Sharon K. Weiner is Associate Professor at the School of International Service and a visiting researcher with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security.  Her research, teaching, and policy engagement are at the intersection of organizational politics and U.S. national security and her current projects look at the theory, practice, and social construction of deterrence, the politics of U.S. nuclear weapon modernization programs, and larger issues of civil-military relations. She also collaborates with Moritz Kutt (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg) on The Nuclear Biscuit (thenuclearbiscuit.org), a virtual reality experience involving a nuclear crisis. The project analyses how people make high stakes national security decisions under conditions of uncertainty.