Guest: Dr. Tong Zhao
Dr. Tong Zhao is Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, working for both the Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie China. He conducts research on strategic security issues, such as nuclear weapons policy, deterrence, arms control, nonproliferation, missile defense, hypersonic weapons, regional security issues in the Asia Pacific, and China’s security and foreign policy. He is also a nonresident researcher at the Science and Global Security Program of Princeton University, an associate editor of the journal Science & Global Security, and a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. He is the author of “Tides of Change: China’s Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines and Strategic Stability” and “Narrowing the U.S.-China Gap on Missile Defense: How to Help Forestall a Nuclear Arms Race.” He has published in Arms Control Today, Asian Security, The Atlantic, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Times, War on the Rocks, and Politico, among others.