Bruce G. Blair, President

Bruce G. Blair is the president of the World Security Institute, a nonprofit organization that he founded in 2000 to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs. In addition, he is the executive producer for Azimuth Media and Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal, and publisher of Washington ProFile (Russian), Washington Observer (Chinese), Washington Prism (Farsi), Taqrir Washington (Arabic) and China Security.  WSI is also the host organization for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Dr. Blair is Co-founder and Co-coordinator of Global Zero, an international non-partisan group of 200 world leaders dedicated to achieving the elimination of nuclear weapons. 

He is an expert on U.S. and Russian security policies, specializing in nuclear forces and command-control systems. He has frequently testified before Congress and has taught security studies as a visiting professor at Yale and Princeton universities. In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize for his research, work and leadership on de-alerting nuclear forces. In 2009, he was selected as a finalist for a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award.

Dr. 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 from 1982 to 1985. From 1970 to 1974, Dr. Blair served in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and support officer for the Strategic Air Command’s Airborne Command Post.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues in such publications as Scientific American, National Interest, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.  His books include Strategic Command and Control (Brookings, 1985), winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Award for its contribution to the study of national security; Crisis Stability and Nuclear War (Oxford, 1988; co-editor); The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War (Brookings, 1993); and Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces (Brookings, 1995). He is currently writing a new book on global nuclear arms control and producing (co-executive producer) a documentary film on nuclear weapons and the idea of their elimination for theatrical release in 2010.

Dr. Blair earned a Ph.D. in operations research at Yale University in 1984. He received his B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in 1970.

He resides in Washington, D.C.

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Phone: 202-797-5116 | Email: bblair@worldsecurityinstitute.org

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