Mailing address
One Brattle Square 523
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
79 John F. Kennedy St., Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Andrew Newman
Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-4680
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: andrew_newman@ksg.harvard.edu
Experience
Andrew Newman is a Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom. His research interests include nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and the future of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Before coming to the Kennedy School in August 2008, he was Assistant Counselor for Nuclear Science and Technology at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Previously, Andrew worked with the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner, Victorian Department of Justice, Australia, where he co-wrote a report on Victoria’s capacity to respond to a major, September 11–type emergency. In 2001, he worked with the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council (now the Partnership for Global Security) in Washington, D.C.
He has taught at Monash University and the University of Melbourne in Australia and in 2004 was a short-term visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C.
He co-edited Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security (Routledge, 2006) and has published in The Nonproliferation Review, Contemporary Security Policy, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Global Change, Peace and Security, and The Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Andrew holds a Ph.D. from Monash University. His thesis evaluated the role of Congress in the formulation and implementation of U.S. programs designed to prevent ‘leakage’ of nuclear weapons, materials, and expertise from the former Soviet Union.
June 2009
Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas: A 2009 Update
Report
By Andrew Newman, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project
Andrew Newman and Matthew Bunn assess the Obama administration's fiscal year 2010 budget request for programs to improve controls over nuclear weapons, materials, and expertise worldwide. Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas: A 2009 Update concludes that the request is a "steady as you go" budget and recommends that Congress and the administration work together to establish a $500 million contingency fund that could be used flexibly on a range of nuclear security programs.
Spring 2009
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Agenda for the President's Opening Weeks in Office
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and Andrew Newman, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
President Barack Obama took office in a world where the danger that terrorists could get and use a nuclear bomb remains very real. He should take several key steps in the opening weeks of his administration:This article is adapted from "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: An Agenda for the Next President" (November 2008) by Matthew Bunn and Andrew Newman. For full text, see: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18673.
November 18, 2008
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: An Agenda for the Next President
Report
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and Andrew Newman, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn and Andrew Newman outline specific steps that President-elect Obama should take to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism to a fraction of its current level during his first term in office. This paper summarizes the recommendations in Securing the Bomb 2008 and provides additional detail on organizing the U.S. government to prevent nuclear terrorism and on steps that should be taken during the transition and the opening weeks of the new administration.
November 2008
"Preventing Nuclear Terrorism"
Book Chapter
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and Andrew Newman, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn and Andrew Newman contributed the chapter "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism," to the 2009 National Security and Nonproliferation Briefing Book, published by the Peace and Security Initiative.
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October 7, 2008
"A Working Relationship"
Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and Andrew Newman, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"Today, the United States and Europe must respond to Russia's military behavior in Georgia and elsewhere in its former empire. But they must also maintain a working relationship with Russia to continue vital cooperation between Russian and U.S. experts to reduce nuclear weapons and keep them out of terrorists' hands....Preventing nuclear terrorism must be a top priority of U.S. national security policy, and securing global stockpiles of nuclear weapons and materials is the most effective way to achieve this."
