Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I see that Silo Season 3 couldn't help but have itself a little nuclear sublime ... tsk tsk! 000
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Had 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/...cia.gov 110
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"All this prolonged exposure to radiation is making me thirsty" 000
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It 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 010
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Over 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...youtube.comStealth Meets Spotlight: B‑21 Blows Out 250 Candles to Celebrate America's BirthdayYouTube video by Northrop Grumman 110
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Mil 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 000
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Cruelly, 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 270
Reposted by Cameron HunterMatthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 18/06/2026tremble at the power of the NAND gate! see how it replicates human thought! are we not but grass and goats? 1627
Reposted by Cameron HunterChenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 15/06/2026glad 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...cambridge.orgRace, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses | Review of International Studies | Cambridge CoreRace, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses - Volume 52 Issue 3 0125
Reposted by Cameron HunterJames Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The 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... 3208
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Trump administration continues to suggest speed-running the alternative timeline from Fallout 010
Reposted by Cameron HunterMirko 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'. ⬇️⬇️ 0136
Reposted by Cameron HunterChenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 25/05/2026I 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... 0143
Reposted by Cameron HunterJohanna Rodehau-Noack @jrodehaun.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Wrote 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....tandfonline.comGenerative AI in the Political Science Classroom: Bringing Politics Back InLarge 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... 0119
Reposted by Cameron HunterSebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Check 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... 05421
Reposted by Cameron HunterDecker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social · 13/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/horsdoeu...open.substack.comSiloed Silos and Analytical FailuresPictured: the most devious counter-intelligence tool ever devised. 0101
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Wonderful 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. 022
Reposted by Cameron HunterBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026WHIGS 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 🧵👇 23710
Reposted by Cameron HunterAstropolitics Working Group @astropoliticswg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Don'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...bisa.ac.ukEmpire of the stars—not yet? China as a ‘partial’ great power in space- Astropolitics | BISA- Astropolitics Working Group 021
Reposted by Cameron HunterJonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 20/12/2025LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event 719398
Reposted by Cameron HunterBrian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Some 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 1296
Reposted by Cameron HunterAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025So, 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...doomsdaymachines.net"The Most Awful Responsibility"My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released next week 912046
Reposted by Cameron HunterAndrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 01/12/2025A 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. 24916
Reposted by Cameron HunterSinan 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." 142
Reposted by Cameron HunterKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Wait 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)vice.comAirplane ModeIn a world perpetually on the brink of nuclear destruction, there can only be so many false alarms—right? 1182
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Can'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... 110
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Theodor Adorno liked wombats, and so should you 131
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025At 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 🤦♂️ 020
Reposted by Cameron HunterAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I 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...doomsdaymachines.net"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible."The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay" 4358
Reposted by Cameron HunterBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Thinking 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 024
Reposted by Cameron HunterGil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/20251/ 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 8773093371
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Just spectacular how little the US debate on China's space tech has moved on since 1958. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe Forgotten First Iteration of the ‘Chinese Space Threat’ to US National SecurityExisting analyses of US-China relations in matters of space policy have overwhelmingly focused on the contemporary relationship, with a tendency to re… 041
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I don't want to have to write a paper on cuteness in Chinese nuclear politics, but the data are so good! 🙃 130
Reposted by Cameron HunterHans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 04/09/2025My 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/...fas.orgNuclear Weapons At China's 2025 Victory Day Parade - Federation of American ScientistsThis buildup appears to contradict China's obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and could well stimulate nuclear buildups in the United States and India. 42412
Reposted by Cameron HunterChenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 03/09/2025today'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) 5329
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Typing 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". 020
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Go and work for my old boss! The subject matter might be depressing but Drew is very supportive ☺️ 061
Reposted by Cameron HunterTrent Hone @honer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025People 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. 1101
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Making 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 111
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025As ever, Sebastian has wise words for us on wargaming 👇 120
Reposted by Cameron HunterAndrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Lanyue descent test video. Via: m.weibo.cn/detail/51973... 32711
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The irony is that we'd happily play a good board game where you have to keep your garden tidy 120
Reposted by Cameron HunterBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Hopefully 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. 151
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Had 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... 020
Cameron Hunter @cameronhunter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Why 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. 071