Derrin Culp is a research associate at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, a unit of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. He completed a master's degree in international affairs at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs after twenty-two years in the financial services sector. Recent publications include “The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review: The Nexus of Biological Weapons Threats and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy,” in the 2011 edition of Biosecurity Commons Review, and “Rural and Suburban Population Surge Following Detonation of an Improvised Nuclear Device: A New Model to Estimate Impact” (co-author) in the March 2011 issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
Jane Esberg is special assistant to the director at New York University's Center on International Cooperation. She was the winner of 2009 Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at Stanford University.
Paolo Foradori is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento in Italy and an associate of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From 2009 to 2011 he was the Marie Curie Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, arms control, and nonproliferation. He has also worked with the United Nations in Russia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Bologna, a master's degree in international relations from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in international relations from the University of Trento.
Alexander Glaser is an assistant professor at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he runs the Nuclear Futures Laboratory. He also participates in Princeton's Science and Global Security Program. Glaser's research focuses on nuclear energy and proliferation and related policy issues, and he is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. He earned his PhD in physics from the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany.
Thomas Graham Jr. is one of the world's foremost experts on nuclear nonproliferation and arms control. A former senior US diplomat, for nearly three decades starting in 1970 Ambassador Graham was involved in the negotiation of most major international arms control and nonproliferation agreements that the United States was party to. From 1994 through 1997, he served as the special representative of the president for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, and in this capacity he led US government efforts to achieve the permanent extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Graham is executive chairman of the board of Lightbridge Corporation, a member of the United Arab Emirates’ International Advisory Board, chairman of CanAlaska Uranium Ltd., adjunct professor at the University of Washington and the University of Tennessee, part-time instructor at Stanford University, and author of several books.
Jeffrey W. Knopf is a senior lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. From 1998 to 2000, he served as editor of the Nonproliferation Review. Knopf has edited the volume Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation, forthcoming from Stanford University Press. His current research seeks to compare different nonproliferation initiatives to identify the sources and effects of multilateral cooperation with nonproliferation measures.
George Michael received his PhD from George Mason University's School of Public Policy. He is an associate professor of nuclear counterproliferation and deterrence theory at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. Previously, he was an associate professor at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. He served as an enlisted airman in both the US Air Force and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard and is the author of five books, including Theology of Hate: A History of the World Church of the Creator (University Press of Florida, 2009) and Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance (University of Vanderbilt Press, 2012). In addition, his articles have been published in numerous academic journals.
Kenneth D. Rose is a lecturer in history at California State University, Chico. His publications include American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition (1996), One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (2001), and Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans and World War II (2008).
Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. He is the author of, among other works, The Limits of Safety (Princeton University Press, 1993), Moving Targets (Princeton University Press, 1989), co-author (with Kenneth N. Waltz) of The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (W.W. Norton, 2003), and editor of Inside Nuclear South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2009). He is a member of the Nonproliferation Review's Editorial Board.
Clifton W. Sherrill is a former US Marine and a veteran of the 1990–91 Gulf War. He holds a master's degree in defense and strategic studies, a PhD in international relations, and a law degree. He is an assistant professor of international relations at Troy University, where he teaches in the Master's of Science in International Relations Program, prior to which he was on the faculty of Mississippi College (2006–09). Previously, he was an intelligence analyst in the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, where he worked in the Shia-Middle East Analysis Unit. His assignments included deployment to Iraq in 2005 and 2006 and service in the National Counterterrorism Center. He has published in Strategic Insights, Comparative Strategy, and Military Review, among other publications.
John R. Walker has worked in the United Kingdom's Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since March 1985. He has been a member of delegations to the review conferences of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the BWC Ad Hoc Group, and the CWC Preparatory Commission, among others. Walker has published widely on aspects of the United Kingdom's CWC practice challenge inspection program in the Verification Research, Training, and Information Centre's yearbooks and on chemical and biological weapons (CBW) history in the Harvard-Sussex Program's CBW Conventions Bulletin. Between January 2005 and April 2007 he contributed to a project at Southampton University on the nuclear weapons program of the United Kingdom, and he is author of British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954–1973 (Ashgate, 2010).
Ward Wilson is a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an award-winning writer (winner of the 2008 McElvany Prize). His work has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dissent, the Chicago Tribune, the Nashville Tennessean, the Nonproliferation Review, and International Security, among others. Wilson has spoken widely, including at Stanford University, Princeton University, Georgetown University, the US Naval War College, the United Nations, the British House of Commons, and in South Africa, Wales, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway. He is the author of Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming).