In 2021 and 2022, I served as the nuclear risk editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, an editorially independent publication of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, founded by Albert Einstein during the atomic era. In that role, I worked with high-profile scholars in the United States and beyond to help them distill the policy implications of their research into articles that the public and policymakers could understand. Many of the articles that I solicited, edited, and published were referenced in Congressional hearings and other policymaking settings. Here are some examples of my edited articles:

What’s eating Putin? March 3, 2022. By Rose Gottemoeller, former NATO Deputy Secretary General (2016 – 2019) and former Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the US State Department.

US Defense to its workforce: Nuclear war can be won. February 2, 2022. By Stewart Prager, professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, an affiliated faculty member in the Program on Science and Global Security, and a cofounder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. Also by Alan Kaptanoglu, 2020-2021 Next-Generation Fellow, sponsored by the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction.

Ukraine building a nuclear bomb? Dangerous nonsense. March 9, 2022. By Mariana Budjeryn, Research Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Also by Matthew Bunn, the Co-Principal Investigator of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

Tacit rules to avoid a NATO-Russia war. March 14, 2022. By Steven Pifer, former US ambassador to Ukraine and current William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Read the fine print: Russia’s nuclear weapon use policy. March 10, 2022. By David Holloway, the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies.

Here’s what Western leaders need to remember about Zelensky’s emotional appeals. By Roger Petersen, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT. 

Accusations (and evidence) of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. March 9, 2022. By Norman M. Naimark, McDonnell Professor of History at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

 Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does Russia have in 2022? February 23, 2022. By Hans Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC. Also by Matt Korda, a Senior Research Associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.

US defense to its workforce: Nuclear war can be won. February 2, 2022. By Stewart Prager, Princeton University Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Also by Alan Kaptanoglu, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington. 

Why joint US-South Korean research on plutonium separation raises nuclear proliferation danger. January 13, 2022. By Frank N. von Hippel, co-founder of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, founding co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and a former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology. Also by Jungmin Kang, Member of South Korea’s International Panel on Fissile Materials and former chair of South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission.

Russia threatened a “military-technical” response for unmet demands. What could that mean?. January 18, 2022. By Pavel Podvig, a physicist trained at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, former head of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Research Project, and author of “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces,” which updates information in real time.