“Are we all going to die in a nuclear war?”
Jeffrey Lewis remembers asking his father that question as a child in the 1980s, when tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were high.
The reality is that humanity has had some close calls over the years.
Professor Jeffrey Lewis’s new podcast—The Reason We’re All Still Here—tells the stories of unsung heroes working to prevent global catastrophes, ranging from nuclear arms races to space trash, tensions with North Korea to crimes on the high seas.
“The stories in this podcast are about people who look at these problems that are too big for governments to solve alone but too hard for governments to get themselves to cooperate on, Lewis recently told Outrider. “And those people come into the story, and they push, and they push, and they push until the world is a little bit safer than it was when they started.”
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation and a professor in the nonproliferation and terrorism studies program.
Read the full interview with Outrider.
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Professor Jeffrey Lewis has been appointed to the International Security Advisory Board, which advises the Secretary of State on critical issues including arms control, nonproliferation, outer space, emerging technologies, and cybersecurity.
The Economist recently explored how open-source intelligence (OSINT) can challenge governments’ monopolies on information, with insight from Middlebury Institute professor Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The article is behind a paywall but you can watch a video interview we conducted with Jeffrey Lewis on OSINT.
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Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and a team of students noticed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Google Maps hours before it was officially announced, the Washington Post reports.
