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About CDI > Staff > Bruce G. Blair, Ph.D.
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Bruce G. Blair came to the Center for Defense Information in
March, 2000 after 13 years at the Brookings Institution,
where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies
Program.
He received his B.S. in communications from the University of Illinois in 1970. He then entered 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 (1970-1974). He earned an M.S. in management sciences at Yale University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in operations research at Yale in 1984. He also was awarded a Russian Language Institute Fellowship at Yale. Mr. Blair is an expert on the security policies of the United States and the former Soviet Union, specializing in nuclear forces and command-control systems. He also has extensively studied the Russian military-industrial economy, and early in his career was a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He has frequently testified before Congress and has taught security studies as a visiting professor at Yale and Princeton universities. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Prize in 1999. Mr. Blair is the author of numerous books and articles on security issues in such publications as Scientific American, National Interest, New York Times, and 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 also authored a chapter on de-alerting for The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons (Brookings, 1999) and currently is preparing a monograph entitled De-Alerting Strategic Forces (Brookings; 2000).
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