served as a nuclear submarine officer aboard the USS Hartford before volunteering to go to Iraq under the Individual Augmentee program. As a nuclear-trained officer, he worked as an energy-sector liaison between coalition military forces, the U.S. Department of State and the Iraqi Government from 2006 to 2007. During this time in Iraq, he observed the low-point of the insurgency and the beginnings of the surge under General Petraeus.

In 2008, Christopher curated an exhibition of Iraqi art in New York City before moving to Italy, to study International Energy Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Christopher is currently finishing My Nuclear Family: Growing up with Energy & Violence, which will be released by Alfred A. Knopf in 2009. He also contributes to The Daily Beast and Post Global, a joint Washington Post/Newsweek forum.

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