John C. Baker is a principal analyst in the threat analysis division of the Homeland Security Institute in Arlington, Virginia. He previously worked as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where his areas of expertise included homeland security and counterterrorism analysis, and satellite remote sensing, and as a researcher at George Washington University's Space Policy Institute.
Jean du Preez directs the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies; is nonproliferation professor at the Graduate School for International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies; and serves on the International Steering Committee of the Middle Powers Initiative and the International Panel on Fissile Material. As a South African diplomat he participated in the 1995 and 2000 Review Conferences of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), as well as several other arms control conferences. His interviews with Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil, chairman of the 2005 NPT Review Conference, and Ambassador Lszl Molnr of Hungary, chairman of the 2003 PrepCom, ran in the March 2006 and March 2004 issues of the Nonproliferation Review, respectively.
Astrid Forland is a professor of Norwegian and international history at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has also worked at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been a visiting doctoral student at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. Her most recent publication is "Preventive War as an Alternative to Treaty-Based Nuclear Non-Proliferation," in Morten Bremer Mrli and Sverre Lodgaard, eds., Nuclear Proliferation and International Security (2007).
Loch K. Johnson is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security and has written or edited twenty-two books on U.S. national security, most recently Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy (2007), Handbook of Intelligence Studies (2007), and Strategic Intelligence (2007). He served as special assistant to the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1975-76); the first staff director of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (1977-79); and special assistant to Chairman Les Aspin on the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence (1995-96).
Milton Leitenberg is senior research scholar at the University of Maryland's Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. Since 1966, when he entered the arms control field, Leitenberg has authored or edited half a dozen books and written close to 200 papers, monographs, and book chapters. His first papers dealing with biological weapons were published in 1967, and he was part of the team at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute that produced six volumes on "The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare." His most recent major works concerning biological weapons are Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat (2005) and The Problem of Biological Weapons (2004).
Jeff Lindemyer is a policy fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, DC, where he writes on presidential and congressional action on nuclear weapons and nonproliferation issues. His research interests include nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear terrorism, and the intersection between nuclear energy and weapons development. Lindemyer earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California-Berkeley and will receive his master's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in May.
Michael S. Malley is an assistant professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Previously, he taught in the Department of Political Science at Ohio University, where he also served as associate director of Southeast Asian Studies. In 2008, he published "Bypassing Regionalism? Domestic Politics and Nuclear Energy Security in Southeast Asia," in Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Donald K. Emmerson, ed.
Tanya Ogilvie-White is a senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Since 2006, she has been the associate editor of Asian Security and a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific's Study Group on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Asia Pacific. In 2007, she won the Michael Leifer Prize for scholarship on Southeast Asia for her article, "Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Meeting Global Obligations through Regional Security Architectures."
Matthew V. Tompkins is a WMD policy specialist with the U.S. government and a former chemical officer in the U.S. Army. The research supporting his article, "Albania's Chemical Weapons Con," was completed during his tenure as a Henry Luce Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, China; the views represented in the article are his own.