Mushtaq Ahmad is in charge of the Radioactive Products Group at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, which he joined in 1977. He has worked in radioisotope and radiopharmaceutical production and quality control. He is also Pakistan's chief scientific investigator for the International Atomic Energy Agency's Coordinated Research Project on developing techniques for small-scale indigenous production of molybdenum-99. Ahmad earned a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Karachi and a Ph.D. from Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. He has published sixty-five articles regarding radioisotopes, labeled compounds, and radiopharmaceuticals.
Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist and author. For thirty-five years, he was a staff writer for the New Yorker. He has written some twenty books and dozens of technical papers. His most recent books are Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element (2007) and Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know (2007). He has won several awards for his writing. His forthcoming book, Quantum Leaps, will be published by the Harvard University Press.
Lewis A. Dunn is a senior vice president of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). At SAIC, he has undertaken studies on preventing proliferation and managing its consequences; future threat reduction and arms control initiatives; and deterrence planning and requirements. He served as assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1983 to 1987 (appointed by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the U.S. Senate with the rank of assistant secretary) and as ambassador to the 1985 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). He continues to be called on by various U.S. government organizations to provide advice on preparations for the 2010 NPT Review Conference. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.
Jason S. Enia is a Ph.D. candidate in politics and international relations at the University of Southern California and a lecturer in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. His research explores the particular ways in which political and economic institutions create incentives for either peace or conflict. His dissertation, “Shaking the Foundations of Violent Civil Conflict: Institutions, Disasters, and the Political Economies of State-Rebel Interaction,” analyzes the relationship between institutional quality and domestic violence in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Jeffrey Fields is a political-military analyst at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). His work focuses on the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology, the near-term strategic landscape, and U.S. foreign and defense policy. Prior to arriving at DTRA, he was a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where he wrote profiles of nuclear and ballistic missile programs in Iraq, Argentina, and South Africa, among other countries. He is currently completing a book project, Adversaries and Statecraft: Explaining U.S. Foreign Policy Choices. Fields holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California.
Jeffrey G. Lewis is director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation and publishes the leading blog on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, ArmsControlWonk.com. He is the author of Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (2007). Before joining the New America Foundation, Lewis was executive director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in policy studies (international security and economic policy) from the University of Maryland and his bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Richard Moyes is policy and research director at Landmine Action and co-chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition. He received an M.Phil in social anthropology from Cambridge University in 1995. His recent reports include Cluster Munitions in Kosovo: Analysis of Use, Contamination and Casualties (2007), Anti-Vehicle Mines: Understanding the Impact and Managing the Risk (2006), Cluster Munitions in Lebanon (2005), and Tampering: Deliberate Handling and Use of Live Ordnance in Cambodia (2004). His report Explosive Violence, which looks at the humanitarian, moral, and legal problems of explosive weapons, is forthcoming.
Robert S. Norris is senior research associate at the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man (2002). He is coauthor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “Nuclear Notebook” and has published dozens of articles in publications including Arms Control Today, Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post, among others.
Brian Rappert is an associate professor of science, technology, and public affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Anglia University in 1999. His recent books include Experimental Secrets: International Security, Codes, and the Future of Research (2009), Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity (2006), Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits (2007), and Technology and Security (edited, 2007).
Adam Scheinman is assistant deputy administrator for nonproliferation and international security in the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), where he has responsibility for nonproliferation policy, arms control, and regional security programs. Prior to this, he held a variety of positions in the Department of Energy, including policy director in the NNSA Office of Nonproliferation and International Security, director of the NNSA Export Control Office, special assistant to the assistant secretary of energy for nonproliferation and national security, and foreign affairs specialist in the International Policy and Analysis Division. Before joining government, Scheinman worked at nongovernmental organizations specializing in nuclear nonproliferation and arms control. He earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell and his master's from George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs.
Sharon K. Weiner is an assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University. Her areas of expertise include national security and the interface between institutional design, bureaucratic politics, and U.S. defense and foreign policy. She is a former research associate with the Woodrow Wilson School's Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, and in 2001 she received a Scholar of Vision award from the Carnegie Corporation for research and writing that analyzes joint U.S.-Russian efforts to control the proliferation of weapons experts and materials from the former Soviet nuclear and biological weapons complexes. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT.
Leonard Weiss is affiliated with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He is also a consultant to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an advisory board member of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. He has worked on nonproliferation and nuclear safety issues for more than thirty years, many of them as the staff director of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and its Subcommittee on Energy and Nuclear Proliferation. He was the chief architect of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 and the legislation that created the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in 1988. He has provided testimony to Congress on nonproliferation issues, and his publications have appeared in various professional journals.
Ward Wilson has spent more than a quarter-century ruminating on how to prevent nuclear war; he writes regularly at RethinkingNuclearWeapons.org. His writing has also appeared in International Security, Dissent, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. In 2007, his reevaluation of the bombing of Hiroshima “effectively demolished the generally accepted myth that the atomic bombings brought World War II to an end” (Freeman Dyson). He has presented his conclusions about Hiroshima at Los Alamos, the Naval War College, the United Nations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Stimson Center, the Monterey Institute Institute of International Studies, Stanford University, and Princeton University. His essay, “The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence,” was the grand prize–winner of the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest.
Peter D. Zimmerman, a nuclear physicist by training, is emeritus professor of science & security at King's College London and a former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He also served as the science advisor for arms control in the U.S. State Department. He has held positions as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.