Hans Born heads the Democratic Control of Armed Forces's Parliamentary and Legal Programs. He is also an Executive Board Member of the European Research Group of Military and Society and in this capacity he coordinates research in civil-military relations in Europe. Additionally, he is guest lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zurich and at the United Nations Fellowship Programme in Geneva. He is a Faculty Member of the ETH Zurich Master of Advanced Studies on Security Policy and Crisis Management.

Bates Gill is Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Prior to being named the SIPRI director in 2007, Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, from 2002. He has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution, where he was the inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has consulted for a number of multinational corporations and government agencies.

Heiner Hänggi is Assistant Director and Head of Research at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. His recent research and publications focus on the concepts of security sector reform and security governance in post-conflict peacebuilding. Most recently, he has been working with the UN and member states on the development of a UN policy for security sector reform. He is also assisting the Inter-parliamentary Forum on Security Sector Governance (IPF-SSG) in Southeast Asia and the Thai Study Group on Good Governance of the Security Sector.

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"This important book advances public knowledge of the domestic governance of nuclear weapons and weapon programmes. It tells us, to the extent possible given endemic secrecy, about the actors and processes involved in decisions pertaining to them..The standard of analysis is high throughout."--International Affairs