Dallas Boyd is a senior policy analyst whose work concerns nuclear weapons policy and nuclear counterterrorism. He has served as the principal investigator for several Department of Defense studies concerning weapons of mass destruction-related science and technology trends; China's advanced technology acquisition strategies; and high-consequence terrorist attack scenarios. His publications include “Protecting Sensitive Information: The Virtue of Self-Restraint,” Homeland Security Affairs (April 2011), “Unconventional Thinking: Why Conventional Disarmament Must Precede Nuclear Abolition,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March/April 2010), and “Why Has the United States Not Been Attacked Again?” Washington Quarterly (July 2009, with Lewis Dunn and James Scouras). Mr. Boyd received a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and directs the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a member of the Nonproliferation Review's editorial board. His most recent publication is How Rivalries End (with Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson), published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently completing a book, Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century for Cambridge University Press.
Michael D. Gordin is a professor in the History Department at Princeton University, where he specializes in the history of modern science. He is the author of four books, including Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Princeton University Press, 2007), and Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
Mark Hibbs is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and a member of the Nonproliferation Review's editorial board. Hibbs's research and project activity currently concerns the international nuclear trade regime, political governance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the future of IAEA verification, and nuclear fuel cycle policy making in national nuclear energy programs. His recent publications include two Carnegie reports, The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and Why Fukushima Was Preventable, the latter co-authored with James Acton, as well as numerous articles on bilateral and multilateral nuclear cooperation agreements, the future of IAEA safeguards, and nuclear trade and verification matters in South Asia, China, Iran, and the Koreas.
Wade Huntley is senior lecturer in the National Security Affairs department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA. He is also academic director for the NPS Regional Security Education Program, and co-designer and instructor of a specialized intelligence tradecraft course hosted by NPS for Department of Energy nuclear weapons technical specialists. Huntley's publications include four edited volumes and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and essays on nuclear weapons proliferation, global security studies, US foreign policies, East and South Asian regional relations, security and arms control in space, and international relations theory. His most recent publications include “Canada-China Space Engagement: Opportunities and Prospects,” in Issues in Canada-China Relations, Pitman B. Potter with Thomas Adams, eds. (Canadian International Council, 2011); “The Abolition Aspiration,” Nonproliferation Review 17 (March 2010); and “Planning the Unplannable: Scenarios on the Future of Space,” Space Policy 26 (February 2010). He received his doctorate in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and has held research and teaching positions at several universities and colleges.
S. Paul Kapur is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and a faculty affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Previously, he served on the faculties of the Naval War College and Claremont McKenna College and was a visiting professor at Stanford University. Kapur is author of Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2007) and co-author, with Sumit Ganguly, of India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2010). His work has also appeared in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, Asian Survey, Nonproliferation Review, and Asian Security, as well as in numerous edited volumes.
Carl Lundgren is an economist at the Department of Labor, an inventor, and founder of the Jonah Speaks website (www.JonahSpeaks.org), which is dedicated to finding less violent and less costly substitutes for war. His patented economic inventions include a method of forecasting incentives and a method for preventing collusion between business firms.
James Clay Moltz is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in the Department of National Security Affairs, with a joint appointment in the Space Systems Academic Group. He is also the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency-funded Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD and the Center on Contemporary Conflict, both at NPS. He has published seven books and more than fifty articles and book chapters on nuclear and space security topics. Moltz worked previously at the Monterey Institute of International Studies's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), where he served as the founding editor of the Nonproliferation Review (1993–98), director of programs in the former Soviet Union (1998–2003), and CNS deputy director (2003–07).
James A. Russell is an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, where he teaches courses on US strategy and foreign policy. His latest book is Innovation, Transformation and War: US Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005–2007 (Stanford University Press, 2011).
James Scouras is a fellow at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), where his research focuses on international security, nuclear deterrence, and arms control. Previously he served as chief scientist of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office and held research positions at the Institute for Defense Analyses and the RAND Corporation. He has co-authored (with Stephen Cimbala) A New Nuclear Century (Praeger, 2002) and is currently editing a second book, Assessing the Risk of Nuclear Deterrence Failure. Recent co-authored articles include “The Dark Matter of Terrorism” (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2010) and “The New Triad: Diffusion, Illusion, and Confusion in the Nuclear Mission” (JHUAPL, 2009). Dr. Scouras earned his PhD in physics from the University of Maryland.
Nikolai Sokov is a senior fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Previously, he worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and later Russia, and participated in Strategic Arms Reduction Talks I and II, as well as in a number of summit and ministerial meetings. He has published extensively on international security and arms control—including Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: Examining the Validity of Nuclear Deterrence (2010)—and co-authored and co-edited the first Russian-language college-level textbook on nuclear nonproliferation, Yadernoe Nerasprostranenie, Vol. I-II (PIR Center, 2002).
Christopher P. Twomey is an associate professor with the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, where he focuses on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security. He supports the Departments of Defense and State on a number of Asian security endeavors, consults and publishes widely on strategic issues, and recently authored The Military Lens: Doctrinal Differences and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations (Cornell University Press, 2010).
David S. Yost is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. His publications include Strategic Stability in the Cold War: Lessons for Continuing Challenges (Institut Français des Relations Internationales, 2011), NATO and International Organizations (NATO Defense College, 2007), NATO Transformed: The Alliance's New Roles in International Security (United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998), and The US and Nuclear Deterrence in Europe (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1999). He was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, in 1996–97, and a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College, Rome, in 2004–07.