Bruce Blair is the co-founder of Global Zero, an international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons and research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has worked at the Pentagon, was staff scientist for the US Congress' Office of Technology Assessment and was also formerly a Minuteman launch control officer.
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