Rebecca Davis Gibbons

Rebecca Davis Gibbons is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine. She previously served as a fellow and associate of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Before becoming an academic, Dr. Gibbons taught elementary school among the Bikini community on Kili Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and served as a national security policy analyst at SAIC providing support to Headquarters Air Force Strategic Stability and Countering WMD Division (AF/A10-S). Her book The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime was published by Cornell University Press in 2022.


Articles by Rebecca Davis Gibbons

A nuclear weapon test by the US military at Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Credit: US Defense Department image via Wikimedia Commons, licensed with PD-USGov-Military)

What justice means to communities affected by nuclear testing

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Voices of Tomorrow
P5 Press Conference at the United Nations, April 19, 2013. The five Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nuclear-weapon states issued a joint statement in January 2022. Credit: Eric Bridiers. Accessed via Flickr. Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic.

Five nuclear weapon states vow to prevent nuclear war while modernizing arsenals

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Nuclear Risk

The nuclear ban treaty and competing nuclear norms

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Collections, Nuclear Weapons