Linton F. Brooks is an independent consultant on national security issues, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a distinguished research fellow at the National Defense University, and an adviser to two Department of Energy (DOE) weapons laboratories. He served from July 2002 to January 2007 as administrator of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, where he was responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program and for DOE's international nuclear nonproliferation programs. Brooks has more than four decades of experience in national security, including serving as assistant director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, chief U.S. negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and director of defense programs and arms control on the National Security Council staff.
Matthew Bunn, an associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, is a former adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His research focuses on measures to prevent nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation, and the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle. He is a winner of the Hans Bethe Award from the Federation of American Scientists and the Joseph A. Burton Forum award for science in the public interest from the American Physical Society, and is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Charles H. Calisher is a professor of microbiology at Colorado State University. Previously, he was chief of the Arbovirus Reference Branch and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Arboviruses in the Americas, Division of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases, at the Centers for Disease Control. He also served in Yugoslavia as project officer in the Special Foreign Currency Program, Arboviruses; as a visiting scientist in the Department of Virology at the University of Turku in Finland; and in other national and international capacities. Calisher has served on many international committees, panels, and journal editorial boards. His papers have been published recently in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, and Emerging Infectious Diseases, among other journals.
David Hafemeister is a science affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has served as the lead technical staff member on nuclear testing in the State Department (1987), Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1990–92), National Academy of Sciences (2000–2002), and Stanford University (2005–2006). He was also the lead technical staff member in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, and the Threshold Test Ban Treaty. He is the author of Physics of Societal Issues (2007, Springer), and received the Leo Szilard Award in 1996 from the American Physical Society.
Cristina Hansell is director of the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She has published many articles on nonproliferation topics and is the co-editor of The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism: A Supply-Side Approach (forthcoming) and of Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament (James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Occasional Paper No. 15, April 2009). A PhD candidate in international affairs at the University of California at San Diego specializing in center-region relations in Russia and China, Hansell received a master's in Russian and Chinese history at the University of Hawaii in 1990 and a bachelor's in Soviet studies from Harvard University in 1987.
Anne Harrington de Santana is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include deterrence theory, U.S. nuclear policy, critical theory, international relations theory, and feminist theory. Her article on nuclear weapons and deconstructing the fetishism of force won the McElvany Prize, the top award of the 2009 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge.
Scott Helfstein is an assistant professor in the Combating Terrorism Center and Department of Social Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is also associated with the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at National Defense University. He received his joint PhD in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan. Recent publications include “Governance of Terror: New Institutionalism and the Evolution of Terrorist Organizations,” in Public Administration Review; “Tradeoffs and Paradoxes: Terrorism, Deterrence, and Nuclear Weapons,” in Studies in Conflict and Terorrism; and “Assessing al-Qa'ida's Learning and Adaptation,” published by the Combating Terrorism Center.
Irvin R. Lindemuth retired in November 2003 after more than thirty-two years with the University of California in the U.S. nuclear weapons physics program, first at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At the time of his retirement, Lindemuth was a special assistant for Russian collaboration in the Office of the Associate Director for Weapons Physics, the team leader for Magnetohydrodynamics and Pulsed Power in the Plasma Physics Group, and a project leader in the High Energy Density Hydrodynamics Program. His areas of expertise include thermonuclear fusion and advanced numerical methods for the computer simulation of fusion plasmas and related pulsed-power technology. He has published numerous scientific papers in refereed journals and proceedings of major international conferences.
Joshua Masters holds a bachelor of laws (honors) from the University of Adelaide in Australia and a bachelor of economics in econometrics from the University of New England, also in Australia. He has clerked for Justice John Mansfield in the Federal Court of Australia and interned at the Constitutional Litigation Unit of the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. He recently graduated with an LL.M. in international legal studies at the New York University School of Law. His article won the outstanding student essay prize in the 2009 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge.
Kaegan McGrath is a research associate in the International Organizations and Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His research interests include U.S. nonproliferation and foreign policy, China's defense and foreign policy, and matters related to nuclear testing and test ban initiatives. He has authored several articles examining issues related to the CTBT, including Issues Briefs for the Nuclear Threat Initiative and a CNS Feature Story.
Paul Meyer is a career foreign service officer whose last diplomatic assignment was as Canada's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. In that capacity he led Canadian delegations to the 2005 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to the 2004 and 2007 NPT Preparatory Committee meetings, as well as to the annual sessions of the UN General Assembly's First (Disarmament) Committee. He currently serves as director-general of the Security and Intelligence Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, in Ottawa.
Judy Pasternak is a Washington, DC–based writer. She is working on a book about the toxic legacy of uranium mining in Navajo country. Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the Navajos, which will be published by Free Press in 2010, recently won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for literary nonfiction. Pasternak has also served as a consultant for the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. She spent twenty-four years as a national correspondent and enterprise reporter for the Los Angeles Times, winning numerous prizes for environmental and investigative journalism.
Nikita Perfilyev is a Fulbright fellow at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he is studying toward a master's degree in international policy studies and a certificate in nonproliferation studies. He is a member of the Project on Nuclear Issues Nuclear Scholars Initiative run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In 2007–2008 Perfilyev worked for the Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) in Moscow as a researcher and editor. During the fall of 2006, he was an intern at CSIS in Washington, DC, under the sponsorship of Washington Group International. His articles have been published in Security Index and on the CSIS website. He graduated with distinction from Tomsk State University in 2007.
Nina Tannenwald is an associate research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of international institutions and norms in security, weapons of mass destruction, and the laws of war and human rights. Her book, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (2007, Cambridge), was awarded the 2009 Lepgold Book Prize from Georgetown University.
Jonathan B. Tucker is a senior fellow in the Washington, DC office of the James Mart in Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where he specializes in chemical and biological weapons issues. Before joining CNS in 1996, he worked at the State Department, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Tucker's books include Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (2001, Grove/Atlantic) and War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al Qaeda (2006, Pantheon Books). In 2006–2007, he was a Fulbright senior scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, and in 2008 he was a professional staff member with the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.