Andrew Facini

Andrew Facini is a Senior Fellow at the Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons at the Council on Strategic Risks, where he also serves as Director of Communications. His research focuses on U.S. nuclear policy and force structure, tactical nuclear weapons, China's historical and emerging nuclear doctrines, and cultural understandings of nuclear conflict.

He created and maintains the Nuclear Weapon Systems Project, a living dataset of every nuclear weapon system deployed by the P5, and leads CSR's work on the effects and escalation risks of tactical nuclear weapons use. His writing has appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Lawfare, War on the Rocks, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The Hill and Responsible Statecraft, and he has spoken on BBC World Service.

Andrew has taught alongside faculty from Harvard Kennedy School and the U.S. Naval War College for more than a decade, across Harvard Extension School courses on nuclear weapons, the future of war, and the Cold War, and lectures in Harvard's nuclear deterrence certificate program. He is a mentor with the African Atomic Policy Lab and a former fellow of the N Square Innovators Network.

Before CSR, he was Director of Communications at the Institute for Security and Technology and spent eight years at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, rising to Publishing Manager. He holds a B.A. in international relations from Boston University, where he founded The International Relations Review, and a master's in international relations from Harvard Extension School, where he wrote his thesis on the ideological origins of “minimum deterrence” in China's nuclear weapons program.