Mariana Budjeryn

Mariana Budjeryn is a senior research associate at the Managing the Atom (MTA) project within Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is the author of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), which won the 2024 William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award. Formerly, she held appointments as an MTA Stanton nuclear security fellow and a visiting professor at Tufts University and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana is a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research and analytical contributions have appeared in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Nonproliferation Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and in publications of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where she is a fellow with the Global Europe program.