Bryan C. Taylor is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Director of its Peace, Conflict, and Security Program. His research interests include the communicative status of nuclear weapons, and the role of mimesis in articulations of media and security. His related research has been published in journals including Annals of the International Communication Association, Communication Theory, Critical Studies of Media Communication, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of the volume Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex.

Hamilton Bean is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver, where he conducts research at the intersection of communication, organization, and security. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. He is the author of No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence.