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Jon Wolfsthal
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During his time working with the government, Jon Wolfsthal had his hands in virtually every aspect of U.S. nuclear weaponry, arms control, nonproliferation, and security policy. His previous positions include former Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, senior director at the National Security Council for arms control and nonproliferation, and Special Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden, among others. He is currently senior Advisor to Global Zero where he directs the Nuclear Crisis Group. He is also a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also a columnist at ForeignPolicy.com.
While working with the Obama administration, Wolfsthal helped oversee or advise numerous policies regarding national security. He helped to secure the ratification of the New START arms reduction agreement with Russia in addition to supporting the development of nuclear policy through the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review. A committed public servant, he also held various positions in the 1990s at the U.S. Department of Energy, performing tasks such as an on-the-ground assignment in North Korea in 1995.
Earlier in his career, Wolfsthal was the Deputy Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. He was also a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a deputy director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Wolfsthal is the author of dozens of articles and op-eds on the subjects of nuclear weapons policy, regional proliferation, arms control, and nuclear deterrence. A leading authority on the subjects, he also co-authored the book Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction with Joseph Cirincione.
Wolfsthal graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1988 with a degree in Political Science. He attended a graduate studies program at George Washington University from 1988 to 1993.
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