Loring Wirbel is editor in chief of Smartbook Blog and a member of Citizens for Peace in Space. He has been active in anti-militarism and civil liberties issues for more than 30 years. Loring is author of the book Star Wars: U.S. Tools of Space Supremacy.
Holly Burkhalter serves as Vice President of Government Relations for International Justice Mission. She is also the coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and the advocacy director of Physicians for Human Rights in Washington, DC.
Ira Shorr is a retired expert on U.S. nuclear policy and the health and environmental effects of nuclear materials. He is the former National Field Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Mark Sedra is an academic policy analyst from Waterloo, Canada. He is a research scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, which serves as a resource for journalists, policymakers, and organizations focused on issues of weapons proliferation, military spending, and alternative approaches to...
Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.
BC Organizer, The Council of Canadians “‘Security Exception’ and Arms Trade,” Foreign Policy In Focus (April 2000); “The WTO and the Global War System,” Conference Proceedings (November 1999).
Joe Volk
 served for 20 years as the executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobby in the public interest that fields the largest team of registered lobbyists for peace in Washington.
Robert L. Borosage is the President of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America’s Future. He also is a board member at the Institute for Policy Studies.
