Mariana Budjeryn

Mariana Budjeryn is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), for which she won the 2024 William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award. Her current research focuses on the evolution of the global nuclear order, nuclear crises, and security of nuclear reactors in armed conflict. Formerly, she held appointments of a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Project on Managing the Atom and a visiting professor at Tufts University and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana is a co-founder and member of the Executive Board of Arms Control Negotiation Academy. She is also a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research and analytical contributions appeared in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Nonproliferation Review, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and in the publications of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where she was a fellow with the Global Europe program.