Jon B. Wolfsthal 🤯
Director, Global Risk at Federation of American Scientists, former Sr. Dir NSC, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (doomsday clock setter). Pope of Chili Town. Hosts We’re All Gonna Die on DSR. No #manels, Stonecutter?
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Nuclear Policy
People who work on and know about the practical implication of nuclear weapons, including deterrence, proliferation and security.
@dycinwdc.bsky.social
Director, Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at IDA.org & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy #OSD44 at www.Defense.gov @mcgill.ca @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social “si vis pacem, studium bellum” F/L/P/RP≠E
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
@connormmurray.bsky.social
🇦🇹 in DC. Political Director and Research Analyst @LivableWorld & @Nukes_Of_Hazard. Opinions are my own.
@nuclear-jim.bsky.social
Co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. I spend a lot of time thinking about nuclear weapons, advanced nonnuclear technology, and escalation.
@dburbach.bsky.social
Prof. International Relations & National Security. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregonian at heart. Posts, RTs are personal ONLY. Teach at NWC but dont represent US Navy | Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
@stevenmazie.bsky.social
SCOTUS correspondent for The Economist. Political studies prof at Bard Early College-Manhattan.
@nikkimcr.bsky.social
politics reporter @ Rolling Stone • host of the @americanfric.bsky.social • clipping with @snapstream.com • siempre jodiendo 🇲🇽 https://linktr.ee/Nikkimcr signal: Nikkimcr.70 Interested in clipping video? http://SnapStream.com/nikki
@kathleenromig.bsky.social
📊 Director of Social Security and Disability Policy at @centeronbudget 🏛️ Proud former fed: SSA, CRS, OMB, SSAB
@kenjennings.bsky.social
Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of 100 PLACES TO SEE AFTER YOU DIE (bit.ly/3kLgJKO) and a bunch of other stuff. OMNIBUS co-founder (patreon.com/omnibusproject).
@americannuclear.bsky.social
Not-for-profit professional society dedicated to advancing peaceful uses of #nuclear science and technology. Since 1954. Join us at www.ans.org #EnergySky
@chasteen.bsky.social
Nazarene, Hoosier, vet, CTO, CMO, wannabe theologian, CISO, CEO. Novice, OEF Sometimes I tell stories on Film and TV. Member, WGAW He/him
@mtill50.bsky.social
Greta’s Dogfather | @pbsnews.bsky.social For. & Def. Editor | 5x Peabody | Hold The Line | Wahoowa | NewsHour.pbs.org | Signal: MTill.89
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.
@rorymedcalf.bsky.social
Professor Rory Medcalf AM | Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, Canberra | Indo-Pacific strategy | An independent Australian worldview
@winkie.bsky.social
White House reporter for @usatoday.com || mostly part-time Guard guy || priors: Military Times, CNN, Army Guard officer || bylines: ProPublica, POLITICO, Texas Tribune & more || views mine || DM for Signal || davis.winkie[at]pm.me
@frank11285.bsky.social
Senior Research Adviser, @apln.network Nonresident Fellow, South Asia Program @stimsoncenter.bsky.social Opinions my own, reposts ≠ endorsement. https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-o-donnell-b84675158
@rigomundo.bsky.social
Climate investor with a focus on the salty. Founder of Amazon’s climate fund. Lots more clean/climate tech investing history. Father of a voter. Over-aged athlete. Baker. I ❤️ public transit; I bike more than I drive. Fond of vermouths and amaros.
@amyspitalnick.bsky.social
CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs (@thejcpa.bsky.social) Focused on democracy, hate, & extremism. Previously: sued Nazis & won; Comms Director & Sr Policy Advisor, NY Attorney General
@yblim.bsky.social
Personal Account - Just an Asian nerd who's a bit unfurled, living in a geopolitically hot world. Interests include addressing bio risks, building talent pipelines to address complex, converging risks, and brewing rice wine and making dumplings.
@rabsaa.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar, MTA, Belfer Center, HKS | Dean Social Sciences, University of Lahore, Director CSSPR https://csspr.uol.edu.pk/ PhD Security Studies, KSU | Author, The Blind Eye: US Nonprolif Policy towards 🇵🇰 Free e-book: https://csspr.uol.edu.pk/f2c
@profpaulpoast.bsky.social
International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Still on Twitter/X, but now here too. https://www.paulpoast.com/
@ericlipton.nytimes.com
Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump (and Elon Musk)-without fear or favor. I write about people and power. And I do believe accountability matters. My contact on Signal: EricNYT.08 Also can get anonymous tips: nytimes.com/tips
@philgordondc.bsky.social
Sydney Stein Jr. Scholar @BrookingsInst; Executive Partner XN; White House, NSC and State Department under Biden, Obama and Clinton; author of Losing the Long Game.
@mdegroot51.bsky.social
Historian at Indiana University Bloomington, ‘24-25 National Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, Author of Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell, 2024), Cold War international history and geoeconomics
@wtfrench76.bsky.social
Head of Communications at @theelders.bsky.social. Still waiting for the great leap forward.
@amymcgrath.bsky.social
Mom of Teddy, George, and Ellie. Wife of Erik. Former Marine. F/A-18 pilot. Proud American. Proud Kentuckian. Founder @dmapac.bsky.social.
@cullenhendrix.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute, Contributing Author, #NCA6. Sustainability, security, and political economy. Heart masquerading as head since 1977. You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.
@kaylacalkin.bsky.social
Full-Time Federal Campaigns Director @NRDC.org🌎. Part-Time Westie belly scratcher 🐶. Breast cancer thriver. 🫶🏻 Denver based🏔️World bound. ✈️ Alum of: ✔️Kamala Harris ✔️First Descents ✔️Hillary ✔️Planned Parenthood ✔️Wellesley College
@lianafix.bsky.social
Fellow for Europe @CFR_org | Historian & Political Scientist | #Germany #Europe #Russia #EasternEurope #Security | Views my own, likes and RT not endorsement. Washington, DC. https://www.cfr.org/expert/liana-fix
@liviuhorovitz.bsky.social
Researcher @SWP_IntSecurity #STAND | once @CSDS_Brussels, @SAIS, @CSS_ETHZurich or @BelferCenter | nukes | transatlantic stuff | qual & archives buff
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Special correspondent at Vanity Fair and host of the Fast politics podcast and MSNBC
@lizcheney.bsky.social
Proud rodeo mom, soccer mom, baseball mom, hockey mom, constitutional conservative.
@peoplefor.bsky.social
Resisting fascism and fighting for freedom. Home of @rightwingwatch.bsky.social & @yeonetwork.bsky.social.
@cassandrasteer.bsky.social
Space security - international space law - space governance - IHL - women, peace and security in space. Founder of the Australian Centre for Space Governance. Consultant at large, exiting academia. Mother. Opinions are very much my own.
@johnsonrc01.bsky.social
Personal account. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and CWMD Policy. Previously at Dept of State, NSC44. Nuclear, chem, bio, China, Korean Peninsula, Japan, NATO, Iran, etc. Let’s go Dodgers. 🏳️🌈
@tessbridgeman.bsky.social
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Just Security (@justsecurity.bsky.social) | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Stanford CISAC | Former NSC Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President | Former State Department
@jessicawestphd.bsky.social
Peace and security in outer space | Tech governance | WPS Research: Grey Zones of Space Governance https://bit.ly/4jaj0Zo ; Hidden Harms in Outer Space https://bit.ly/3DTnBPJ Reach out to connect and collaborate 🚀 ⭐ 🌍 🛰
@wired.com
At wired.com where tomorrow is realized || Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters Find our WIRED journalists here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/couts.bsky.social/3l6vez3xaus27
@pranayrvaddi.bsky.social
pers acct. MIT CNSP Senior Nuclear Fellow @ssp-mit.bsky.social fmr NSC46, State Dept. nukes, nonpro, arms control. Husband + suburban dad. All tweets/rt are my views alone. https://strategicsimplicity.substack.com/
@criswbarnes.bsky.social
Retired physicist after 40 years at Los Alamos. Plasma physics, fusion, hydrodynamics, dynamic materials.... Not to mention opera, modern rock, good food, and more. Now produces musical theater.
@eaterofsun.bsky.social
Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
@matthewparent1.bsky.social
Studying international security, military technology, and popular culture. Working at Harvard's Project on Managing the Atom. PhD and MA from UConn (political science and human rights), MA from Catholic University, and BA from UMass.
@atabatabai.bsky.social
Ex Pentagon & State Department • Recovering academic • Author of No Conquest, No Defeat & co-author of Triple Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China
@aaronstein1.bsky.social
President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
@apsva.us
APS is a diverse and inclusive school community, committed to academic excellence and integrity. #APSisAwesome #OneTeamOneAPS
@dkspaulding.bsky.social
Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security Program. Views are my own. Blog: blog.ucsusa.org/author/dylan-spaulding/