Tom Nichols (academic)

Tom Nichols is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, at the Harvard Extension School, a Sovietologist, and a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion. He is a senior contributor at The Federalist and the author of seven books. Previously he was a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also worked for Senator John Heinz as personal staff for defense and security affairs.

He was a member of the Never Trump movement and one of "the most eloquent conservative voices against President Trump." During the 2016 presidential campaign, Nichols wrote "an epic tweetstorm arguing that conservatives should vote for Hillary Clinton, whom he detested, because Trump was "too mentally unstable" to serve as commander-in-chief.

Nichols is an undefeated five-time Jeopardy! champion and one of that game's all-time top players.

Publications

Books

• The Sacred Cause: Civil-Military Conflict over Soviet National Security, 1917-1992 (1993, Cornell University Press)
• The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic' (1999, Palgrave Macmillan)
• Winning the World: Lessons for America's Future from the Cold War (2002, Praeger)
• Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War (2008, University of Pennsylvania Press)
• Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO (2012, Military Bookshop)
• No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security (2013, University of Pennsylvania Press).
• The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters (2017, Oxford University Press)