Feels discordant to share good personal news, but I just received promotion to associate professor with tenure. Many thanks to everyone in my life—personal and professional—who helped make this possible.

Awesome to visit the Pile-1 nuclear memorial after presenting new research on how tech shapes arming strategies at Chicago’s Workshop on International Politics with @janevaynman.bsky.social. Special thanks to @profpaulpoast.bsky.social for the post-dinner tour!

Last year, @tristanvolpe.bsky.social and I looked South Korea’s past and present attempts to leverage its nuclear latency for concessions from the United States (amid a broader national debate on the merits on nuclear weapons) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Awesome

In @foreignaffairs.com, Ori Rabinowitz and I discuss the evolution of Russia’s balancing act between Iran and Israel as well as Russia’s role in Iranian nuclear ambitions. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/will-...

*weeeeeee!*

I sat down (virtually) with @marksbell.bsky.social to discuss his theory of nuclear opportunism, the nuclear lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and relevant issues pertaining to the nuclear order. youtu.be/pa0FIoHW37Q?...

@tristanvolpe.bsky.social and I joined this session of the Horns of a Dilemma podcast with Texas National Security Review and War on the Rocks. We talk about how characteristics of dual use technologies affect international cooperation and competition. warontherocks.com/2025/01/dual...

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

Worth taking note. But this isn’t the first such announcement from Saudi officials to pursue enrichment. They’ve been laying out ‘plans’ for years. (H/T proliferation news)

Time for a new school of International Relations theory: Offensive Irrealism.

Launch day! My new book “Under the Nuclear Shadow” about China’s approach to strategic deterrence and information-age weapons is officially out with @princetonupress.bsky.social ! To read more about it and order it, see press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Recently, I got a chance to host Dr. @tristanvolpe.bsky.social for a discussion on his book "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology," at the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR). youtu.be/QJxZ--l8Oy4?...

Oppenheimer 🤜🤛 Twin Peaks: The Return Episode 8

This should be getting more attention

Big development for an agency that has historically not openly discussed its number of systems in orbit spacenews.com/nro-hits-mil...

Great to chat about my recent book, "Leveraging Latency," with Eleonora Mattiacci. We cover a ton of ground, from how small states leverage nuclear technology to the implications for managing proliferation threats from South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Iran today: newbooksnetwork.com/leveraging-l...

Annual reminder that Tinker Tailor is a Christmas movie

Thanks to this piece, I finally understand the absolute illogical layout of United’s C/D gate structure at Dulles IAD. Path dependency 🤜🤛 poor planning! viewfromthewing.com/billions-spe...

“There were other stumbling blocks…For instance, there was no progress in the talks about civil nuclear cooperation because Saudi Arabia refused to sign a so-called 123 Agreement with the U.S. that would have denied Riyadh the right to nuclear enrichment” www.reuters.com/world/saudi-...

A perfect thanksgiving album for prompting your family to ask, “what are we listening to?!?” and “who put this on???”

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! 👉 go.bsky.app/KDiibQK

Super interesting work at the intersection of tech, secrecy, and bureaucratic politics

IR Book of the Week! "Influence Without Arms" by Matt Fuhrmann. We often think that HAVING the bomb is enables states to deter threats and shape global politics. But can states enjoy the same benefits by simply having the "ability" to have a bomb? www.amazon.com/Influence-wi...

The US needs a new, durable consensus on how to manage nuclear proliferation threats in today's security environment. That is why NTI, Carnegie, and Belfer are announcing a new high-level, bipartisan Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and US National Security. www.nti.org/news/announc...

Nuclear policy starter pack for folks coming from other socials. Will update regularly. go.bsky.app/BWGGzgX

At #APSA2024, we presented the 2023 Robert O. Keohane award (for the best article published in IO by an untenured scholar) to @janevaynman.bsky.social & @tristanvolpe.bsky.social. "Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in Internationla Relations." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As tensions continue to mount, pundits are increasingly worried about security dilemmas emerging between the US and China. New in World Politics w @ryanbrutger.bsky.social and Kai Quek: we show both the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 publics are prone to security dilemma thinking muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... #polisky

Next week: "Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes International Competition" with Jane Vaynman and @tristanvolpe.bsky.social RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/dual-...

I can’t wait for TikTok to read Ghost Wars

Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.

My feed here is mostly @profmusgrave.bsky.social. Not complaining. I miss his witticisms on twitter.

The routes flown by the Army Air Forces's Air Transport Command (tasked with delivering supplies/personnel and ferrying new aircraft to combat theaters) as of Jan. 1943 Truly staggering reach, which was only getting started in the Pacific

Hacking Nuclear Stability: 3 years of wargames, 500+ players. We find danger of cyber for nuclear stability is not in how it creates uncertainty but instead in misplaced certainty, counterforce & accidents. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My main hesitation with completely abandoning twitter is that this site seems a bit buggy and engagement is zero or close to zero

Do people promote new publications here? I really miss old academic twitter. I found out about so much research from promotional threads

Is there a viable platform for reposting across multiple social media accounts? I don’t have the effort to copy and paste my dumb thought into like four distinct services

New article dropping soon …

At this rate I’m just going to give up on social media. Too much effort to rebuild.

Sup

Promote yourself relentlessly and disgustingly.

I’m here after forgetting about my baby fresh accounts at Post and Threads