Prior to joining CSDS, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Chicago and Chicago Project on Security and Threats’ first nonproliferation fellow. Dr. Cone received her Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in International Studies from the University of South Carolina. She is broadly interested in U.S. strategies of counter-proliferation and extended deterrence and more specifically interested in the effectiveness of positive inducements in arms control. Her work has been featured in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and on CSPAN.