Nuclear Policy
People who work on and know about the practical implication of nuclear weapons, including deterrence, proliferation and security.
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@jonatomic.bsky.social
@kingstonareif.bsky.social
Senior International/Defense researcher at the RAND Corporation. Former DASD for Threat Reduction and Arms Control + Arms Control Association. Wisconsin sports fanatic. Personal account.
@eirinilemosm.bsky.social
Head Arms Control Disarmament and WMD Non Proliferation @ NATO
@ludovicacast.bsky.social
Research Fellow at @IAI | PhD Candidate @ThirdNuclearAge | Prev @Marshall_Center, @sisunitn | About metaphors, nuclear history, Middle East, and Fujifilm
@joecirin.bsky.social
I've been working on national security in Washington for over 40 years. Government, think tanks and philanthropy. Now retired, I still write, lecture and do media interviews. And I'm still learning. On Substack at: joecirincione.substack.com
@professorrdg.bsky.social
International relations professor focused on global order, nuclear weapons, and nonproliferation
@nickolasroth.bsky.social
Nuclear weapons, nuclear security, BBQ, Senior Director @NTI_WMD, Research Fellow @CISSMaryland. Previously @ManagingtheAtom, @StimsonCenter @UCSUSA etc. .
@jesstaylor.bsky.social
Senior Advisor to @UnderSecT|Princeton International Security PhDCandidate| @ACscowcroft nonres fellow; former US Forces🇰🇷🇵🇰&EUCOM|Personal acct
@scharap.bsky.social
@snehanair.bsky.social
nuclear security gal Formerly NNSA, Stimson Center, CTBTO and OPCW views my own, reposts/likes ≠ endorsement
@jamiekwong.bsky.social
Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | KCL PhD | Nukes and nonpro | RT≠endorsement
@davekearnjr.bsky.social
Son, brother, uncle. Teacher, retired bartender, (slowly) improving golfer. RIP E.B. “It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead…”
@coreyah.bsky.social
Talk to me about British quiz shows, podcasts, Mets, Caps, gymnastics, F1 (but not on Netflix), nukes, cozy cooking shows, and decaf melanges. She/Her.
@beafihn.bsky.social
International law, security and weapons at Lex International. Senior Fellow @UNIDIR. Former Executive Director of ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2017. 🇸🇪in🇨🇭
@carlrobi.bsky.social
Program Officer on nuclear policy at Longview Philanthropy (http://longview.org). Opinions are my own.
@amyjnelsonphd.bsky.social
Foreign Policy & National Security Nuclear and AI Futures Senior Fellow, Future Security Program, New America Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University
@paulvanhooft.bsky.social
Europe | US | grand strategy | deterrence | Research Leader RAND Europe | fmr Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow MIT | fmr Max Weber EUI | PhD.
@samseitz.bsky.social
Stanton postdoc at MIT; Oxford PhD and Georgetown alum; into alliances, status seeking, mil power, & nukes https://www.samuelmseitz.com/
@carolgiacomo.bsky.social
Editor, Arms Control Today. Ex: @NYT editorial board, Reuters diplo correspondent. Teaching: @Princeton, @FordSchool, @IUMedia, @IOP
@danzhukov.bsky.social
program coordinator at Berkeley Risk and Security Lab • he/him • nuclear arms control researcher • formerly at UCLA, Stanford CISAC, and KCL • all views mine
@franziskastaerk.bsky.social
Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) || PhD Candidate, Erasmus University Rotterdam || Nuclear arms control & critical security studies https://ifsh.de/en/staff/staerk
@elianajjohns.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate with Nuclear Information Project @ Federation of American Scientists & Grad Student @ Georgetown SFS | Talks about nukes and satellite imagery | (views are my own)
@areddie.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor @goldmanschool @ucberkeley; Founder @berkeleyrisk
@profonderco.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at Erasmus University Rotterdam, affiliated with Charles University in Prague. VU Amsterdam, EUI, CISAC, WIAS-alum. Nuclear weapons | foreign policy | CEE
@fiona-cunningham.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of “Under the Nuclear Shadow” (Princeton, 2025). China, nukes, cyber, space, international security. She/her. Personal website: www.fionascunningham.com
@francoisdm.bsky.social
Nuclear editor @thebulletin.org. Fmr MacArthur Found. & Marie S.-Curie fellow @stanfordcisac.bsky.social. Fmr engineer in US/French nuclear ind. 1st gen. Father x3. Cello. Autism. | Tips: francois@thebulletin.org signal: francoisdm.21
@laurensukin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of International Relations at LSE | Nuclear weapons, international security, indo-pacific, NATO, cyber
@togzhankassenova.bsky.social
Almaty-born, DC-based expert on nuclear politics and financial crime prevention Author of Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2022) http://www.togzhankassenova.com
@tristanvolpe.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, Naval Postgraduate School; Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Author of LEVERAGING LATENCY (http://bit.ly/3RXHUhM). https://tristanvolpe.com
@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.
@mknight.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate @ Federation of American Scientists - Nuclear Information Project Mother to a demonic chihuahua named Pippin 🐾 Views are my own
@tomcollina.bsky.social
Senior Policy Advisor, Ploughshares Fund. Coauthor, THE BUTTON. Proud husband, father, dog-person.
@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.
@janevaynman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. I study arms control, nuclear weapons, international institutions, and emerging technology.
@davidehoffman.bsky.social
Author of The Oligarchs, The Dead Hand, The Billion Dollar Spy, and Give Me Liberty. Plus: The Washington Post 2023 editorial series “Annals of Autocracy”: https://wapo.st/3K8LVNd
@catherinedill.bsky.social
Formerly known as atomic_pickles, but still thinking about atomic pickles. Fancies: gardens, birds, mountains & rocks, satellites, Delftware, N95s. She/her. Only personal views reflected.
@ninatannenwald.bsky.social
Political scientist at Brown, focusing on nuclear weapons, WMD, norms and institutions in security, human rights, ethics and laws of war.
@corentinbr.bsky.social
Former think tanker and lecturer on strategy and nuclear weapons, turned bureaucrat. Views are my own.
@mattkorda.bsky.social
I count nukes for the Federation of American Scientists + the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 🇨🇦 Views my own.
@fravel.bsky.social
Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
@jjjcameron.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
@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
@hfayet.bsky.social
Chercheuse atomique au Centre des études de sécurité de l’Ifri, passée par le ministère des Armées. Également déléguée générale de WIIS France et membre du Young Generation Leadership Network. « Pasionaria de la bomba » selon RB.
@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
@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
@rafaelloss.bsky.social
policy fellow @ecfr.eu berlin | defence, nukes and nato | prev cgsr llnl | he/him latest 👉 https://ecfr.eu/article/more-than-money-how-german-defence-can-make-the-most-of-the-debt-break-overhaul/
@camillegrand.bsky.social
Distinguished Policy Fellow @ecfr.eu Former senior official @NATO, Ministère des Armées, Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères and think tanker at FRS…
@elenachernenko.bsky.social
Kommersant newspaper, special correspondent (based in Moscow). Personal area of interest: arms control, non-proliferation, cyber diplomacy. Views are my own.
@mrdanzak.bsky.social
Journalist. Bio & work: www.mrdanzak.com Author of ALMIGHTY, a book on the bomb: http://amzn.to/35PAusZ
@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social
Professor at the Middlebury Institute & host of the Arms Control Wonk Podcast.
@atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
@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/
@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
@russianforces.org
Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here. All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
@olyaoliker.bsky.social
Europe & Central Asia Director @crisisgroup.org / Feminist / ❤️ punk rock / Opinions own / Endorsements clearly marked / https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/people/olga-oliker
@brunotertrais.bsky.social
Deputy Director, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique. Non-Resident Fellow, Institut Montaigne. Geopolitics, strategy and stuff. Personal account. b.tertrais@frstrategie.org Books: tinyurl.com/bdzbxnyx
@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)
@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/
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. Atlantic Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
@claudmajor.bsky.social
Head of @SWP_IntSecurity; Security & Defense, NATO, Europe, 🇫🇷&🇩🇪; via: @CSS_Zurich @sciencepo @EU_ISS @unibirmingham; mom of 3, 🇫🇷 knight, here personal capacity.
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@jonatomic.bsky.social
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?