Ms. Woolf is a specialist in nuclear weapons policy in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of CRS at the Library of Congress. Before joining CRS, Ms. Woolf was a member of the Research Staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in Alexandria, Virginia. She also spent a year at the Department of Defense, working on the 1994 Nuclear Posture Review. Ms. Woolf received a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1983 and a B.A. in political science from Stanford University in 1981.