Hugh Gusterson is a professor of anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, he has conducted fieldwork among nuclear weapons scientists and anti-nuclear activists. He writes about nuclear culture, drone warfare, counterinsurgency, international security, and ethics. His books include Drone (2016), People of the Bomb (2004), and Nuclear Rites (1996). Gusterson is a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and his essays have appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Science, Nature, and New Scientist. He is also president of the American Ethnological Society.