Thomas M. Nichols

Tom Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He previously taught international relations and Soviet/Russian affairs at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. Dr. Nichols served as personal staff for defense and security affairs in the United States Senate to the late Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania, and was a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He is currently a Fellow in the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he is working on a book on the reform of nuclear strategy.