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Stephen Young @atomicwonk.bsky.social Advocate for more sensible nuclear weapons policies, firm believer that we should not live in a world where hundreds of millions could be dead in an hour. Associate Director for Government Affairs, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Tom Bielefeld @tombielefeld.bsky.social Researcher/Consultant/Trainer #NuclearSecurity & #Nuclear #Nonproliferation; @INS_Forum; @WINS_org; formerly Harvard's @BelferCenter; Chronotype/B, from #Bremen (Contact via https://sites.google.com/site/tombielefeld/)
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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.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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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
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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
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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.
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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.
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Jordan Hibbs @jordanhibbs.bsky.social Senior Nuclear Policy Advisor | 📍Washington, DC | Personal Account - Views are my own.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate.
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