Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and educated at the Universities of North Carolina and Chicago, Bill Griffeth has long been interested in such nuclear policy issues as non-proliferation, strategic arms reduction, and nuclear test prohibition. A mathematician by training and a software engineer by choice, Dr. Griffeth taught mathematics and management science at the university level for ten years, worked in telecommunication systems marketing for five years, and developed system and application software for over twenty years before retiring in 2010 to devote himself to writing.