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About the Authors
Mr. Dennis M. Gormley is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Matthew B. Ridgway
Center for International Security Studies and a faculty member in the Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Gormley served as a
Senior Vice President for 20 years with Pacific-Sierra Research, where he headed the firm’s
east coast operations and served on its board of directors. He was twice affiliated with the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London—as a Research Associate in
1984 and as a Consulting Senior Fellow in 2002. He was a Senior Fellow at the Monterey
Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies from 2003 to 2010.
Mr. Gormley received a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Connecticut
in 1965 and 1966, respectively, and attended Officer Candidate School at Aberdeen
Proving Grounds, Maryland, where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the
U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, serving on Active duty from 1966 to 1969. Before joining
Pacific-Sierra Research in 1979, he served in the U.S. Intelligence Community for 10
years, including 7 years as Head of Foreign Intelligence at the U.S. Army’s Harry Diamond
Laboratories, Washington, DC.
Mr. Gormley has chaired or served on numerous Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community advisory panels—including
a panel assisting the Deputy Director of National Intelligence (Analysis)
in planning and implementing the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations for improving
intelligence integration. Mr. Gormley currently serves as one of 21 commissioners on a
3-year nongovernmental Commission on Challenges to Deep Cuts in Nuclear Weapons, a
German, U.S., and Russian study project to analyze the next steps in nuclear disarmament.
He also is a member of American Security Project’s Consensus for American Security,
and a member of the Nuclear Security Working Group, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation
of New York. He has frequently furnished expert testimony to Congress and
has served as a consultant to, among many others, Sandia National Laboratories, RAND
Corporation, and Brookings Institution.
Mr. Gormley is the author of over 100 publications, including the books Missile
Contagion: Cruise Missile Proliferation and the Threat to International Security (Praeger,
2008) and Dealing with the Threat of Cruise Missiles (Oxford University Press for IISS,
2001). His journal articles have appeared in Survival, Washington Quarterly, Arms Control
Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nonproliferation Review, Orbis, and many others.
Among his publications are three commissioned monographs in the Proliferation Papers
series published by the Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri) in Paris.
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