Miriam E. John is an American engineer who is a policy advisor and former vice president of Sandia National Laboratories.
[1] In 1978, John joined the Sandia National Laboratory California Division, where she led the Test and Evaluation of nuclear weapons as well as Systems Analysis.
[citation needed] W89/SRAM II, which John worked on, was the last weapon development program in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
[citation needed] After retiring, John joined the advisory board of the United States Department of Defense and the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium.
[4] She encouraged the Department of Defense to make use of big data and new technologies to counter nuclear proliferation.