Mariana Budjeryn

Mariana Budjeryn is a senior research associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has held appointments as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the MTA and a visiting professor at Tufts University and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana’s 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 has been a global fellow. She is the author of the book Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (2022, Johns Hopkins University Press).