HOME

About CSIS

Project on Nuclear Issues

Project Staff

Director

Clark Murdock, a senior adviser at CSIS, specializes in strategic planning, defense policy, and national security affairs. He joined CSIS in January 2001 and subsequently coauthored (with Michele Flournoy) Revitalizing the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent (CSIS, 2002). He is the principal author of Improving the Practice of National Security Strategy: A New Approach for the Post-Cold War World (CSIS, 2004). And he is the lead investigator of a two-year study on U.S. Defense Department reform entitled Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era (CSIS, 2004). He now leads the Project on Nuclear Issues, building a networked group of young professionals in the nuclear community. In 2000, Dr. Murdock was a visiting professor at the National War College, where he taught courses on military strategy, the national security process, and military innovation. From 1995 to 2000, he served as deputy director of the U.S. Air Force's headquarters planning function, where he helped define a coherent strategic vision for 2020 and institutionalize a new long-range planning process. Prior to joining the air force, Dr. Murdock headed the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; from 1987 to 1993, he served as the senior policy adviser to House Armed Services Committee (HASC) chairman Les Aspin; and prior to HASC, he was employed at the Central Intelligence Agency. He also taught political science for 10 years at the State University of New York at Buffalo, during which time he authored Defense Policy Formation: A Comparative Analysis of the McNamara Era (SUNY, 1974). Dr. Murdock is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Coordinator

Matt Squeri is the Project Coordinator for the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI), where he previously served as a research assistant.  He is responsible for coordinating all PONI conferences, events, and publications.  He also runs the Nuclear Scholars Initiative, a program to bring young scholars to Washington, DC to research and discuss nuclear issues.  Prior to joining CSIS, Mr. Squeri earned a B.A. in political science from Stanford University, where he worked as a teaching assistant for courses on American foreign policy, conducted research on democracy promotion, and coached high school debate.

 

 

 

 

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington DC, 20006 | Tel: 202-887-0200 | Fax: 202-775-3199