Gregory Kulacki

Gregory Kulacki collects information and conducts analysis on security problems in East Asia. He uses that information and analysis to facilitate constructive dialogue between scientists, scholars and legislators from the United States, China, Japan and South Korea who seek solutions to security problems that do not depend on the use or threat to use nuclear weapons. His areas of expertise include Chinese nuclear weapons policy, Chinese space policy, the US-Japan extended nuclear deterrence relationship and the history of East Asian nuclear relations since the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Gregory earned a doctorate degree in political theory and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Maryland in College Park. He also completed graduate certificates in Chinese economic history and international politics at Fudan University in Shanghai and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Before joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he was the Director of External Studies at Pitzer College, an Associate Professor of Government and Politics at Green Mountain College and the China Director for the Council on International Educational Exchange.

Gregory spent a large percentage of his academic and professional careers living and working in East Asia. He is deeply committed to advancing a more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive dialogue on security problems in the region, and believes those problems are more likely to be resolved if the voices of his East Asian colleagues can be heard, respected and more carefully considered by US policy makers.