategic capacity building programs in the areas of CBRNE security and nonproliferation, border security, cybersecurity, and other fields. Tim leads CRDF Global’s efforts to help partner governments and the private sector build their capacity to implement UN Security Council resolutions on North Korea’s WMD program. He previously had a portfolio on nuclear material security and counter nuclear smuggling projects at CRDF Global.Before joining CRDF Global, he was a Research and Program Assistant at the Rising Powers Initiative located at George Washington University where he coordinated a book project on domestic debates in Asia over the risks and rewards of nuclear energy and non-proliferation. Tim has also worked as a Foreign Affairs Assistant at the Department of State’s Office of the Coordinator for Threat Reduction where he aided U.S. efforts at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit and Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins as she chaired the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction. Tim has also spent time working at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Senate, the Arms Control Association, and on Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign. He was a member of the 2013 Nuclear Scholars Initiative and a 2020 N Square fellow.Since 2016, Tim is the host of the Super Critical Podcast, which explores to portrayal of nuclear weapons in popular culture such as film, television, books, games, music, and more. The podcast aims to be an outlet for nuclear experts to rant about accuracy problems but also a discussion about what each piece of popular culture teaches the public about the dangers of nuclear war and how it can be harnessed by educators and activists to advance a sane nuclear weapons policy. The podcast has been used in teaching curriculum in high school as well as undergraduate and graduate degree programs.His writing has been published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Center for Security and International Studies, Democracy Arsenal, The Diplomat, Arms Control Today, and other outlets. Mr. Westmyer holds an MA with honors in Security Studies from Georgetown University where his thesis explored the impact of verification considerations on arms control negotiations. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in International Studies, History, and a minor in Asian Studies from the University of Redlands in beautiful California.

Philip Reiner is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Institute for Security and Technology Security, a San Francisco Bay Area-based nonpartisan 501c3 that works to outpace emerging security threats posed by advanced technologies by bridging technical experts and national security policymakers. He previously served President Obama’s Senior Director for South Asia on the National Security Council staff; as the Senior Advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan; and as a Director for Pakistan on the NSC staff. He was a civil servant in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, where he received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service; and for a number of years at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, working in their Electronic Warfare, Remote Sensing, and Vision Systems business units. Philip is as a Member of the Advisory Board for the AI Security Initiative at the UC Berkeley Center for Long Term Cyber Security; an affiliate with Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; the Director for Advisory at AETOS Strategy and Advisory; and the owner of a personal consulting business where he advises both public and private clients on business, tech, and international security with a predominant focus on India, China, and Japan. His writing has appeared in a variety of outlets, to include Foreign Affairs, The Cypher Brief, Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, and C4ISRNet. He obtained his Master’s degree in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Religions with a minor in History from the University of California at Santa Barbara, with a focus on both East and South Asian history. He routinely guest lectures on emerging international security risks at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, and lives in Oakland with his wife and two daughters.

Jamie Kwong is a Marshall Scholar pursuing her PhD in War Studies at King’s College London where her research focuses on public opinion of nuclear weapons issues. She serves as a research assistant to Dr. Heather Williams on a project related to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and previous projects on the P5 Process and the impact of social media on conflict escalation. She previously served as a research assistant in the Nuclear Policy Programme at RUSI, working on projects related to strategic stability, disarmament verification, and the UK Project on Nuclear Issues. She interned with the U.S. State Department’s International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Jamie holds an MA in Public Diplomacy and BA in International Relations from the University of Southern California where she served as a Korean Studies Institute Fellow.

Dr. Andrew Reddie is a Senior Systems Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories and Senior Research Affiliate at the University of California, Berkeley. His substantive work focuses on nuclear deterrence, conflict escalation, and arms control issues.

Prior to arriving at Ploughshares, Sara was the Director of the N Square DC Hub. N Square is a funders collaborative created in 2014 to introduce innovation and creative thinking into the nuclear risk reduction space. As the Director of the DC Hub, she brought together nuclear risk reduction professionals to collaborate, build community, and connect with innovators and experts from other disciplines, while also bringing nontraditional approaches and voices to the space. Activities included convening virtual monthly virtual brown bags for early career professionals, organizing professional development programs, and hosting conversations about many of the existing field-wide issues.Sara has close to 20 years of professional and academic experience in the fields of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security, holding research, analysis, teaching, and managerial positions at a national nuclear weapons laboratory, an NGO, a university, and at various think tanks around the world. This diverse background is a clear indication of her openness to learning new processes and approaches.She has a PhD in Political Science from University College London and is the author of Global Nuclear Order (Routledge: 2019) and Politics and the Bomb: The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements (Routledge: 2014), as well as numerous scholarly and policy articles.

Dr. Natasha Bajema has built a 20-year career in national security with a specialized focus on reducing the risks of nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Natasha is the CEO and Founder, Nuclear Spin Cycle, LLC, an innovative startup which produces creative content with national security impact. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic Risks and an NSquare Fellow. From 2008 to 2019, Natasha spent more than ten years at the National Defense University where she taught an elective course on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that examines the development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons through documentaries, TV, and film. At NDU, she also led a multi-year initiative exploring the impact of emerging technologies on WMD. From 2010 to 2013, Natasha held a long-term detail assignment serving in various capacities in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics, Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and in Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Natasha has also completed stints at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch of the Office for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. Natasha is the author of three published science fiction mystery novels in the Lara Kingsley Series and the host of the Authors of Mass Destruction podcast. She holds an M.A. in international policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Rives Matson is a designer working on Science related projects. She is an interpreter who turns complex information into more simplified and an accessible method of understanding this information through her art.

Hi! My name is Rives Matson and I am a 3D environmental designer at Freeman, specializing in creating temporary environments/ interactive spaces that tell a story. I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) majoring in Industrial Design and in my spare time I work as a freelance graphic and UI/UX designer.

Kate Hewitt is a public affairs specialist with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Her portfolio includes national security infrastructure, acquisitions, safety, operations, and project management. Prior to joining NNSA, she was a security and strategy Research Assistant and Herbert Scoville Peace Fellow with the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Kate was a Nuclear Security Innovation Fellow and is the co-founder of a nuclear Highly NRiched, a first-of-its-kind education start-up on nuclear issues. She is an early career board adviser for Girl Security. Kate has published extensively on nuclear weapons topics including: sanctions, Iran, and North Korea; and the importance of breaking barriers for women in STEM and national security. She is the recipient of the Leonard M. Rieser award for her work with Erin Connolly to teach fundamentals of nuclear history and policy in high schools nationally. She previously served as a volunteer in Peace Corps Moldova. Kate holds an M.A. in Global Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Farsi Foreign Language Fellow focused on nuclear weapons proliferation theory, and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Gonzaga University.

Tom Weis is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Design department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Weis works with a team of faculty to guide graduate students through their year-long thesis projects. His undergraduate courses include such topics as advanced prototyping, gun violence prevention, aquaponics and global security issues. His work has been featured in such places as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2010 and Mass General Hospital’s Russell MD Museum of History and Innovation. Since 2015, Weis has explored how design and creativity might work to reduce nuclear threats. He has presented at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The International Atomic Energy Agency and has led collaborative workshops between design students and cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and with teams at Sandia National Laboratories. Weis initiated a Global Security Fellowship at RISD funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Tom has kept a home in coastal Maine since the late 1990’s when he moved there to pursue an apprenticeship building traditional wooden boats.

Dr. Tara Drozdenko is the director for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists working on the federal-level policy changes and commitment to diplomacy, so the United States is a leader in reducing the nuclear threat. She earned a Ph.D. in plasma physics and has worked for the U.S. Navy on issues related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and for the U.S. State Department on Nonproliferation and Arms Control issues.

Anne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University in Wales, UK. Since earning her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010, she has held academic fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Relations at Monterey, and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zürich. In 2013-2014, she worked for the US Congress as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, first as a National Security Fellow in the office of Senator Kirstin Gillibrand (D-NY) and then at the Congressional Research Service. Her research interests, located at the nexus of international relations and science and technology studies, include nuclear deterrence, disarmament and nonproliferation, cybersecurity, the evolution of military strategy and tactics, and women in combat. Learn more about Anne by watching her introduction video: https://youtu.be/DblWo1ywa7E