Bruce Blair

Bruce G. Blair is the president of the World Security Institute, a nonprofit organization that he founded to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs. He is the Co-Founder of Global Zero, an international movement seeking the universal elimination of nuclear weapons, and is an executive producer of Countdown to Zero, a feature film about nuclear danger. Blair is an expert on nuclear weapons who has frequently testified before Congress. He has taught security studies as a visiting professor at Yale and Princeton universities. In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize for his work and leadership on de-alerting nuclear forces. Blair was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution from 1987 to 2000. In previous positions, he served as a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and as a Minuteman launch control officer. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Yale University.