Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social Dog shepherd.
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social turnip shepherd & bad person
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Madeline Berzak @madelineberzak.bsky.social girl w the curly hair. i think about how we think about big risks. director nuke risk @uchicago XLab | @miis npts, @americanu alum | fmr. @JamesMartinCNS minion
Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
John Ford @jfjord.bsky.social Judt-Stancilst Rortarian. Taxation grants citizenship.
Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social Data Visualization. Ex-Planet & NASA Earth Observatory. Blue Marble, Earth at Night, color, cartography, occasionally skewed views of Earth. Looking for a job.- H Greg @hexive.bsky.social
LA Guettler is not feeling very clever @laguettler.bsky.social Big ol Q
Author of:
Red Darkling
Bonkpocalypse
Vacation on Planet Glor
The Bone Clock
www.laguettler.com
FUCK LINKTR.EE
Lindsay Rand @lrand11.bsky.social Research scholar @ Berkeley Risk and Security Lab || Carnegie Non-Resident ||socio-technical analyses for nuclear, quantum, and “emerging” tech || PhD from UMD
Lauren Sukin @laurensukin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College, University of Oxford | Nuclear Weapons | Alliance Politics | Emerging Technology | Contact: lauren.sukin@politics.ox.ac.uk |
Andreas Persbo @persbo.bsky.social Programme Director at the One Earth Future Foundation, formerly with UNIDIR, European Leadership Network, and VERTIC.
Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social 🎙️ Co-Host @sicherheitspod.de
🤓 Head of Research @metis.unibw.de
🐦 https://twitter.com/drfranksauer/ 👈 inactive
🦣 http://mastodontech.de/@drfranksauer 👈 bridged
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
@douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social Imaginary provost of the make-believe university of human survival; promoting the creation and dissemination of knowledge to prevent nuclear war
EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Former Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. Chaotic Good. @RFERL
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Graham J. @grahamj.bsky.social Defense, space, intel | trains, cities, pugs, warhammer | learning 廣東話 | the good Graham/tall one
Old site: @grahamwjenkins, @lowheadways
about.me/grahamjenkins
LA via DC via Boston
Yozh @lemmon.bsky.social 
Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
Posts mine, but if you see something you think you can use to get me in trouble I did it on my own time and my own device, so good luck
Constanze Stelzenmüller @constelz.bsky.social Director CUSE, Germany explainer etc. @ Brookings; FT contributing columnist; Wizards Fan (I know). When the going gets tough, the tough go blonde. Pic: Marc Darchinger. Views my own, people.
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Matthew Harries @matthewharries.bsky.social Research director at the Labour Movement for Europe. Previously director of nuclear policy at RUSI, managing editor of Survival/senior fellow at IISS, and specialist for the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) @olyaoliker.bsky.social Director, European Security @crisisgroup.org / Feminist / Migrant / ❤️ punk rock (but not only) / Opinions own / Endorsements clearly marked / podcast: https://www.crisisgroup.org/pod/europe/war-peace
Elena Chernenko @elenachernenko.bsky.social Kommersant newspaper, special correspondent (based in Moscow). Personal area of interest: arms control, non-proliferation, cyber diplomacy. Views are my own. 
Steven Aoki @seminonpro.bsky.social Not a disk jockey. Retired from US State Dept & Dept of Energy after working nuclear nonproliferation and counterterrorism as a senior civil servant. Forgot most of what I learned getting a physics PhD but hopefully retain a scientist’s respect for facts.
Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist
Foraging & homebrew
Bluesky open-source contributor
Decentralizing systems (human & digital)
Opinions are my own
📍Vermont
Prof Claire Corkhill @clairecorkhill.bsky.social Professor of Mineralogy at University of Bristol, HMG Advisor. Aspirational TV presenter. Step-parent. Trail runner / squelcher. Specialises in geological disposal of radioactive waste.
Samir @obretix.bsky.social geospatial IT – OSINT/IMINT
Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. New York via Amsterdam and Oregon.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Theo Milonopoulos @theomilo.bsky.social Assistant professoring. PhD @Columbia. Prev. @ClementsCenter, @perryworldhouse. IR, civ-mil, tech. Star Wars, Lego, newspapers, coffee, dogs. He/him. Personal Account. Views mine.
Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder. Biker, climber, runner, skier, homebrewer, writer, coder.
email: alex [dot] newhouse [at] colorado [dot] edu
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴🏳️🌈 🚀🛰
Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n
“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Sky Sentry @skysentry.bsky.social Moderation Lists
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Fred Kaplan @fredmkaplan.bsky.social Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social Covering Asia at The Washington Post. Mom to two needy cats & a rambunctious golden retriever. michelle.lee@washpost.com
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
Support the work of Jonathan's Space Report:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
Emma Smith @ameliairheart.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ she/her
Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social Lecturer in optical Space Situational Awareness at Delft Technical University, faculty of Aerospace. Spy sats, missiles, meteorites, asteroids. Asteroid (183294). Lapsed Archaeologist (PhD). Rowing. CFS. Opinions my own.
blog: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.c
Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social I'm an editor/correspondent for NPR. Mostly smart on the radio. Mostly stupid on everywhere else.
ChatGPT describes me as: "Aerospace sleuth, nuclear nerd and NPR Superfan — with a side of surreal humor."
Signal: gbrumfiel.13
https://geoffbrumfiel.net/
Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social Geoscientist (Computational Fluid Dynamics, Seismology, Tsunami++). Norgesvenn, Internationalist, European. Nor/Eng. Works for NGI but views here strictly mine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7822-0244
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social 
Dave Kang @daveckang.bsky.social Going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm!
(Also: USSF "National B" license, when "A" was as high as it went.)
https://www.daveckang.net/
Sam G @samthegeek.net Somewhat Coy
@amannes.bsky.social @amannes.bsky.social 
@sydseiler.bsky.social @sydseiler.bsky.social 
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
David @puca.bsky.social Wolkenjägerblicker
Colin Zwirko @colinzwirko.bsky.social Analyst at NK News / NK Pro, investigations and analysis about North Korea and satellite imagery, state media, military, Kim family developments etc.
https://www.nknews.org/content_author/colin-zwirko
Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity.bsky.social IT Security, cynically aged. Maths. Some nukes. Longing for Symbolics and Connection Machines. Keeper of Ancient Computing Lore. Wassenaar intangible Ⓐ
Astropolitics Working Group @astropoliticswg.bsky.social We are the Astropolitics Working Group at the British International Studies Association (BISA). We are a group of mostly Politics/IR scholars focusing on or interested in space politics/security and adjacent fields. Webpage: https://tinyurl.com/yj7z3t3c
Andrew Carnegie Foundation @carnegie.org Supporting ladders of opportunity and a more peaceful world.
Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Formerly Carnegie Corporation of New York.
🔗 Learn more at carnegie.org
📩 Subscribe at carnegie.org/stay-informed/
Carl Robichaud @carlrobi.bsky.social Program Officer on nuclear policy at Longview Philanthropy (http://longview.org). Opinions are my own.
Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social Words at Janes, GEOINT consultant.
James Igoe Walsh @jamesigoewalsh.com Professor of Political Science, Data Science, & Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Formerly US National Science Foundation.
https://www.jamesigoewalsh.com
Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social Politics, memes, occasional duck updates. Bluesky's premier advocate for Bushidoliberalism 🫡 🗡️⛩️
Designs (mostly) inspired by and derived from 19th century political Americana at 👁 wideawakes.army 👁
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Steve Trimble @thedewline.bsky.social I’m the Defense Editor at Aviation Week.
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Outrider Foundation @outrider.org We support multimedia storytelling about nuclear threats and climate change 🌎 Read our newsletter: https://outrider.org/newsletter- S David Schmalz @schmoops.bsky.social writer, journalist, raconteur | @mcweekly alum | joy enthusiast
Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social Energy Professional, Storage. Entropy arbitrageur.
Personal Account. Weaponized Curiosity, with vibes
Core Values:
https://youtu.be/-hDPK865N9I&t=57s
&
http://youtu.be/tHPHy2cvDOA&t=34s
&
http://youtu.be/x5rh8NNLHV0&t=28s
Corey Hinderstein @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.
Mike Yass @mikeyass.bsky.social WW3 has already started it’s just unevenly distributed | Aerospace, AI, and a real-life #polycythemiavera mutant.
Al Mauroni @progmil.bsky.social NatSec analyst, WMD and nukes, sci-fi enthusiast, gamer 
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
lbSterling @poundsterling.bsky.social Software engineer, transit enjoyer, sometimes I climb rocks and get in sword fights. All opinions are my own.
Nell Greenfieldboyce @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social I’m a science journalist who is drawn to the transient and strange.
Das Doak @dasdoak.bsky.social Gentleman adventurer, mostly decent bastard, only slightly pessimistic optimist. I ride bikes, tinker, program, and read way too much.
White, cis, straight, US male if you need the context. It's a fucked demographic; wasn't my choice to be born into it.
Security Dilemmas @securitydilemmas.bsky.social I'm Richard Purcell, Louisiana native, proud UNC alum, former Capitol Hill staffer, SAIS grad, and (hopefully) keen observer of foreign policy and national security. Nukes are my specialty.
Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookings.edu. Still not the Senate Parliamentarian.
@cormacrelf.bsky.social @cormacrelf.bsky.social 
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Dr. Taylor Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social Virginia Tech Postdoc (STS), nuclear energy/nonpro. Former SRO instructor nuke worker. he/him.
https://tritiummatters.org
Diss:
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/120638
Day One:
https://fas.org/publication/fusion-energy-leadership-tritium-capacity/
Michael Duitsman @duitsmanms.bsky.social Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rocket propulsion and radiological security (usually not at the same time). Opinions my own. Faves/RTs ≠ endorsements
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
David La Boon @davidlaboon.bsky.social Anti-C Wearing Lab Rat | Nuclear Nonpro | Nerd Stuff | 🚀 | frmly @JamesMartinCNS @MIIS @CNS_Updates | @DavidLaBoon on X
Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider @jackieschneider.bsky.social Hoover Fellow, Director Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Stanford University. Research on international security, emerging technology, wargames. Views are my own. 
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Zachary Keck @zacharykeck.bsky.social Nuclear Weapons and Indo-Pacific. Former: DoD, Congress, Belfer Center, The Diplomat, others. Views mine and subject to change.
James Pearson @pearswick.press Visual Investigations Journalist at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang and cyberspace. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
- North Korea ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
📞Signal ID: pearswick.01
💻: pearswick.press
Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com Senior Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org working on nuclear weapons policy. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own.
Nuke policy starter pack! https://go.bsky.app/8jiQV43
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
Hans Kristensen @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/
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Prof@Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher@Nuclear Knowledges, Sciences Po, Paris. Senior Fellow@thebulletin.org. Author: THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging @ https://doomsdaymachines.net.