Richard Badalamente writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in a variety of genres, including speculative fiction, science fiction, literary fiction, and espionage, as well as science and technology, nuclear nonproliferation, intelligence analysis, and alternative futures. He is a former US Air Force officer, and was a senior analyst with the National Security Directorate of a US government National Laboratory, where his focus was nuclear nonproliferation, counterintelligence, and counter terrorism.