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U.S. Plays Down Al-Qaeda Threat Under New Boss | Global Security Newswire

June 17, 2011

His personality always gets in the way," New America Foundation analyst Brian Fishman said. Some analysts and some extremists who know al-Zawahri say he has tried to be less abrasive and to build ties with a wide variety of Islamic militant in an ...

Synthetic Biology Industry Poses Security Challenges, Experts Say | Global Security Newswire

February 9, 2011

"The intentionally malicious use of it is something that is of concern," said New America Foundation fellow Robert Wright, who moderated a panel on the ...

Pentagon Expects Years ff Study Before Making Changes to U.S. Nuclear War Plans | Global Security Newswire

April 8, 2010

Though the Nuclear Posture Review moves to redefine the greatest nuclear threat to the United States as proliferation and terrorism, Russia's arsenal continues to be the primary driver for the size of the U.S. stockpile, according to the New America Foundation's Jeffrey Lewis. Other state-held nuclear forces and military and industrial targets typically represent lesser-included cases covered by U.S. nuclear targeting plans.

New Us-Russian Arms Control Deal Set for Signing | Global Security Newswire

March 26, 2010

The treaty was a major accomplishment for the Obama administration, said Jeffrey Lewis, an analyst with the New America Foundation in Washington ...

Debate Heats Up Over Conventional, Nuclear Deterrence Tradeoffs | Global Security Newswire

March 19, 2010

Today, nuclear strategy expert Jeffrey Lewis goes even further.

"The target set of things that we cannot hold at risk with conventional weapons is very small and maybe empty," Lewis, who heads the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, told Global Security Newswire this week. "The unique value provided by nuclear weapons is largely psychological at this point and hardly one of military utility."...

Obama Team Might Speed Up Disassembly Of Older Nuclear Warheads | Global Security Newswire

March 1, 2010

"I think they are looking for politically expedient ways to demonstrate the commitment to the Prague agenda," said Jeffrey Lewis, who leads the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Pentagon Might Shift Command Responsibility for Combating WMD Spread | Global Security Newswire

February 12, 2010

"I would imagine that [Joint Forces Command] or [Special Operations Command] would do equally well, given the type of operations we are imagining," said Jeffrey Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

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

November 6, 2009
... 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

November 4, 2009
... for a covert [uranium enrichment] program,” said Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Iran's Openness to Nuclear Compromise Debated | Global Security Newswire

October 15, 2009
... they got nothing for that and they're not going to do that again,” said Flynt Leverett, an Iran expert with the New America Foundation. ...
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