Who Has Our Attention

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. Town was named one of Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World” and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2019 for her role in co-founding and managing the 38 North website, which provides policy and technical analysis on North Korea.

Town recently collaborated on a review of satellite imagery tracking activity at North Korea’s nuclear test site.

Check out 38 North for more on North Korea.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Before coming to CNS, he was the director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation. Prior to that, he was executive director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, executive director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a desk officer in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.

Dr. Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com, the first blog on arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation.

You can listen to Jeffrey Lewis’s latest podcast, “The Reason We’re Still Here”. The podcast catalogues the efforts of scientists, analysts, and idealist who work to bring us back from the brink.