Stephen Herzog

Stephen Herzog is Professor of the Practice at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, based on the Vermont campus of Middlebury College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Nonproliferation Review and an Associate of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His past positions include Co-Chair of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group, Senior Researcher in Nuclear Arms Control at ETH Zurich, Verification Specialist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, and Research Associate at the Federation of American Scientists. Herzog earned a PhD from Yale University and has published widely in scholarly and policy journals. He co-edited Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail (MIT Press, 2025). Follow him on X, BlueSky, and LinkedIn.


Articles by Stephen Herzog

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AI is changing biological and nuclear risks; governance must change accordingly

By Stephen Herzog, Allison Berke, Yanliang Pan, William C. Potter, Douglas B. Shaw | Analysis

Poll: Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans don’t support using nuclear weapons against North Korea

By David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
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“What about China?” and the threat to US–Russian nuclear arms control

By David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog | Nuclear Weapons
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“What about China?” and the threat to US–Russian nuclear arms control

By David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog | Nuclear Weapons
US President Donald Trump with his first Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, in 2017

Poll: What the American public likes and hates about Trump’s nuclear policies

By Jonathon Baron, Stephen Herzog | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons