In Conversation with Brad Roberts

Brad Roberts is director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.  CGSR generates research, analysis, and publications focused on major power rivalry, regional challenges, integrated deterrence, and long-term cooperative and competitive strategies.  From April 2009 to March 2013, Roberts served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy.  Prior to joining the Obama administration, he was a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses and an adjunct professor at George Washington University.  Immediately prior to taking up his current responsibilities in 2015, Roberts was a consulting professor at Stanford University.  His book, The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21^st Century, was awarded a Choice Award as an outstanding academic publication of 2016 by the American Library Association.  In 2021 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun for his contributions to the US-Japan alliance.  He has a BA from Stanford University, an MSc from the London School of Econmics and Political Science, and a PhD from Erasmus University, the Netherlands.