Areas of Expertise: Strategic deterrence (nuclear and non-nuclear); extended deterrence, and assurance; law of war, treaty law, and confidence-building measures
Dr. Justin Anderson is a Senior Fellow at NDU's Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS). His research focuses on deterrence (nuclear and non-nuclear), nuclear forces, and future nuclear arms control agreements and confidence-building measures (CBMs). He also develops and facilitates TTXs and guided scenarios on major power crises, nuclear forces, U.S. and allied CNI, and related topics. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Policy analyst at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), providing research and analysis on arms control, nonproliferation, counter-WMD, and deterrence issues to the United States Air Force (USAF), USSTRATCOM, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the OSD Office of Treaty Compliance.
Dr. Anderson, together with his co-author Lt. Col. James R. McCue, USAF, received the USSTRATCOM 2022 General Larry T. Welch Deterrence Writing Award (Senior Division) for their Spring 2021 Strategic Studies Quarterly article “Deterring, Countering, and Defeating Conventional-Nuclear Integration.” He was also the lead analyst for an SAIC research team that received the 2011 Major General Robert E. Linhard for Outstanding Research from the Air Force Institute of National Security Studies for their paper Qualitative Considerations of Nuclear Forces at Lower Numbers and Implications for Future Arms Control Negotiations.
Dr. Anderson has taught at NDU, the Defense Nuclear Weapons School, the Joint Services Command and Staff College (UK), King’s College London, and Brookes University. He was a 2003 Marshall Scholar and a 2000 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellow. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. in War Studies from King’s College London and a B.A. in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College.
Publications
- A Framework for Biological Weapons Deterrence. NDU INSS CSWMD research project sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (August 2025)
- Anderson, Justin and Paige Price. "Implementing the Chairman’s Guidance on Experiential Learning in PME Classrooms," Joint Force Quarterly 113 (2nd Quarter 2024): 51-59
- Anderson, Justin and Chris Andrews. China’s Theater-range, Dual-Capable Delivery Systems: Integrated Deterrence and Risk Reduction Approaches to Counter a Growing Threat. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Strategic Trends Research Initiative report, HDTRA 1344728 (Fort Belvoir, VA: DTRA, Sep 2023)
- Anderson, Justin “Arms Control Monitoring Regimes,” 216-245, in Arms Control at a Crossroads: Renewal or Demise? Edited by Jeff Larsen and Shane Smith (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023)
- Anderson, Justin, and Sarah Jacobs Gamberini. “Russian and Other (Dis)Information Undermining WMD Arms Control: Considerations for NATO.” NATO Committee on Proliferation. Speech presented to the NATO Committee on Proliferation, July 12, 2022
- Justin Anderson, "Designating North Korean Nuclear Weapons as Proliferation Risks: A Proposal for Forestalling Major Power Conflict in the Event of North Korea's Internal Collapse", Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 35.1 (March 2023): 1-17.
- Justin Anderson, "Allied Assurance and Integrated Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific", Inkstick, 14 March 2022.
- Justin Anderson, "Arms Control in Today's (Dis)Information Environment: Part II," Inkstick, 25 May 2021.
- Justin V. Anderson and Lt Col James McCue, “Deterring, Countering, and Defeating Conventional-Nuclear Integration,” Strategic Studies Quarterly (Spring 2021): 28-60.
- Paul Bernstein, Justin Anderson, Diane DiEuliis, Gerald Epstein, and Amanda Moodie, “Weapons of Mass Destruction, Strategic Deterrence, and Great Power Competition,” 169-181 in Thomas Lynch III, ed., Strategic Assessment 2020: Into a New Era of Great Power Competition (Washington D.C.: NDU Press, 2020)