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Laura Grego

Laura Grego is a senior scientist and the research director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.


Articles by Laura Grego

Question for the candidates: What is your plan to prevent the next dangerous and expensive nuclear arms race?

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Weapons

‘Oppenheimer’ depicts a man becoming powerful—and irrelevant

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Weapons
Launch of a missile defense interceptor from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.

US Ground-based midcourse missile defense: Expensive and unreliable

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons