Nuclear Weapons History and Politics
Starter Pack for Nuclear Weapons History and Politics. Most of these folks are within the broader #NukeSky world. If I've missed you, please let me know if you would like to be added or suggest anyone else who should be on this!
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@debak.bsky.social
@laurensukin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of International Relations at LSE | Nuclear weapons, international security, indo-pacific, NATO, cyber
@jluisrodriguez.com
Assistant Professor at George Mason's Schar School of Policy and Government | Affiliate at Stanford CISAC | Adjunct non-resident fellow at CSIS PONI | PhD from Johns Hopkins | International security, international law, and Global South | 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
@jimgoldgeier.bsky.social
Visiting Fellow, Brookings; prof/ex-dean, American University SIS; senior advisor, Bridging the Gap; Research Affiliate, Stanford. Views are my own. www.jamesgoldgeier.com.
@ebrewer.bsky.social
Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
@mariarostrublee.bsky.social
International security, nuclear politics, Indo-Pacific security, diversity & inclusion | Professor, University of Melbourne | President, Women in International Security-Australia
@nuclearkatie.com
Nuclear engineer. nuclear: energy, history, waste, nonproliferation, humor. "Tells uranium's life story". Lives in New Mexico, formerly WI. Outdoors when I'm not working. Views mine alone. she/her
@mbudjeryn.bsky.social
Researcher of nuclear, Ukraine, and nuclear Ukraine. Author of Inheriting the Bomb. Harvard Belfer Center, Wilson Center Global Europe Program, Brookings nonresident, NAS CISAC, ACONA.
@daltmanir.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. Conquest, faits accomplis, deterrence, coercion failure, causes of war. Website: dan-altman.weebly.com
@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
@lauraegrego.bsky.social
Senior scientist & research director, Global Security Program, ucsusa.org. Space, missile defense, nuclear weapons.
@derekjesq.bsky.social
Democracy, diplomacy, disarmament. Managing Director, ResearchCollaborative.org. Young(ish) Leader, Munich Security Conference + Friends of Europe. Former CEO of Global Zero. Made in #Iowa with parts from #Iran. he/him 🇦🇲
@mgmessmer.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow in International Security at Chatham House Former BASIC, King's College London 🇩🇪 🏳️🌈 in 🇬🇧
@lanoszka.bsky.social
Associate professor at the University of Waterloo (Canada); visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin (Poland); and fellow at the Council on Geostrategy (UK) and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (Canada). www.alexlanoszka.com
@charlicarpenter.bsky.social
only-slightly-mad scientist, int’l law prof, author of books on civilians & war. fears tyrants & nukes; welcomes spiders & refugee children. loves whitewater.
@corentinbr.bsky.social
Former think tanker and lecturer on strategy and nuclear weapons, turned bureaucrat. Views are my own.
@mcfuhrmann.bsky.social
Political science professor at Texas A&M. International relations, nuclear weapons, alliances, interstate conflict.
@maurogilli.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Zurich). Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition, innovation & creativity. Born🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 8y & counting🇨🇭 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/
@hannanotte.bsky.social
Russia's foreign & security policy | Middle East | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS & Snr. Associate @CSIS | PhD Oxford Uni. | Berlin-based | Currently writing a book on Russia for W. W. Norton & Co. | Personal views
@irehman.bsky.social
Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Applied history, grand strategy and Asian security.
@susancolbourn.net
Historian at Duke. Latest book: EUROMISSILES. Still writing about NATO and European security since 1945.
@drjlhazelton.bsky.social
Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
@rpanchasi.bsky.social
assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france/empire/culture; nuclear weapons & power; pop music & the end of the world; founding host-new books in french studies; co-editor, journal of the WSFH; brown; settler; NOT my employer roxannepanchasi.com
@mephenke.bsky.social
Professor at Hertie School, Berlin and SAIS, Washington DC. European security and defense. Hot dog lover 🤤
@jjjcameron.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
@jamiewithorne.bsky.social
Nuclear weapons, missiles, and “”emerging”” technology. Doctoral Research Fellow, Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo LearnWMD Spreadsheet: https://learnwmd.wixsite.com/learnwmd/the-spreadsheet
@marksbell.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minneota, mostly studying nuclear weapons, international security, and US foreign policy. Opinions mine. www.markbell.org
@aaronbateman.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book#1 : Weapons in Space: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547369/weapons-in-s | Now writing a book on the politics/security of global information networks
@ncrenic.bsky.social
Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
@proftalmadge.bsky.social
MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, Wilson Center fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army www.CaitlinTalmadge.com
@bastianherre.bsky.social
Researcher @ourworldindata.org. I make research on democracy, human rights, armed conflict, and violence easier to access and understand. he/him
@fpriorbis.bsky.social
Someone who follows geopolitical and geo-economic trends and studies how national security decisions get made. All comments are personal opinions and do not reflect any official/institutional views. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolas-gvosdev-925485301/
@wslafoy.bsky.social
Open Source Analysis of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, BMD, DPRK, & PRC. Vice President of Nuclear and Technology Security Programs, Exiger. Making podcasts over at https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/ All opinions my own.
@fravel.bsky.social
Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
@historyasif.bsky.social
New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
@mattkorda.bsky.social
I count nukes for the Federation of American Scientists + the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 🇨🇦 Views my own.
@nktpnd.bsky.social
Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford) https://panda.substack.com/
@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
Fellow with Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program and Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | PhD from Oxford | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
@dexeve.bsky.social
PRC and DPRK strategic forces analyst with CNA. BA Reed College, MA Middlebury Institute. NSF GRFP.
@gabriellehecht.bsky.social
Writer/Prof/Anti-disciplinary https://gabriellehecht.org Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures 🇵🇷1st genx2 • cisbi♀• proud but terrified parent of 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧠♾️
@russianforces.org
Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here. All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
@radchenko.bsky.social
Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
@victorasal.bsky.social
UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
@wellerstein.bsky.social
Historian of science, technology, secrecy, and nukes. Professor. Creator of NUKEMAP. Author of RESTRICTED DATA. New book coming out in 2025 on Truman and the bomb. Working on a video game. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net
@nukestrat.bsky.social
Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, co-author of Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own. Website: https://fas.org/initiative/nuclear-information-project/
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
Anthro PhD Candidate. nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc. gonzo journo QUEER RT/Fave/etc ≠agree he/him http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro https://osf.io/46sfd/
@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
Nederbelg in Brussel non-practicing intellectual on war & tech NL/EN
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos. Posting on nuclear issues, war, nature, science, and women's issues. Also cats. She/her. Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money Banner: The invincible summer within
@debak.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver | PhD from Cornell | International Security, Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Policy | Affiliate at Stanford CISAC & Sciences Po (Paris) www.debakdas.com