Susan Koch


Susan Koch is an American Nuclear reduction expert. She has five medals from the Department of Defence, A Presidential Meritorious Executive Award and she was one of five people who were given inaugural Department of Defense Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Awards in 2016.

Life

Koch gained her first degree at Mount Holyoke College before she took a masters and doctorate at Harvard University in Political Science.
Koch first worked for the government at the Central Intelligence Agency where she looked at West European politics. In 1982 she took up senior positions in government which she held until 2007. She became an expert in arms reduction and non proliferation.
In 2012 she wrote a report on the American nuclear initiatives in 1991-1992. This was a historic year as in Speptember of 1991 the American strategic bombers that had stood fuelled and crewed since 1957 stood down. Dick Cheney had signed an order that allowed the bombers to stand down from that state of readiness. They did not resume.
with 25th anniversary with four of the Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Award recipients Dr. Gloria Duffy, Laura Holgate, Dr. Susan Koch and Jane Wales in 2016
In 2016 she was one of five people who were given inaugural Department of Defense Nunn-Lugar Trailblazer Award in 2016. The others were Dr. Gloria Duffy, Laura Holgate, Jane Wales and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

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