Stephen Budiansky
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| Born |
March 3, 1957 Boston |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.S. chemistry; S.M. applied mathematics |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Harvard University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Website | www |
Stephen Budiansky is an American author who writes primarily about history and science. He is a former national security correspondent, foreign editor, and deputy editor of U.S. News & World Report and former Washington editor of the scientific journal Nature. He was also for many years a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly.
As a free-lance writer, he has published work in the New York Times magazine and op-ed pages, the Washington Post, Men's Journal, Science, The Economist, and many other publications. He is the author of a number of scholarly publications about the history of cryptography, military history, and music.
Stephen Budiansky grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduated from Lexington High School. He studied science and applied mathematics at Yale University and Harvard University. From 1979 to 1982 he was a magazine editor and radio producer at the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.
Budiansky joined the staff of the science journal Nature as Washington correspondent and later served as its Washington editor. In 1985–86 he was a Congressional Fellow at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, where he co-authored a study of advanced conventional weapons technologies as a means for reducing NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence. In 1986 Budiansky joined the staff of U.S. News & World Report, where he worked for twelve years in a variety of writing and editing positions, covering science and national security issues. He ultimately served as the magazine's deputy editor, the No. 3 editorial position.
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