Jonathan Tucker (1954-2011)

Jonathan B. Tucker managed the Biosecurity Education Project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC. Previously he spent nearly 15 years at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, initially as founding director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program and then as a senior fellow. Before joining CNS he worked at the State Department, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, where he served on the US delegation to the Chemical Weapons Convention preparatory commission in The Hague. In 1995, he was a member of a UN biological weapons inspection team in Baghdad, Iraq. Tucker held a BS in biology from Yale and a PhD in political science from M.I.T. He had been a fellow at the Hoover Institution, the US Institute of Peace, and the American Academy in Berlin, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. His books include Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox and War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda, and, as editor, Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons.