🚨 Job Alert: We’re hiring for a research assistant at @carnegienpp.bsky.social. Come work with me and the rest of the team. Details below; apply by the 18th of August: carnegieendowment.applicantpro.com/jobs/4169113

Research Assistant, Nuclear Policy Program - Washington, DC

Research Assistant Nuclear Policy Program The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a renowned international affairs institution, seeks a full-time research assistant to support its Washington, ...

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My article “Anticipatory Arms Control for the AI Age" w/ @douglasbshaw.bsky.social & William C. Potter is now ungated @armscontrolnow.bsky.social. We explain why AI-enabled nuclear & biological weapons risks need a new forum for private-public sector dialogue. www.armscontrol.org/act/2026-07/...

What happens when nonproliferation rules don’t quite line up? New & #openaccess in the NPR by Kristoffer Burck, Barry de Vries, & Sannimari Veini on the BWC, CWC, & UNSCR 1540. They explain why more rules don’t always automatically mean better domestic legal implementation. doi.org/10.1080/1073...

"[R]espondents prioritized reducing civilian harm over maximizing the probability of success. [...] This suggests that collateral damage can directly erode the political support needed to sustain military campaigns over time." @herzogsm.bsky.social @laurensukin.bsky.social

What Makes a Weapon Too Horrific to Use?

Editor's note: The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. Rules governing warfare are nearly as ancient as warfare itself. In the Iliad, Achilles loses favor with the gods an...

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NATO’s Nuclear types: Vulnerability, defense investment, and alliance strategy preferences doi.org/10.31374/sjm... Paper in @sjms.bsky.social by Stephen Herzog, J. Luis Rodriguez and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @laurensukin.bsky.social

NATO’s Nuclear Types: Vulnerability, Defense Investment, and Alliance Strategy Preferences | Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

Members of nuclear alliances face myriad and complex demands. They must ensure that their nuclear-armed patron maintains adequate capabilities and resolve, while avoiding entrapment and entanglement.…

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My non-fiction debut "We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West" is out today. It's the result of years of research, travel to a dozen countries, and countless conversations. Thank you @wwnorton.com and everyone who supported me along the way. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

1/2 Why do members of the US public reject some weapons even when they “work”? In a new piece for Irregular Warfare Initiative, @laurensukin.bsky.social, Dave Allison, & I explain why weapon choice & civilian harm can make force politically unsustainable. www.irregularwarfare.org/what-makes-a...

What Makes a Weapon Too Horrific to Use?

Editor's note: The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. Rules governing warfare are nearly as ancient as warfare itself. In the Iliad, Achilles loses favor with the gods an...

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1/2 Why do members of the US public reject some weapons even when they “work”? In a new piece for Irregular Warfare Initiative, @laurensukin.bsky.social, Dave Allison, & I explain why weapon choice & civilian harm can make force politically unsustainable. www.irregularwarfare.org/what-makes-a...

What Makes a Weapon Too Horrific to Use?

Editor's note: The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. Rules governing warfare are nearly as ancient as warfare itself. In the Iliad, Achilles loses favor with the gods an...

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In a new NPR article, Daesoo Kim, Jin Yoo, & Ku Kang introduce “exposure and disclosure” as a tool for countering CBRN threats. They use cases to show how revealing clandestine activities may impose costs that reduce the coercive value of CBRN. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New #openaccess article in @sjms.bsky.social w/@jluisrodriguez.com & @laurensukin.bsky.social. We develop a typology of NATO member "nuclear types" & test w/survey of over 10k people across 10 countries. Cohesion depends on recognizing & managing differences. sjms.nu/articles/10....

New in the NPR! Peyman Asadzade analyzes 242 Khamenei speeches on Iran’s internal nuclear narrative. He identifies trends of sovereignty, scientific progress, critiques of Western double standards, and religious restraint. The article asks what survives after 2026. doi.org/10.1080/1073...

New #openaccess article in @sjms.bsky.social w/@jluisrodriguez.com & @laurensukin.bsky.social. We develop a typology of NATO member "nuclear types" & test w/survey of over 10k people across 10 countries. Cohesion depends on recognizing & managing differences. sjms.nu/articles/10....

🖊️ New policy paper, co-authored by our scholar Dominika Kunertova: How should NATO adapt to the age of full spectrum drone warfare? How can member states build a doctrine and supply chains to deploy drones more effectively than their adversaries? academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Why do nuclear weapons still shape US public attitudes toward nuclear energy? Sidra Hamidi traces how anti-nuclear movements forged this connection. She explores how today’s pro-nuclear advocates are turning against that framing to advance the “irrationality” of nuclear fear. doi.org/10.1080/1073...

No nukes: the evolving discourse of nuclear dualism

Why does the connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy continue to drive public attitudes towards nuclear energy in the United States? Conventional views on the dual (military and civil...

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MTA Visiting Scholar @herzogsm.bsky.social & co-authors write for @thebulletin.org about the new Asilomar Process. It aims to engage governments, AI firms, & security experts in dialogue to reduce AI-enabled risks in the nuclear & biological domains. thebulletin.org/2026/06/ai-i...

AI is changing biological and nuclear risks; governance must change accordingly

Seven principles from a recent Asilomar conference address how AI will affect nuclear and biological threats.

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Stephen Herzog, Dominika Kunertova: NATO and Emerging Technologies: The Alliance's Shifting Approach to Military Innovation https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00437 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00437 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.00437

Delighted to see this Portuguese-language review of Atomic Backfires in Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa. Thanks for reading! @mitpress.bsky.social @gdavidarceneaux.bsky.social rbed.abedef.org/rbed/article...

Quando a política nuclear falha

Resenha crítica da obra Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail, organizada por Stephen Herzog, Giles David Arceneaux e Ariel F. W. Petrovics, publicada pela MIT Press em 2026. O texto discute a ...

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New in the NPR: Frank von Hippel & Eli Sanchez examine the political and technical debate over designing future US naval reactors for proliferation-resistant low-enriched uranium. doi.org/10.1080/1073...

The US debate over designing future US naval reactors to be fueled with proliferation-resistant low-enriched uranium

In 1974, India tested a “peaceful nuclear explosive” using plutonium that had been separated from irraditated research-reactor fuel in a “reprocessing” plant designed with the help of a US company....

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Delighted to see this Portuguese-language review of Atomic Backfires in Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa. Thanks for reading! @mitpress.bsky.social @gdavidarceneaux.bsky.social rbed.abedef.org/rbed/article...

Quando a política nuclear falha

Resenha crítica da obra Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail, organizada por Stephen Herzog, Giles David Arceneaux e Ariel F. W. Petrovics, publicada pela MIT Press em 2026. O texto discute a ...

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In April, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies hosted over 100 experts to discuss how AI may affect nuclear and biological weapons. The meeting launched a new Asilomar Process to develop practical safeguards for AI-related nuclear and biological risks, involving seven key principles.

AI is changing biological and nuclear risks; governance must change accordingly

Seven principles from a recent Asilomar conference address how AI will affect nuclear and biological threats.

thebulletin.org

In @thebulletin.org, a team introduces principles underlying the Asilomar Process: a new ongoing effort to connect governments, WMD experts, & frontier AI developers in early governance dialogue. More to come! @douglasbshaw.bsky.social @allyberke.bsky.social thebulletin.org/2026/06/ai-i...

AI is changing biological and nuclear risks; governance must change accordingly

Seven principles from a recent Asilomar conference address how AI will affect nuclear and biological threats.

thebulletin.org

In @thebulletin.org, a team introduces principles underlying the Asilomar Process: a new ongoing effort to connect governments, WMD experts, & frontier AI developers in early governance dialogue. More to come! @douglasbshaw.bsky.social @allyberke.bsky.social thebulletin.org/2026/06/ai-i...

AI is changing biological and nuclear risks; governance must change accordingly

Seven principles from a recent Asilomar conference address how AI will affect nuclear and biological threats.

thebulletin.org

Received my author's copy of Stephen Herzog, Giles Arceneaux, and Ariel Petrovics (eds.) "Atomic Backfires: Why Nuclear Policies Fail." Thanks to @herzogsm.bsky.social for ensuring its safe arrival in Norway! Check out the Open Access edition here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Join Pugwash & @managingtheatom.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social for an NPT RevCon side event at UN HQ in New York next Friday. We'll discuss implications of @mitpress.bsky.social book "Atomic Backfires" for preserving the NPT. www.belfercenter.org/event/preser... @dbsalisbury.bsky.social

Enjoyed getting a Google alert for once — a nice little capsule review of my book ("meticulous and enthralling"), and two others, by Lawrence Freedman, in Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/thre...

Three Books on Nuclear Weapons

Books by Wellerstein and Holloway, and an edited collected from Herzog, Arceneaux, and Petrovics review nuclear history and policy.

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☢️ 1/3 What makes a weapon too horrific to use? Our researcher @laurensukin.bsky.social & her colleagues David Allison & @herzogsm.bsky.social fielded a survey experiment on a U.S. sample, investigating public support for use of different weapon types. Open access: academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

In our new issue, an #OpenAccess article by Robert Reardon analyzes U.S. efforts during the Cold War to persuade South Korea to end its nuclear weapons program. It's based on archival material, including recently declassified government documents. doi.org/10.1080/1073...

Civilian nuclear technology transfers as nonproliferation leverage: a reexamination of South Korea’s nuclear-weapons program

This article draws on archival material, including recently declassified government documents, to examine the 1975–76 US effort to persuade South Korea to end its nuclear-weapons program. Contrary ...

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DPIR's Lauren Sukin has co-authored a new paper in the Journal of Peace Research in which she argues that people judge military strikes less by outcomes and more by the type of weapon used: https://academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopres/xjag001/8524883

1/4 IR research on so-called “taboo” weapons often focuses on individual systems or very limited comparisons. In new @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social work w/Dave Allison and @laurensukin.bsky.social, we compare aversions across a broader range of weapons (6). #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

Our new (open access) paper investigates weapons aversion across systems. We comprehensively compare attitudes about the use of cyber, conventional, cluster, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, showing a clear preference hierarchy and lending insight into the underlying causes of aversion.

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1/4 IR research on so-called “taboo” weapons often focuses on individual systems or very limited comparisons. In new @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social work w/Dave Allison and @laurensukin.bsky.social, we compare aversions across a broader range of weapons (6). #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/jopr...