Hugh Gusterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at MIT. With a BA in modern history from Cambridge University and a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University, he writes about the political culture of nuclear weapons scientists and, more generally, about military culture in the international system. He is the author of Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (University of California Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex (Minnesota, 2004) as well as the co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: People, States and the Production of Insecurity (Minnesota, 1999) and Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (University of California Press, 2005). He has published scholarly articles in Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Alternatives, Social Research, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Science, Technology and Human Values. His op-eds have appeared in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Tikkun, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.