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Since 2010, Lewis has been the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS in Monterey, California, and an adjunct professor at MIIS. Research topics have included nuclear proliferation and weapons programs of China, North Korea,
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and use of fissile uranium or plutonium in warheads); missiles and the North Korean space program; North Korea's missile press coverage, propaganda, and misinformation. He makes frequent use of open source intelligence from satellite and press/propaganda images and stories.
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to its larger missiles was a dangerous escalation, arguing instead that it was a natural evolution for the Chinese older, larger missile force. He has also studied and written about China's nuclear program as it relates to other powers such as India.
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Lewis has extensively written and spoken, including for media reports, on the weapons tests, development program, and missile programs of North Korea, a country covered by the East Asia Nonproliferation Program.
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Lewis has written for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Policy magazine, Jane's Intelligence Review, Nonproliferation Review and New Scientist among other journals.
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He has worked with graduate students and MIIS and other researchers to develop tools and provide training on tools and technology for open source intelligence.
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One of the countries covered by the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, China has been a focus for Lewis, including his two books and monograph. His books
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On April 27, 2017, Lewis dismissed the notion, promoted by Peter Vincent Pry and others, that North Korea could seriously harm the United States with an
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Lewis has also written on China's conventional weapons program, including antiship and conventional ballistic missile programs and their testing of a
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Lewis has written specifically about North Korea's nuclear materials production; weapons design choices (including nuclear weapon size/
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Lewis has been cited as an expert on nuclear programs of China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and South Africa in the media.
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Iran, and other states, and open-source intelligence performed by the policy community itself (see for example
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From 2007 to 2010, Lewis directed the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the
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The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States
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Lewis is the publisher of Arms Control Wonk blog. He additionally contributes to
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The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age
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The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age
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Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation
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later hosting a podcast by the same name with Aaron Stein.
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Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
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Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
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A Place for One's Mat: China's Space Program, 1956–2003
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Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
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Sang-hun, Choe; Gladstone, Rick (January 25, 2013).
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and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from
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Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Professor
political scientist
Augustana College
BA
University of Maryland
PhD
Nuclear nonproliferation
foreign policy
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
nuclear nonproliferation
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
open-source intelligence
University of Maryland
Augustana College
New America Foundation
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard University
Eliot Higgins
Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation
miniaturization
EMP weapon
MIRVs
hypervelocity weapon system
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States
ISBN
978-1328573926
ISBN
978-1138907140
ISBN

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