This Defense Priorities report calls for downgrading the U.S. - Aus alliance (among others), bad idea! U.S. global military power projection depends on facilities in Aus as I detail in my Intl Security article published last year (see first comment below) www.defensepriorities.org/explainers/a...

A second island chain strategy for Asia - Defense Priorities

Key points The United States has two core interests in Asia worth protecting with military power: defending the U.S. homeland […]

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Recruitment ad from the 1950s for technical manpower to operate and maintain the DEW Line radars and White Alice communications networks, key parts of the early U.S. NC3 infrastructure.

Here's @fionacunningham.bsky.social and Kristin Bruusgaard on nuclear strategy, from their piece in @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @pearson-edits.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Risks of Getting Russian and Chinese Nuclear Strategy Wrong

Strategists must understand the great powers’ different approaches to nuclear use.

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I’m thrilled to share that my @princetonupress.bsky.social book “Under the Nuclear Shadow” has won the @mershoncenter.bsky.social ‘s Edgar S. Furniss award! Thank you to the selection committee for this honor! mershoncenter.osu.edu/news/fiona-c...

Fiona Cunningham receives 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award

The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce that Fiona S. Cunningham has been selected to receive the 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for Under the Nuclear Shadow: Ch...

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I'm delighted to share that our inaugural workshop "Intelligence in the Southern Hemisphere: Past and Present" at Macquarie University in Sydney was a great success. We look forward to continuing the conversation at future events!

Fantastic meeting of intelligence studies people in Sydney at Macquarie University with MQ @socintelhist.bsky.social. Thanks to @melaniebrand.bsky.social, Brian Cuddy and @aaronbateman.bsky.social for organising. Very valuable and hope to do it again soon.

It's always a good time visiting NASA's Deep Space Communications Network site near Canberra, Australia. Watching the kangaroos grazing nearby was an added bonus.

The declassified 1962 memo for the UK prime minister informing him (in shakespearean prose) that the US accidentally fried Britain's Ariel satellite with its Starfish Prime nuclear test.

I am so honored that my book received the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize! The nuclear chapter also provides useful context on China’s SLBM test today.

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are delighted that @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social’s Under the Nuclear Shadow is the winner of the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize, presented by Cornell University! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I'm excited to share that I have a volume co-edited with Anthony Eames under contract with Cornell University Press, called Racing for Technology: An International History of SDI. The volume covers NATO , China, Japan, South Korea, Israel, and the Warsaw Pact.

I am thrilled to share that my @princetonupress.bsky.social book “Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security” has won the 2026 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize! Thank you to the selection committee, I am so honored! government.cornell.edu/peter-katzen...

Norway will participate in France's "forward deterrence" nuclear initiative. Norway will also sign a mutual defense treaty with France, known as the Narvik Agreement. www.tv2.no/nyheter/plan...

David Holloway's new tome on the international history of nuclear weapons has arrived!

Thanks so much to True Anomaly for having me out to their facility in Colorado to talk about my book "Weapons in Space." I thoroughly enjoyed touring their satellite fabrication facility and seeing some of their space defense projects. It's a very interesting time in the commercial space arena!

This is a declassified 1981 memo from Richard Allen (then national security advisor) about a recent test of the Soviet Union's co-orbital anti-satellite weapon. The Soviets were testing out a new optical sensor for target acquisition.

I am thrilled to share my new *open access* article in Security Studies, “Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Declassified 1982 study about improving the survivability of U.S. military and intelligence space systems.

I'm still shocked when people ask, "aren't all archives online now" ... no, far from it. Most of the best stuff is buried away in dusty files in the most unexpected places.

Yes, going back to the Cold War, aligning political and industrial goals in the context of joint defense projects proved to be v. difficult both between the US and Europe and within Europe.

James Cameron@jjjcameron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The gap between the increasingly pressing need for European countries to pool their defense efforts and their demonstrated ability/willingness to do so seems... quite wide.

Some of the recently declassified images of the NRO's Cold War-era JUMPSEAT HEO signals intelligence satellite program. lnkd.in/eGym2xBj

The National Reconnaissance Office has declassified limited details about JUMPSEAT, a Cold War-era signals intelligence satellite program in HEO. www.nro.gov/news-media-f...

The U.S. competitive advantage in space depends on infrastructure hosted by allies. @aaronbateman.bsky.social explains the terrestrial space race in the Foreign Policy Essay.

U.S.-China Space Competition Is Anchored to Geography on Earth

The U.S. competitive advantage in space depends on infrastructure hosted by allies.

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My latest piece in @lawfaremedia.org

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The U.S. competitive advantage in space depends on infrastructure hosted by allies. @aaronbateman.bsky.social explains the terrestrial space race in the Foreign Policy Essay.

And the imperial holdings of allied states. @aaronbateman.bsky.social wrote a good paper on US use of UK and US territories for critical military space infrastructure direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

U.S. Space Power and Alliance Dynamics in the Cold War

Abstract. U.S. space power has long been anchored to terrestrial geography. In the Cold War, the United States depended on a global network of facilities to track and communicate with military, intell...

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Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What I find particularly remarkable is how so much American debate seems oblivious to how much the foundations of US global power is dependent on access to infrastructure, bases and depots in Europe and Canada

Great discussion about subsea cable security at IISS in Singapore. The office view is pretty great too.

Beautiful view this morning of the Singapore Strait

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed exploring the Cold War-era subsea cable collections at the National Archives of Singapore.

Many thanks to Will James for hosting me at RSIS (Nanyang Technological University) in Singapore to give a talk on U.S. Spacepower and alliance politics from the Cold War to today.

I’m looking forward to giving a talk in Singapore next week on the role of terrestrial space infrastructure in shaping US alliances from the Cold War to today. If you are Singapore based and interested in attending, registration details can be found below: rsis.edu.sg/event/rsis-s...

1) ***Announcement*** The new Fall 2025 issue is online! Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/issue @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social

Volume 50 Issue 2 | International Security | MIT Press

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