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About the Authors
Eben Harrell (eben_harrell@hks.harvard.edu), a Boston-based writer and editor, is an associate
at the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, Harrell worked for four years in the London bureau of
TIME magazine. He has also written for the Economist and Sports Illustrated and worked on
the staff of the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh and the Aspen Times in Colorado. He holds a
B.A. from Princeton University and a Masters in English Literature from the University of St.
Andrews in Scotland.
David E. Hoffman (david.hoffman@washpost.com) is a contributing editor at The Washington
Post. He was a White House correspondent during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and
George H. W. Bush, and subsequently diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem correspondent and
Moscow bureau chief. From 2001-2009, he was foreign editor and assistant managing editor for
foreign news. He is the author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race
and Its Dangerous Legacy (Doubleday, 2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for general
nonfiction, and The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia (PublicAffairs, 2002.)
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Matthew Bunn, Martin Malin, Niko Milonopoulos, Peter E. Davis, Siegfried
S. Hecker, Kenneth Handelman, Andy Weber, Byron Ristvet, Jennifer Elzea, Philip Hemberger,
Rose Gottemoeller, Jamie F. Mannina, Roman Vassilenko, Artur Abubakirov, Trevor Findlay,
David Nusbaum, William Tobey, John Carlson, Scott Kemp, Sharon Wilke, James Smith,
Andrew Facini, and Carl Willis for comments and assistance in the preparation of this paper.
The authors also thank the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation for financial support.