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Amy J. Nelson

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Amy J. Nelson is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Foreign Policy program and with the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on emerging, evolving, and disruptive technologies and their impact on proliferation, as well as improving the efficacy of arms control. She was previously a Robert Bosch Fellow in residence at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, Germany. There, her research focused on the current state of German military/dual-use innovation and prospects for future U.S.-German/E.U. competition and cooperation. She participated as a member of the U.S. arms control delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe while conducting dissertation research.


Articles by Amy J. Nelson

Why the United States should prioritize autonomous demining technology

By Amy J. Nelson | Disruptive Technologies
Delegation members from the UN Security Council's five permanent members (P5), from left to right: Philip Barton of Britain, Andrea Thompson of the United States, Nicolas Roche of France, Fu Cong of China, and Oleg Rozhkov of Russia, attend a panel discussion after the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference in Beijing in January 2019. Photo by Thomas Peter/AFP via Getty Images.

All START: a proposal for moving beyond US-Russia arms control

By Amy J. Nelson, Michael O’Hanlon | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons
Ukrainian servicemen seen along the frontline outside of Svitlodarsk, Ukraine on January 30. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How the demise of an arms control treaty foreshadowed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

By Amy J. Nelson, Adam Twardowski | Analysis, Nuclear Risk
Soviet inspectors inspect Pershing missiles

The death of the INF Treaty has lessons for arms control

By Amy J. Nelson | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons