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Matthew Bunn
Matthew Bunn is Assistant Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
From 1994-1996, while on the staff of the National Academy of Sciences, Bunn served as an adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he took part in a wide range of U.S.-Russian negotiations relating to the management of weapons-usable nuclear materials, including security and accounting for nuclear materials, cutting off production of weapons plutonium, mutual declaration and inspection of nuclear material stockpiles, and means to reduce excess plutonium stocks.
He was the staff director for the classified study of security for nuclear materials conducted by the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, presented to President Clinton on May 1, 1995, and for the recent report to Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin of the U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium.
Previously, Bunn directed the study Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on International Security and Arms Control, published in two volumes in January 1994 and July 1995. From 1990-1992, Bunn was Editor of Arms Control Today, a monthly journal published by the Arms Control Association, where Bunn served as Associate Director, having previously served as Senior Policy Analyst from 1986-1990.
In addition to the recent studies, Bunn is the author of a book, Foundation for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security, several book chapters, and dozens of articles in magazines and newspapers including Scientific American, Science, Technology Review, and The Washington Post. Bunn received his bachelors' and masters' degrees in political science, specializing in defense and arms control, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.
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