Nuclear Security Working Group

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Nuclear Security Working Group is based in Washington, D.C.

"We work behind the scenes to provide policymakers and NGOs with the expertise they need to make informed decisions on global nuclear issues. Our leadership team includes senior foreign policy experts, military officials, and leading scholars in the field of nuclear security."

Members

• Dr. James M. Acton, Co-Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Dr. James Acton is Co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a prolific writer in the field of nuclear policy, and was a recipient of the competitive Carnegie Corporation of New York grant on New Technologies and the Nuclear Threat that funds his ongoing research into the escalation implications of advanced conventional weapons.

• Ambassador Susan Burk, Former Special Representative to the President of the United States for Nuclear Nonproliferation
• Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr.
• Palmer Coates
• Brigadier General (Ret.) Bob Barnes, Senior Policy Advisor, Center for Climate and Security
• Lieutenant General (Ret.) John Castellaw, President, Crockett Policy Institute
• Simin Yazdgerdi Curtis, President, CEO, Founder, American Middle East Institute
• Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Hon. Elbridge Colby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, Department of Defense
• Dr. Shahram Chubin, Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Professor Antonia Chayes, Professor, Tufts University
• Dr. Dan Caldwell, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Pepperdine University
• Dr. Daniel Chiu, Director of Joint Advanced Warfighting Division, Institute for Defense Analyses
• Ms. Madelyn Creedon, Chair, NSWG
• Dr. Peter Dombrowski, Professor of Strategy, Naval War College
• Michael Eisenstadt, Kahn Fellow; Director, Military & Security Studies Program, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Ryan Evans, CEO and Editor in Chief, War on the Rocks
• Michael Elliott, National Security Consultant
• Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, IISS-Americas
• Dr. Steve Fetter, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
• Mr. Francesco Femia "Frank", Co-Founder & President, Center for Climate and Security
• Professor Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics, Brandeis
• Mr. Dennis M. Gormley, Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
• Professor Charles L. Glaser, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University
• John Allen Gay, Executive Director, John Quincy Adams Society
• Dr. Francis J. Gavin, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University
• Seth Grae, CEO, Lightbridge Corporation
• Colonel (Ret.) Paul Hughes, Special Advisor and the Director of Overseas Safety and Security, U.S. Institute of Peace
• Mr. Peter Huessy, Senior Defense Consultant, Air Force Association
• Dr. Kathleen Hicks, Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Ms. Rebecca Hersman, PONI Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Ambassador Laura S. H. Holgate, Vice President for Materials Risk Management, Nuclear Threat Initiative
• Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dirk Jameson, Retired, U.S. Air Force
• Lieutenant General (Ret.) Frank G. Klotz, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, National Nuclear Security Administration
• Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, Senior Director, Regional Security Programs, Center for the National Interest
• Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
• Dr. Susan J. Koch, Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University
• General (Ret.) C. Robert Kehler “Bob”, Former commander of STRATCOM
• Dr. David Kay, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
• Dr. Colin Kahl, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation
• Dr. Patricia M. Lewis, Research Director for International Security, Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs
• Dr. Austin Long, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
• Dr. Robert Litwak, Senior Vice President and Director of International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Dr. Keir Lieber, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
• Dr. Alexander T. J. Lennon, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Quarterly
• Dr. Edward Levine, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Ret.)
• Mr. Brett B. Lambert, Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Northrop Grumman
• Ms. Hannah Lloyd-Barker, Program Manager, NSWG
• Colonel (Ret.) Mark Mykleby, Co-Director of the Strategic Innovation Lab, Case Western Reserve University,
• Hon. Robert J. Murray, Professor of Practice, Georgetown University
• Dr. Jim Miller, Senior Fellow, Adaptive Strategies, LLC
• Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken, President, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
• Kenneth Myers, Senior Vice President for Defense and Security, PAE National, Security Solutions (NSS)
• Dr. Vipin Narang, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ambassador Steven Pifer, Director, Arms Control, Brookings Institution
• Dr. Christopher Preble, Vice President for defense and foreign policy studies, CATO Institute
• Dr. Barry R. Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dr. Alan Platt, Foreign Policy Institute Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
• Ms. Joan Rohlfing, President & COO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
• Dr. Or Rabinowitz (Ori), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Mr. Frank A. Rose, Senior Fellow, Security and Strategy, Brookings Institution
• Hon. Walter B. Slocombe, Senior Counsel, Caplin & Drysdale
• Dr. Douglas B. Shaw, Senior Associate Provost for International Strategy, George Washington University
• Dr. Jacquelyn G. Schneider, Assistant Professor, Naval War College
• Dr. Elizabeth N. Saunders, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
• Dr. Scott D. Sagan, Senior Fellow, Stanford University
• Dr. Caitlin Talmadge, Associate Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
• Dr. Jane Vaynman, Assistant Professor, Temple University
• Dr. Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy International Law & Organizations, Johns Hopkins University
• Ms. Robin Wright, Contributor, New Yorker
• Ms. Caitlin Werrell, Co-Founder & President, Center for Climate and Security
• Major General (Ret.) Jasper Welch, Retired, U.S. Air Force
• Dr. Heather Williams, Defence Studies Department and Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), King's College London
• Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein (USAF, Ret.)
• Dr. Dov S. Zakheim, Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Foreign Policy Research Institute
• Dr. Amy Zegart, Co-Director and Senior Fellow, CISAC, Stanford University