Bonnie Jenkins

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins is under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs. Jenkins was the founder and president of the Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) nonprofit organization. She was also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and president of Global Connections Empowering Global Change LLC., where she worked with several academic institutions on issues of global health, infectious disease and defense innovation.

EU Defense Washington Forum

9:00 AM - Thursday Jul 09, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

French military pilots are preparing for the first flight in the Kiev region May 15, 2001. A French military mission arrived in Ukraine for a two-day series of observation overflights according to" The Open Skies Treaty" signed in 1992 between member states of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact.AS/GB

A farewell to the Open Skies Treaty, and an era of imaginative thinking

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/

Reopening the World: The WHO, international institutions, and the COVID-19 response

Bonnie Jenkins and Bruce Jones

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A patient infected with coronavirus is carried on a stretcher by a French rescue team before being transferred by a helicopter of the civil security (Securite Civile) from Strasbourg university hospital to Pforzheim in Germany as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in France, March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

Now is the time to revisit the Global Health Security Agenda

Friday, March 27, 2020

The Chicago Police officers and community members participate in "Operation Wake-Up" rally supporting efforts to help stop the violence in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski - RC18AFFF5590

Redefining our concept of security

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Redefining U.S. national security: Interlinkages with American society and foreign policy

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

The Titan Missile, shown from above during a tour of the 103-foot Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) site which was decommissioned in 1982, at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona, U.S., February 2, 2019. REUTERS/Nicole Neri - RC1218FFA6D0

Managing risk: Nuclear weapons in the new geopolitics

Madelyn R. Creedon, Robert Einhorn, Kate Hewitt, Bonnie Jenkins, Bruce Jones, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Jung H. Pak, Frank A. Rose, and Strobe Talbott

February 2019

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile is test-launched from the Ohio-class U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California, U.S. March 26, 2018. Picture taken March 26, 2018. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC18839E3160

Cultural bias clouds US policies on weapons of mass destruction

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School. June 20, 2008. REUTERS/Adam Hunger (UNITED STATES) - GM1E4770OG001

Grand challenge: Bringing a diversity of perspectives into nonproliferation policy

Friday, June 8, 2018

Redefining national security: Why and how

9:45 AM - 12:30 PM EDT