Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2022. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. [2], 54, [4] pages. Footnotes. This is Livermore Papers on Global Security No. 11. Preface by Brad Roberts. Christopher Ashley Ford (born 1967) is an American lawyer and government official who served from January 2018 until January 2021 as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. He was nominated to that position by President Donald Trump, and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on December 21, 2017. After October 21, 2019, Ford also, by delegation from Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, performed the duties of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security until his resignation from the Department of State on January 8, 2021. Before his appointment as Assistant Secretary of State, Ford served in the Trump administration as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Counterproliferation on the United States National Security Council staff, and a senior U.S. State Department official in the George W. Bush administration working on issues of nuclear proliferation and arms control verification and compliance policy. He has also worked as a Senate staffer, as well as for the Hudson Institute. Ford has written three books. Ford has written numerous articles and papers on subjects including nonproliferation and arms control law and policy, international law, nuclear disarmament, nuclear weapons policy, Chinese strategic culture, counter-terrorism, intelligence issues, and comparative law, and he speaks at professional conferences. More