Dr Naeem Salik served in the Pakistan Army from 1972-2005. He was one of the founding members of Pakistans National Command Authority and served as Director Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs at the Strategic Plans Division from 2001-05. Dr Salik has been a Visiting Fellow at Stimson Center, Brookings Institution, SAIS Johns Hopkins University, and Stanford University. He has taught at the Quaid-i-Azam University (1994-96) and at the National
Defence University (2009-11). His previous publications include Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence (OUP 2009), Learning to Live with the Bomb (OUP 2017), and Nuclear Pakistan-Seeking Security and Stability (University of Lahore Press 2018).