Jeffrey Lewis: All Publications, Events and Press

Panel Sees No Need for A-Bomb Upgrade | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:00 -0500

Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nuclear specialist at the New America Foundation, a Washington research group, said in a blog posting that the report “should drive a ...

Lugar Introduces Legislation to Extend START Verification Regime | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:58:00 -0500

... telemetry," Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, said on his blog ArmsControlWonk.com. ...

Iran Boosts Output of Uranium Mine, Satellite Images Show | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:00 -0500

... for a covert [uranium enrichment] program,” said Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Omaha Greets an 'Unusual Visitor' from China | Asia Times Online

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:49:00 -0400

... Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Non-proliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation in Washington DC, is the author of Minimum Means of ...

UN Security Council Adopts Nuclear Resolution | San Francisco Chronicle

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:43:00 -0400

Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the New America Foundation, said the UN resolution would represent significant international support for Obama's ...

Obama Pushes for Nuclear Weapons Treaty | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:40:00 -0400

Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the New America Foundation, said the UN resolution would represent significant international support for ...

Obama's UN Disarmament Meeting Highlights US Rifts Over Approach | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:26:00 -0400

... consensus for key details, according to Jeffrey Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ... and more »

Why 'Star Wars' Missile Defence Lives On | New Scientist

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:14:00 -0400

The difference, says Jeffrey Lewis of Washington DC think tank the New America Foundation, is that instead of a plan mainly meant to "make a political point ...

US Official Sees Vocabulary Pitfalls in Outlining Nuclear Objectives | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:10:00 -0400

To Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, the Pentagon's focus on reliability seems misplaced. ...

Pentagon Vetting Could Delay Warhead Modernization Plan | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:12:00 -0400

... in one or more life-extension programs," said Jeffrey Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

China's Space Pioneer Under the Microscope | Asia Times Online

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:55:00 -0400

Jeffrey Lewis is director of the Nuclear Strategy and Non-proliferation Initiative at the Washington, DC-based New America Foundation. Their paper was published as ...

Potential Action on Nuclear Agency Reform Deferred to Year's End | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:31:00 -0400

... '80s that the weapons are NNSA-proof," said Jeffrey Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ... and more »

Korea Trip May Smooth Relations | USA Today

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:33:00 -0400

... and that's a positive development," said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear proliferation expert at the New America Foundation, a think tank. ...

What's Burma Building in There? | ForeignPolicy.com

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:16:00 -0400

This Google Earth image of a mysterious building in Northern Burma posted by the New America Foundation's Jeffrey Lewis on the Arms Control Wonk blog has ...

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention

Stephanie Gunter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0400

A New America Event
07/08/2009 - 3:30pm

Unlike the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) has no mechanism to ensure compliance and verification.

Given the dramatic advances in the life sciences over the past decade, the international community urgently needs to discuss strengthening the BWC.

Officials: Hawaii Anti-Missile Move a Safeguard | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:48:00 -0400

"I don't see any evidence that Hawaii is in more danger now than before the last TD-2 launch," said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation. It took North Korea about 12 days to ...

Nuclear Test Ban Could Become Reality Without North Korea, Experts Say | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:41:00 -0400

If the test ban treaty does not come into force, member states could "agree to act as if it did," Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, told GSN. That would reinforce the existing ...

Who Should Own Our Nuclear Weapons?

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:16:00 -0400

A New America Event
05/28/2009 - 12:15pm

North Korea's Bomb Test Seen as Troubling Progress | The Associated Press

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:20:00 -0400

Jeffrey Lewis, director of Nuclear Strategy Initiative at the New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington, cautioned that "it's really hard to know what the yield actually is." He said it might be as low as 1.5 kilotons. ...

North Korean Nuclear Blast Draws Global Condemnation | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:45:00 -0400

"The simplest hypothesis is that they're trying to build a weaponizable device and they're still not that good at it," said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit group ...