Senior Lecturer at King’s College – London
Dr Michael S. Goodman is a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
He has published widely in the field of intelligence history and scientific intelligence, including Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2008), and more recently Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence (Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2009). His next book, Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History (Georgetown University Press) will be published in late 2011. His articles have appeared in Intelligence and National Security, the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, CIA Studies in Intelligence, Cold War History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Contemporary British History, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Diplomacy and Statecraft, and International History Review.
He is series editor for ‘Intelligence and Security’ for Hurst/Columbia University Press and is a member of the editorial boards for Intelligence and National Security; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Inteligencia y Seguridad: Revista de análisis y prospective; and Contemporary British History. He is a member of the International Advisory Forum for the Italian Institute of Strategic Studies.
He is currently on secondment to the Cabinet Office where he is the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

m.goodman@strategicstudies.it