Institute for National Strategic Studies

at the National Defense University

Bunn

Ms. M. Elaine Bunn (CSR)
Distinguished Research Fellow
Future Strategic Concepts Program


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M. Elaine Bunn

Distinguished Research Fellow, Elaine Bunn, directs INSS’ Future Strategic Concepts Program.  Before joining INSS in 2000, she was a senior executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she worked for twenty years in international security policy.  She served as Principal Director, Nuclear Forces and Missile Defense Policy, from 1993-98. During that time, she was executive director of the 1994 Nuclear Posture Review. She was a visiting fellow at the RAND Corporation, 1998-2000; from February through June 2001, she co-chaired a panel for the Secretary of Defense, framing issues for the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review. 

Her publications include a number of articles and book chapters on strategic planning, nuclear policy, missile defense, preemption and deterrence.