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Cameron Hunter

@cameronhunter.bsky.social
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Researching US-China in outer space and nuclear politics at the University of Copenhagen. ritualdeterrence.eu

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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I see that Silo Season 3 couldn't help but have itself a little nuclear sublime ... tsk tsk!
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Had not seen this 1985 CIA analysis of China's "tactical" nukes. Claims that Chinese military thinkers "argue that China's nuclear forces do not deter tactical nuclear war because they cannot be used effectively for retaliatory strikes in kind for Soviet use" www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"All this prolonged exposure to radiation is making me thirsty"
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It must be pointed out that rituals are more effective in person rather than in a CGI (AI assisted?) video. I doubt they could persuade Randall Collins to consult though
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Over the years working on the Ritual Deterrence project I have often been asked "What is ritual deterrence?" Northrop have now given me a nice 30 second illustrative example: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Stealth Meets Spotlight: B‑21 Blows Out 250 Candles to Celebrate America's Birthday
YouTube video by Northrop Grumman
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Mil revolutions are a question for the historians - agree hard to know in the moment. To James' point, the ideas of the "The RMA" have definitely hung around long enough to the point of overstretch. But reading the piece, you're making a point on invention vs innovation, which is a good distinction
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Cruelly, I once asked @ncrenic.bsky.social at a conference whether we would ever be able to stop talking about the RMA. The rhetoric does seem boxed-in to some kind of paradoxical "perpetual" revolution framing... We are certainly stuck with these ideas for the foreseeable
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
tremble at the power of the NAND gate! see how it replicates human thought! are we not but grass and goats?
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 15/06/2026
glad to see my 2-year-old paper is finally assigned an issue number, and what a great issue to be in (including @shadimokhtari.bsky.social's brilliant reverse SVS paper) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses - Volume 52 Issue 3
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The first thing that strikes me about the Anthropic essay is that its description of research doesn't really sound like research as I think of it. It sounds like a set of quite narrowly defined problems compared with the originality required for genuine insight. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
Claude is getting better at steering research sessions towards research findings. We examined real Claude Code sessions (between January and March 2026) where Anthropic researchers were working with Claude on an open-ended investigative problem, like figuring out why a training run kept crashing, or why a model scored poorly on a benchmark. In each case, we found a moment where the researcher took a detour: they pursued a direction that sent the session sideways before it eventually got back on track. We then showed various Claude models only the work from before the session went off-course and asked what it would do next. A separate Claude that was able to see how the session eventually turned out then judged whether the AI or the human suggested the better next step.8
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Trump administration continues to suggest speed-running the alternative timeline from Fallout
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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨🚨 Italo Brandimarte and I have a new article out in International Political Sociology! It is part of the IPS@20 Anniversary Special Issue and is open access at: academic.oup.com/ips/article/.... We call for de-centering the human in temporal world political analysis via 'Deep Global Futures'. ⬇️⬇️
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 25/05/2026
I just discovered that my book is available on Kindle and Google Play at a relatively reasonable price (yep no one told me that and I had to find out myself) there's also free sample to read, in case it could be useful play.google.com/store/books/... www.amazon.co.uk/Easting-West...
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Johanna Rodehau-Noack @jrodehaun.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Wrote a thing on why buying into the “generative AI is inevitable so we need to stuff it into all crevices of higher ed” narrative is not only bad pedagogy, but bad Political Science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Generative AI in the Political Science Classroom: Bringing Politics Back In
Large language models (LLMs) have disrupted higher education, prompting a wave of scholarship on generative AI in the Political Science classroom. This emerging literature largely converges in argu...
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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Check out the amazing and wide ranging free webinars on #wargaming and game design by the Georgetown University Wargaming Society. RT and share to support our ongoing work. Also let us know below which webinars have been your favorite so far! 😁 🎲 🔗 youtube.com/@georgetownu...
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Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Siloed Silos and Analytical Failures
Pictured: the most devious counter-intelligence tool ever devised.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Homer "Worst so far" meme.
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wonderful work here by @wellerstein.bsky.social and Peter Kuran. I have also used POWER OF DECISION to try and help students gain a more tangible sense that leaders really were/are prepared to use nuclear weapons. Thank you to both Wellerstein and Kuran for clarifying the film's content.
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
WHIGS IN SPACE! Or why democratisation, commercialisation, and militarisation rhetoric about space is wrong. Very happy to see my new research article published with @ejisbisa.bsky.social! The Perils of periodising astropolitics: space security and the system builders @sgiadurham.bsky.social 🧵👇
Title: The perils of periodising astropolitics: Space security and the system builders

Author: Bleddyn E. Bowen, Durham University

Abstract: Space systems are becoming an ever more important part of international security capabilities and practices. However, problematic interpretations of the Space Age are taking root in practitioner and academic circles along the contours of three sequential Space Ages. This article develops an original critique of these periodisations by applying a large technical systems approach and empirical research. It emphasises the role of space system builders and the prevalence of paradoxes in analysing space infrastructure as a method for critiquing three claims over the sweeping waves of democratisation, commercialisation, and militarisation in outer space that the periodisations make. This article proposes an alternative periodisation of a singular Global Space Age from 1957 that advances the counter-arguments that: first, power remains concentrated to a handful of space system builders rather than democratised to the many; second, that the space economy still relies on the state rather than being transferred to the private sector; and third, that the claims of sanctuary in space today ignore the spectre of space warfare that has long stalked space infrastructure. The infrastructural Global Space Age framing is offered as a useful materialist foundation for building bridges between international security, infrastructural technologies, and space security scholarship.
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Astropolitics Working Group @astropoliticswg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Don't forget to register for our next talk! Thursday 26th March, 'Empire of the stars—not yet? China as a ‘partial’ great power in space' with Dimitrios Stroikos at 14:00hrs on Zoom. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
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Empire of the stars—not yet? China as a ‘partial’ great power in space- Astropolitics | BISA
- Astropolitics Working Group
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Some deep irony to China questioning Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa over Japan’s support for Taiwan. As for me, I ask, why not self-determination for Okinawans? And also Taiwanese, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, and whoever? None of us are free until we all are, lol
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So, hey, my new book on Truman and the Bomb comes out NEXT WEEK! In this post on Doomsday Machines, I give a rundown of WHAT IT IS ABOUT, and other useful information, including the talk I am giving about it on December 16. doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-most-a...
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"The Most Awful Responsibility"
My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released next week
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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A tiny crack in a spacecraft window triggered China’s first-ever emergency launch to Tiangong space station. A CCTV article reveals what happened over 20 intense days, and why a piece of space debris smaller than 1 mm forced the emergency response.
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Sinan Chu @chusinan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"This study identifies two variations of guanxi work processes. [...] The first pattern features a style of guanxi work that stresses the declaration of pseudo-kin or friendship, ritualistic toasting and drinking, and top-down driven emotion work."
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Wait did Bigelow make a nuke movie with a North Korean ICBM launch that's somehow less realistic than my 2018 short story? www.vice.com/en/article/a... (tl;dr: Kim Jong-un tests a single ICBM, US fires several interceptors, Russian radar misses DPRK missile but seems many US missiles, nuclear war)
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Airplane Mode
In a world perpetually on the brink of nuclear destruction, there can only be so many false alarms—right?
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Can't remember where I saw it originally, maybe Grand Hotel Abyss. But it is quoted here in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Theodor Adorno liked wombats, and so should you
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
At least he's not using it in "combat situations" yet. Also love the article uses the AI dogfighter as an example in an article ostensibly about decision support 🤦‍♂️
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I was going to write something more general about Curtis LeMay, but I fell into the rabbit hole that is his bizarre memoir, “Mission with LeMay,” and felt that this was more than enough for one DOOMSDAY MACHINES post… doomsdaymachines.net/p/i-have-sou...
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"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible."
The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay"
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thinking of doing a space policy/security PhD where I and my Durham colleagues could supervise but need funding? Have a look at the NINE DTP funding programme, now open. You need approval from host department first - internal deadline 9th January. www.ninedtp.ac.uk
NINE DTP funding programme now active - full details in the link provided. First internal deadline 9th January 2026.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Just spectacular how little the US debate on China's space tech has moved on since 1958. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Forgotten First Iteration of the ‘Chinese Space Threat’ to US National Security
Existing analyses of US-China relations in matters of space policy have overwhelmingly focused on the contemporary relationship, with a tendency to re…
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I don't want to have to write a paper on cuteness in Chinese nuclear politics, but the data are so good! 🙃
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My colleagues and I here at the FAS Nuclear Information Project have posted this analysis of the nukes at the Chinese victory day parade. If you have corrections/suggestions, please let us know. fas.org/publication/...
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Nuclear Weapons At China's 2025 Victory Day Parade - Federation of American Scientists
This buildup appears to contradict China's obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and could well stimulate nuclear buildups in the United States and India.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 03/09/2025
today's weibo is the epitome of completely normalized everyday militarism... if you want to browse endless photos of missiles and see everyone repeat "打击范围覆盖全球” (strike range covers the entire globe)
A social media post from Xinhua News shows military vehicles carrying large missile launchers in formation, with Chinese text stating that the Dongfeng-5C missile’s strike range covers the globe.
social media post from People's Daily comment section, with all top voted comments repeating "worldwide coverage"A graphic from People’s Daily shows a white note pinned with a red pushpin. The handwritten-style red text in Chinese reads: “After reading, I only remembered one sentence: strike range covers the entire globe.”
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This one too
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Typing Rocket Force slogans into the pinyin input tool and its response is largely "surely not!?". Why yes, computer, I am trying to write "LOVE THE MISSILES".
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Go and work for my old boss! The subject matter might be depressing but Drew is very supportive ☺️
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Trent Hone @honer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
People exploring the future of military staffs would be well served to pay closer attention to history, especially the organization and operation of U.S. Navy staffs and how they differed from Army staffs.
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Making support material is the main use for LLMs in wargaming I'm considering. A designer can't make news bulletins for every outcome in advance. Unexpected player choice is to be encouraged! Simulated news in-game can be imperfect without harm i.e. writing off hallucinations as misinfo or error
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
As ever, Sebastian has wise words for us on wargaming 👇
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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Lanyue descent test video. Via: m.weibo.cn/detail/51973...
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The irony is that we'd happily play a good board game where you have to keep your garden tidy
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Painfully relatable
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hopefully the bingo game made people think about the terms and language we use in the space sector, how and why some phrases fall in and out of fashion, and showcased why humanities, social sciences, and arts research belong in the space sector just as much as our STEM counterparts.
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Had a very wargames-y Sunday, heading to the "Joy of Six" show at Sheffield Hallam university. I couldn't resist asking the Cold War Gone Hot gamers about their views on battlefield nuclear weapons...
Baccus 6mm scale miniatures representing troops at the battle of Lens, 1648. Blocks of pike armed troops are flanked by groups of musketeers.6mm scale miniatures representing Indian troops attacking Portuguese positions in Goa, 1961. A Canberra bomber in Indian colours stands out in the middle of the image.
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Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Why not have a slider on the model that increases or decreases the probability of it making things up instead?? Much more useful than reasoning from facts.
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