Presenting China’s Nuclear Program: Chris Yeaw
Associate Executive Director for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear ProgramsNational Strategic Research Institute, U.S. Strategic Command’s University Affiliated Research Center (UARC)
Dr. Yeaw began his career in 1996 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center as a lead missile defense engineer, having received his PhD in nuclear engineering and engineering physics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Next, he served as a lead nuclear weapons technical intelligence officer with Defense Intelligence Agency. After his tenure at DIA, Dr. Yeaw served as the Principal Advisor for Nuclear Matters to the Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance, during which time he was a member of the first U.S. special diplomatic mission to Libya and led the initiation of the dismantlement of the Libyan covert nuclear weapons program. He then served as the Chief Scientist of the Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence. Finally, prior to his AFGSC assignment, he was an Associate Professor and Director of the Mahan Scholars Research Program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also founded the STRATCOM-sponsored Deterrence & Escalation Game and Review (DEGRE) nuclear war game series.