Margaret E. Kosal’s research explores the relationships among technology, strategy, and governance. Her research focuses on two, often intersecting, areas: reducing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and understanding the role of emerging technologies for security. Her work aims to understand and explain the role of technology and technological diffusion for national security at strategic and operational levels.
Kosal is the author of numerous publications, including Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense (Springer Academic Publishers, 2009); editor of the volume, Technology and the Intelligence Community: Challenges and Advances for the 21st Century Springer, 2018); and editor and contributor to the volumes Disruptive and Game Changing Technologies in Modern Warfare: Development, Use, and Proliferation (Springer, 2019), and Weapons Technology Proliferation: Diplomatic, Information, Military, Economic Approaches to Technological Proliferation (Springer, 2021).
She has held senior national security roles across the U.S. federal government. She has led and coordinated major interagency and international efforts on nonproliferation, nanotechnology, and WMD threat prevention, including roles with the National Security Council, the National Nanotechnology Initiative, NATO, and the U.S. National Academies.