Franklin Miller is a principal at the Scowcroft Group in Washington, D.C. He dealt extensively with nuclear policy and nuclear arms control issues during his 31-year government career, which included senior positions in the Defense Department and on the National Security Council staff. He was directly in charge of U.S. nuclear deterrence and targeting policy from 1985 to 2001 and also chaired NATO’s senior nuclear policy committee, the High-Level Group, from 1997 to 2001. He is a member of the Strategic Command Advisory Board and served on the Defense Policy Board from 2008 to 2020. He served on the 2008 Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management (Schlesinger Task Force), on the 2013–2014 Congressional Advisory Panel on the Nuclear Security Enterprise (Mies-Augustine Panel), and on the 2022–2023 Congressional Commission on Strategic Posture. He publishes frequently on deterrence and arms control issues. He has been awarded the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, five times and received the Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal in lieu of a sixth award. Mr. Miller has also been awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II, the Norwegian Royal Order of Merit (Grand Officer), the French Legion of Honor (Officer), and Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun (Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Atlantic Council, he received his BA from Williams College and his MPA from Princeton University. He served as a surface warfare officer from 1972 to 1975.
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CSIS-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Conference on Extended Deterrence in Asia
Event — October 16, 2024
PONI Live Debate: U.S. Nuclear Targeting
Event — January 25, 2024
Project Atom 2023
Report by Heather Williams, Kelsey Hartigan, Lachlan MacKenzie, Robert Soofer, Tom Karako, Oriana Skylar Mastro, Franklin Miller, Leonor Tomero, and Jon Wolfsthal — September 29, 2023
Ironclad: Forging a New Future for America’s Alliances
Book by Michael J. Green, Jon B. Alterman, Franklin Miller, Heather A. Conley, Sue Mi Terry, Amy Searight, and Patrick Gerard Buchan — October 18, 2019
Strategic Deterrent Forces: A Foundation for National Security
Event — January 22, 2016
Reliving History: A Retrospective on Trident
Event — November 4, 2015
2015 Consensus Statement on the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference
Report by Clark A. Murdock and Franklin Miller — May 11, 2015
CSIS European Trilateral Track II Nuclear Dialogue: 2014 Consensus Statement
Report by Clark A. Murdock and Franklin Miller — January 14, 2015
Credible Maritime Partners in the 21st Century
Event — July 30, 2014
CSIS European Trilateral Track II Nuclear Dialogue: 2013 Consensus Statement
Report by Clark A. Murdock and Franklin Miller — January 24, 2014