Samuel Lair is a Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), where he works on the New Tools Team. At CNS he manages and conducts open-source intelligence investigations into adversary nuclear and missile programs using satellite imagery, state and social media, and archival sources. In addition to his open-source work, Sam writes about the relationship between domestic politics, bureaucratic politics, and missile defense technology during the Cold War. Sam holds a M.A. with Honors in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a B.A. with Honors in History and Political Science from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Eliana Johns is a senior research associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where she researches the status and trends of global nuclear forces and the role of nuclear weapons. Johns is also a master’s student in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she focuses on the intersection of technology and security. Previously, Johns was a Project Associate for DPRK Counterproliferation at CRDF Global, where she worked on WMD nonproliferation initiatives to curb North Korea’s ability to gain revenue to build its weapons programs. Johns holds a bachelor’s degree in political science with minors in music and Korean from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Eliana has also completed a Critical Language Scholarship program for Korean through the U.S. Department of State.

Frank Kuhn is a Doctoral Researcher at PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany. His dissertation explores the motives of high-level U.S. decisionmakers to engage in strategic arms reductions talks with the Soviet Union and Russia, and which role the concept of strategic stability played in shaping U.S. nuclear arms control policy. He is also the project coordinator for the Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR) at PRIF, which analyzes emerging technologies and developments in the natural and technical sciences from an interdisciplinary perspective. Frank’s research interests include arms control and nonproliferation, nuclear deterrence, military technology, and military strategy. He holds an M.A. in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, and a B.A. in Political Science – also from Goethe University Frankfurt.