Chris Andrews is a policy fellow at National Defense University's Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. His research focuses on nuclear deterrence, nuclear forces, and the future of nuclear crisis relationships among strategic competitors. He is especially interested in the effect of China's expanding and modernizing nuclear weapons capabilities on security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and how U.S. strategy and planning should reflect such dynamics.
Before joining CSWMD, Chris was an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, providing subject matter expertise and analysis on WMD threats to the homeland from state and non-state actors, foreign national nuclear weapons programs, and military intelligence related to Indo-Pacific security dynamics to the Department of Homeland Security, USSOCOM, and Defense Intelligence Agency's China Mission Group. He also worked in the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, providing technical support and policy analysis for nuclear nonproliferation and arms control initiatives, international nuclear safeguards engagements, and strategic materials management for U.S. nuclear modernization programs.
Chris has a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee as well as a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in theology from the University of Notre Dame.
Chris Andrews is a policy fellow at National Defense University's Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. His research focuses on nuclear deterrence, nuclear forces, and the future of nuclear crisis relationships among strategic competitors. He is especially interested in the effect of China's expanding and modernizing nuclear weapons capabilities on security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and how U.S. strategy and planning should reflect such dynamics.
Before joining CSWMD, Chris was an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, providing subject matter expertise and analysis on WMD threats to the homeland from state and non-state actors, foreign national nuclear weapons programs, and military intelligence related to Indo-Pacific security dynamics to the Department of Homeland Security, USSOCOM, and Defense Intelligence Agency's China Mission Group. He also worked in the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, providing technical support and policy analysis for nuclear nonproliferation and arms control initiatives, international nuclear safeguards engagements, and strategic materials management for U.S. nuclear modernization programs.
Chris has a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee as well as a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in theology from the University of Notre Dame.