Bruce G. Blair is a senior fellow in the Foreign Studies program at the Brookings institution and the author of numerous books, including The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War. Blair received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1999 for his work demonstrating the dangers of Cold War and post-Cold War nuclear command and control. The award was also granted on the basis of Blair's work on devising credible policy alternatives, including “de-alerting” nuclear weapons and changing nuclear decision-making processes to allow for careful and collective deliberation before any decision to launch could be made. In 2013, Blair joined the research staff at SGS, which is based at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.