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Matthew Bunn

Matthew Bunn is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of the Practice of Energy, National Security, and Foreign Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Co-Principal Investigator of the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.


Articles by Matthew Bunn

A Russian serviceman patrols the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on May 1, 2022.

The largest danger at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: intentional sabotage

By Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Russia’s “dirty bomb” disinformation, annotated

By Matthew Bunn | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics
(Rusted) Missile silo of a SS-24 missile, Strategic Missile Forces Museum in Ukraine. Credit: Michael. CC BY 3.0. Accessed via Wikipedia.

Ukraine building a nuclear bomb? Dangerous nonsense.

By Mariana Budjeryn, Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
A scene from a Ventura County, California public service video on preparing for and responding to a nuclear terrorism event.

Twenty years after 9/11, terrorists could still go nuclear

By Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
Tsunami damage.

Asking the unasked questions

By Matthew Bunn | Uncategorized

Martin B. Malin, nuclear policy community-builder par excellence

By Matthew Bunn, Steven E. Miller | Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay

The effects of a single terrorist nuclear bomb

By Matthew Bunn, Nickolas Roth | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

The Nuclear Security Summit: Wins, losses, and draws

By Matthew Bunn | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security

Nuclear security: Continuous improvement or dangerous decline?

By Matthew Bunn, Martin B. Malin, Nickolas Roth, William Tobey | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security

A Nuclear Revival Needs New Cooperation

By Matthew Bunn, Martin B. Malin | Uncategorized