Ashley Bramucci is an Assistant Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CSWMD) in Washington, D.C., where she previously served as a Research Trainee. Her interests include strategic deterrence and nuclear forensics. Prior to joining CSWMD, she worked as a Research Assistant at the National Intelligence University’s Center for Designing Intelligence Research (CDIR) where she evaluated current and emerging critical intelligence problems for consumption by the intelligence community, academia, and the U.S. national security establishment.
She earned an M.A. at American University’s School of International Studies studying United States Foreign Policy with a concentration in National Security. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Criminal Justice from Rutgers University where she served as an Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience.