The Hon. Christopher A. Ford
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With 2024 hours from being over, here’s a handy compilation of my public work product from the last year. As you can see from the list of seven papers or articles and 20 presentations below, it’s been a big year for nuclear weapons policy and arms control topics – but as always there’s a good helping of strategic competition with China. Keep checking New Paradigms Forum for new material as we move into 2025. And Happy New Year, everyone!
Below is an edited and revised version of the remarks Dr. Ford prepared for a CSIS/PONI Workshop on “Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament” at Wilton Park, in the United Kingdom, on December 18, 2024.
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered to the annual so-called “Nukes at Christmas” nonproliferation conference at Wilton Park, United Kingdom, on December 16, 2024.
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on December 13, 2024.
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered to a conference at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on December 11, 2024, organized by the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR).
Below is the text on which Dr. Ford based his briefing to the European Leadership Network on December 10, 2024.
As noted in the previous post here on New Paradigms Forum , the inaugural issue of Defense & Strategic Studies Online (DASSO), the online journal of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University , was published on December 7, 2024. It includes Dr. Ford's essay on how America's adversaries seek to weaponize its moral integrity against it. You can find the whole first issue of DASSO by clicking here , or you can use the button below to download a PDF of Dr. Ford's essay .
The inaugural issue of Defense & Strategic Studies Online (DASSO), the online journal of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University , was published on December 7, 2024. It includes an article co-authored by Dr. Ford and Dr. Alex Memory of the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory . You can find the whole first issue of DASSO by clicking here , or you can use the button below to download a PDF of the Ford/Memory article .
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford drew during his participation in a roundtable workshop at the National Defense University on December 6, 2024.
Below is the prepared text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks to the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on December 4, 2024.
ABOUT DR. FORD
Dr. Ford is Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at at Missouri State University’s Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies, a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the Pharos Foundation at Oxford. He is also the founder and Principal of Two Ravens Policy & Strategy LLC, which furthers national security missions by providing support to both U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers. Dr. Ford is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Foreign Policy Council, and also of the National Security Institute at George Mason University.
From February 2021 through January 2023, Dr. Ford served in various capacities at the MITRE Corporation, most recently as a MITRE Fellow and the founding Director of MITRE’s Center for Strategic Competition. He previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation (2018-2021), for 15 months also exercising the authorities of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and before that as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for WMD and Counterproliferation at the U.S. National Security Council (2017). A Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale, he has also been U.S. Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, a staffer on five different U.S. Senate committees, a think tank scholar, and U.S. Navy intelligence officer.