Jonathan B. Tucker Jonathan B. Tucker is a Senior Fellow specializing in biological and chemical weapons issues in the Washington, DC, office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He joined the CNS main office in Monterey, CA, in March 1996 as the founding director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program and moved in 2000 to the CNS Washington office.
Before coming to CNS, Dr. Tucker worked on arms control and nonproliferation issues at the State Department, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. From 1993 to 1995, he served on the U.S. delegation to the Preparatory Commission for the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague, and in February 1995 he was a United Nations biological weapons inspector in Iraq. From May to December 2008, he was a professional staff member for the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism. Dr. Tucker’s books include War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al Qaeda (Pantheon, 2006); Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (Grove/Atlantic, 2001); and, as editor, Toxic Terror: Assessing the Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (MIT Press, 2000). Dr. Tucker holds a BS in biology cum laude from Yale University and a PhD in political science (with a concentration in defense and arms control studies) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Academy in Berlin, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
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