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• Co-author with Andy Weber, The Pentagon Can Revolutionize Biodefense for 2% of its Proposed Spending Increase," March 2026.
• Co-author with Andy Weber, Biodefense is core defense, Defense News, Jan 7, 2026.
• Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, co-editor for summer 2025 Special Issue on Deterrence by Denial to Address Biological Threats; and co-author of article, “The Evolving US Approach to Biological Deterrence and Risk Reduction: Implications for the Alliance with Japan.” 
• Urgent Need to Raise Global Standards for Handling Pandemic-Potential Pathogens, Texas A&M, October 2025.
• Co-author with Jackson du Pont, “Biosecurity and the Republic of Georgia: Maintaining Progress in an Uncertain Future,” Council on Strategic Risks, March 12, 2025.
• Co-author with John Moulton and Dan Regan, “Welcome Elements of the New US Policy Update on Dual Use Research of Concern and Pandemic-Potential Pathogens,” Council on Strategic Risks, May 7, 2024.
• Co-author with Andy Weber, “Lessons from Kazakhstan for 2024: On the Front Lines of Nuclear and Biological Risks,” Council on Strategic Risks, January 2024.
• Co-author with Andy Weber, “Prospects for Operationalizing UN Charter Article 26,” in Richard Falk, Augusto Lopez-Claros, eds., Global Governance and International Cooperation (London: Routledge India, 2024).
• "Interview: AI And the End of the World," CNBC Technology Executive Council, December 2023. 
• Author, “10 Years of the Syria Chemical Weapons Challenge,” Council on Strategic Risks, October 4, 2023.
• Co-author with Shannon Green and John Moulton, “Fulfilling the Humane Promise of the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Lawfare, August 18, 2023. 
• Catherine Dill, Jackson du Pont, Andrew Facini, John Moulton, Christine Parthemore, and Sahil V. Shah, “Ending Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Brief History And A Path Forward,” Council on Strategic Risks, August 2023. 
• With John Gower, Keynote Remarks at the 24th International Conference on Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation, London 2022. 
• Co-author with Dr. Natasha Bajema, Dr. Ryan Duncombe, Andrea Rezzonico, William Beaver, Dr. Yong-Bee Lim, and Andy Weber, “Understanding the Threat of Biological Weapons in a World With COVID-19,” Council on Strategic Risks, February 2022.
• Co-author with William Beaver, Dr. Yong-Bee Lim, Lillian Parr, and Andrew Weber, “A Handbook for Ending Catastrophic Biological Risks,” Council on Strategic Risks, December 2021. 
• Co-author with Andy Weber, “A Deterrence By Denial Strategy For Addressing Biological Weapons,” War on the Rocks, September 2021.
• Co-author with Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE, “North Korea’s wake-up call on cruise missile risks,” The Hill, September 2021.
  Co-author with Dr. Natasha E. Bajema and William Beaver, “Toward a Global Pathogen Early Warning System,” Council on Strategic Risks, July 2021.
• Co-author with Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE, “A Practical Strategy for Nuclear Risk Reduction and Disarmament: Fulfilling the Code of Nuclear Responsibility,” Council on Strategic Risks, April 2021.
• Co-author with Anup Singh and Andy Weber, “Critical Steps in Preventing Future Pandemics,” Council on Strategic Risks, February 2021. 
• Co-author with Andy Weber: “COVID-19 may be teaching the world a dangerous lesson: Diseases can be ideal weapons,” Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2020.
• Author: “Weapons Of Mass Destruction: The State of Global Governance Amid Rising Threats & Emerging Opportunities,” Council on Strategic Risks, October 2019​.Co-author (with Anup Singh & Andy Weber): “Making Bioweapons Obsolete: A Summary of Workshop Discussions,” CSR and Sandia National Laboratories February 2020.
• "Nuclear and Climate Connections: The History, Evolution, and Implications," chapter in Bård Nikolas Vik Steen and Olav Njølstad, eds., Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Assessment (Routledge, 2019).
• With Andy Weber, The Future of Arms Control is Global: Reconsidering Nuclear Issues in the Indo-Pacific, War on the Rocks, February 8, 2019.
• With Andy Weber, The nuclear crisis makes clear: Time to reimagine arms control," The Hill, December 12, 2018.
• With Andy Weber, Smarter US modernization, without new nuclear weapons, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2019.
• With Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, The global responsibility to prepare for intersecting climate and nuclear risks, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 2018.
• The ambiguity challenge: Why the world needs a multilateral nuclear cruise missile agreement," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 2017.
• "The Unique Risks of Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles," in John Borrie, Tim Caughley and Wilfred Wan, editors, "Understanding Nuclear Weapon Risks," United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, April 2017.
• "The Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: A US Perspective on the Treaty and Its Future," Asia-Pacific Leadership Network Policy Brief 22, February 23, 2017.
• With Andy Weber, "Lessons from Kazakhstan: 25 Years of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Threats," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, January 2017.
• "Technology in Context: Lessons from the Elimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction," The Nonproliferation Review, Volume 23 (2016)​. 
• With Andy Weber, "People preventing catastrophe: A Review of Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers (edited by Siegfried S. Hecker)," The Nonproliferation Review, 23:5-6, 2016.
• With Andy Weber, "Happy Anniversary, Kazakhstan: 25 Years of Reducing WMD Threats," War on the Rocks (August 29, 2016).
• With Sico Van der Meer, "Revive Arms Control & Start with Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles," War on the Rocks (June 8, 2016).
• “What Would Our Friends Think? Views from Allies on the Future of U.S. Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles,” Medium.com (May 6, 2016).
• "The Climate-Nuclear-Security Nexus: A Collision Course or a Road to New Opportunities?" Center for Climate and Security (May 2016).
• "Deciding Whether to Reinvest in 21st-Century Nuclear Weapons," Reinvent Roundtable (video), January 2016. 
• With Vikram Singh, "Time to Internationalize the Dialogue on Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles," War on the Rocks (December 2015).
• "Implementing the Iran Nuclear Agreement," Center for American Progress Issue Brief (September 10, 2015).
• With Andy Weber, “Innovation in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Arms Control Today (July/August 2015).
• With Andy Weber: “Global Health Security: The Next Five Years,” Global Health and Diplomacy (January 2015).
• “China's Monopoly on Rare Earths: Implications for U.S. Foreign and Security Policy,” (Washington: Written testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, September 21, 2011).
• With Will Rogers: Blinded: The Decline of U.S. Earth Monitoring Capabilities and Its Consequences for National Security (Washington: Center for a New American Security, August 2011).
• Elements of Security: Mitigating the Risks of U.S. Dependence on Critical Minerals (Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, May 2011).
• "Rare Earth Woes Could Mean Trouble for U.S. Stealth Fleet,” Wired Magazine’s “Danger Room” (11 May 2011).
• With David Asher, Patrick Cronin, and Daniel Kliman: Disaster in Japan: Nuclear Energy, the Economy and the U.S.-Japan Alliance (Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, March 2011).
• “Critical Minerals: Growing Demands, Rising Tensions,” International Relations and Security Network (ISN) (January 3, 2011).
• With John Nagl: “Fueling the Future Force: The Department of Defense Must Prepare for the Post-Petroleum Era,” cover story in Armed Forces Journal (November 2010).
• With CDR Herb Carmen, USN, and Will Rogers: “On the Front Lines: Climate Change and the Combatant Commands” (Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, April 2010).
• With James N. Miller and Kurt M. Campbell:  The Case for Game-Changing Diplomacy with Iran Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, May 2008).
• With Kurt Campbell, et al.: Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008).