Michael Krepon

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Michael Krepon co-founded the Stimson Center in 1989. He served as Stimson’s President and CEO until 2000. He was appointed the University of Virginia’s Diplomat Scholar, where he taught from 2001-2010, while working at Stimson. He was the author and editor of more than 20 books, most recently Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control, and previously Off Ramps from Confrontation in Southern Asia and The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age.  He worked previously in the executive branch and on Capitol Hill. He received the Carnegie Endowment’s award for lifetime achievement in non-governmental work to reduce nuclear dangers in 2015.

To learn more about Michael’s background, read his “My Story.”

Michael Krepon passed away July 16, 2022. Visit the page dedicated to his legacy.

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