Jeffrey G. Lewis
Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Experience
Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Current Affiliation: Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation, Washington, D.C.
March 2007
The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age
Book
By Jeffrey G. Lewis, Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Jeffery Lewis examines patterns in Chinese defense investments, strategic force deployments, and arms control behavior to assess China's nuclear strategy.
January / February 2007
A Crisis of Confidence
Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (Special Issue: Five Minutes to Midnight), issue 1, volume 63
By Jeffrey G. Lewis, Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
November / December 2006
The Bomb in the Backyard
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Foreign Policy
By Jeffrey G. Lewis, Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Peter Zimmerman, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1974-1977
Nearly 3,000 people were killed five years ago when terrorists plowed airplanes into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The terrorist attack was undoubtedly a terrible tragedy. But it could have been much worse. Eight years earlier, aides to Osama bin Laden met with Salah Abdel al-Mobruk, a Sudanese military officer and former government minister who offered to sell weapons-grade uranium to the terrorists for $1.5 million. He proffered up a 3-foot-long cylinder. The al Qaeda representatives agreed to the purchase, because after all, as one of them later said, “It’s easy to kill more people with uranium.”
