Panelist Biography

Stephen SCHWARTZ is the nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as well as an independent policy analyst, consultant, and editor. An internationally-recognized expert on a wide variety of nuclear weapons issues, particularly their history, deployment, and costs, Schwartz is the editor and co-author of the groundbreaking book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 — the first and only assessment of the comprehensive and cumulative costs of U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons-related programs. He has previously served as the longtime editor of The Nonproliferation Review, as publisher and executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and as a guest scholar and project director at the Brookings Institution. For regular, timely, and insightful comments on nuclear weapons history and nuclear weapons-related news, follow him on Bluesky (@atomicanalyst.bsky.social).