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Brad Roberts

Director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Brad Roberts is director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. From April 2009 to March 2013 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy.

In this role, he served as policy director of the Obama administration’s Nuclear Posture Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review. From September 2013 through December 2014, Dr Roberts was a consulting professor and William Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Dr Roberts was a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses and an adjunct professor at George Washington University.

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Redesigning nuclear arms control for new realities

A revival of arms control will not be possible by going back to old approaches. Instead, arms control needs to adapt to new circumstances. A new report from the Center for Security Studies in Zurich sets out a transatlantic ap­proach on how to build a political strategy for arms con­trol in a new landscape.

17 January 2022 | Dr Anna Péczeli, Brad Roberts, Jonas Schneider, Adam Thomson, Oliver Thränert, Heather Williams and Névine Schepers
Global Security
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