Andy Oppenheimer is an independent UK-based defence analyst specialising in CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapons and explosives) and counterterrorism.
He was appointed Editor of Chemical & Biological Warfare Review in November 2010 www.chembio.biz and Editor of Global Defence Review http://www.global-media-applications.com/ in November 2011.
From 2006-08 he was Editor of Jane’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence and NBC International, and in 2004-05 was Co-editor of Jane’s World Armies.
His main areas of interest are nuclear and radiological proliferation, IEDs and explosives, CBRNE threat analysis, antiterrorist countermeasures, CBRNE defence equipment, and business continuity and protection. He regularly gives presentations at conferences and as a VIP speaker at professional seminars for institutes, military establishments and law enforcement authorities. These include masterclasses and workshops such as the IEDs Masterclass for SMi Group in London in July 2010 and July 2011. IEDs: Defeat the Device
http://www.smi-online.co.uk//training/overview.asp?is=1&ref=3796
He acts as a consultant or interviewee on TV documentaries, series and films on IEDs, nuclear weapons and other areas within his field of expertise. Please contact Andy for current rates.
Oppenheimer has worked on projects as CBRN consultant for Jane’s Strategic Advisory Services, Oxford Analytica, Writing Solutions Ltd (for Business Monitor International), Gerson Lehrman Group, and R & F Defence Consultancy. Consultancy work includes reports for corporate and institute clients as well as expert witness testimonies.
His book IRA – The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity is published by Irish Academic Press (2008). For further details please email Andy – Copies are available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.
Widely acknowledged as the seminal work on the military campaign of the Irish republican movement and now in its third print run, this book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of strategic, tactical, and operational details, and analysis of the IRA’s mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. It analyses where, how, and why the IRA’s 19,000 bombs were built, targeted and deployed – and what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivalled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence.
He has written dozens of reports for Jane’s Information Group publications, including Jane’s Intelligence Digest, Jane’s Security Monitor and Jane’s Chem-bio Web, and for Military Periscope, Defence & Security Systems International, Military Technology, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Global Defence Review, Defence Director, Asian Military Review, Crisis Response, Aviation Security International and others. Links to recent articles may be emailed on request.
He is a Member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) and Technical Adviser to the National Nuclear Museum, Albuquerque, NM and the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Oppenheimer has over 20 years’ experience in scientific publishing as a commissioning editor, writer, and project manager, which led to research into nuclear weapons history, strategies, technologies and proliferation during the 1980s and 1990s, alongside research into the IRA and IEDs. He has since acquired an acknowledged international reputation in successfully communicating all aspects of CBRNE at all levels – from hydrogen bombs to hydrogen peroxide.
