Bradley Graham started in journalism at Yale University, reporting for and then editing the Yale Daily News. Entered the Washington Post's summer internship program in 1974 and assisted in coverage of the congressional impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon. He spent two years in New Jersey reporting on local and state politics for The Trenton Times, owned then by the Post. Bradley returned to the Post in 1978 as a reporter covering national business issues. He moved overseas in late 1979 to become the paper's Central European correspondent based in Bonn. In 1983, he shifted to Warsaw to cover Eastern Europe, and in late 1985, he took up residence in Buenos Aires to report on South American affairs. Bradley returned to the United States in 1988 for an editing assignment. From 1988 to 1990, he served as assistant foreign editor, coordinating day operations in the section of the Post that manages 20 or so overseas bureaus. In late 1990, he became the deputy national editor in charge of the paper's coverage of defense and diplomacy. Bradley resumed reporting in 1994 and spent the next six years covering the Pentagon. He went on leave in the spring of 2000 to write a book about national missile defense entitled "Hit to Kill" and published in November 2001. Returned to the Post in September 2001 to report on military affairs.