Bruce Blair
Dr. Bruce G. Blair is co-founder of the Global Zero movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons and a research scholar in the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University.
His principal research interests are in technical and policy steps on the path toward the verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons – global zero.
From 2011 to 2017, Blair served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board. For many years, he was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and served as a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He previously served in the U.S. Air Force as a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and as a support officer for the Airborne Command Post of the Strategic Air Command.
Blair is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues. His books include Strategic Command and Control, winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Award for its contribution to the study of national security; Crisis Stability and Nuclear War; The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War; and Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize for his research on nuclear operations and ways to reduce the risk of inadvertent nuclear war.
Blair also produced many documentary films with security-related themes for CNN, PBS, and theatrical release such as Countdown to Zero. He also created and produced the PBS TV series Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria.
Blair holds a Ph.D. in operations research from Yale University.