Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of six books, including The Bomb, The Insurgents (a Pulitzer Prize Finalist), and The Wizards of Armageddon. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and many other publications.

He was a member of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a special Boston Globe Sunday Magazine on the nuclear arms race. A graduate of Oberlin College with a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T., he has had fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations and New America, as well as a writer-in-residency at the American Academy in Berlin. He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Fred Kaplan will be a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Phelan US Centre from 29 April 2024 to 31 May 2024.