Jessica Yeats

Jessica Yeats is a research assistant for the CSIS International Security Program (ISP) and the program manager for the defense and national security team, where she works on a broad range of nuclear issues including nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and U.S. nuclear strategy and force modernization. Yeats was a coauthor of the 2008 report Nuclear Weapons in 21st Century U.S. National Security (2008), the product of a joint working group of AAAS, the American Physical Society, and CSIS. She delivered a briefing at U.S. Strategic Command on “Nuclear Forensics and the Future of the Weapons Laboratories” and was a contributing author to the CSIS Beyond Goldwater-Nichols report, Facilitating a Dialogue among Senior-Level DOD Officials on National Security Priorities (2008). She previously served as the interim project coordinator for the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) and supported the ISP Proliferation Prevention project as the recipient of the 2007–2008 William J. Taylor CSIS debate internship. Yeats holds a B.A. in economics from Idaho State University, where she ended her intercollegiate policy debate career as the second speaker at the 2007 National Debate Tournament (NDT).