Director
East Asia Nonproliferation Program (EANP)
[email protected]
Monterey, CA
831.647.6616
Background
Before coming to CNS, he was the Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation.
Prior to that, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis was Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Executive Director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a desk officer in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He is also a Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy (CISSM).
Education
Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. in Policy Studies (International Security and Economic Policy) from the University of Maryland and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.
CNS Work
- Patriot Missiles Are Made in America and Fail Everywhere
The evidence is in: the missile defense system that the United States and its allies rely on is a lemon. - Webinar Series: Snooping on North Korea from Monterey
VIDEO: See how CNS experts use language, satellite photos, and 3D models to monitor North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. - Trump is Walking into Kim Jong Un’s Trap
The North Koreans have sought a visit from a sitting president of the U.S. since the Clinton administration. - The Trump-Kim Summit Won’t End Well
This is no way to run nuclear diplomacy. - NBC News Features Innovative Work of CNS Researchers
“Middlebury isn’t a secret department of the CIA, the NSA, – it is part of a liberal arts college. There are no spies here, just a team of researchers working what is known as open source intelligence.” - Putin’s Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile is Bigger than Trump’s
What Putin’s recent remarks about Russia’s nuclear weapons program really mean. - CNS “Sleuths” Featured on PBS Newshour
VIDEO: The open-source analysts show Miles O’Brien how to decode North Korean propaganda. - To North Korea, Trump’s Military Parade Will Look Like Fear, Not Strength
Jeffrey Lewis’s op/ed in the Washington Post - It’s Nuclear War. Do You Know Where Your Leaders Are?
Take a virtual reality tour of the government’s apocalypse digs. Really. - A Modest Proposal for Striking North Korea
A “bloody nose” that would also be “unquestionably hilarious.”
Bibliography
Dr. Lewis is the author of Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (MIT Press, 2007) and publishes ArmsControlWonk.com, the leading blog on disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation. He also contributes a regular column on nuclear issues to Foreignpolicy.com
