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Daniel Salisbury

@dbsalisbury.bsky.social
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Senior Fellow for Nuclear Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

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Freeman Air and Space Institute @fasikcl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
How can Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) continue to successfully operate despite Western embargo? Read as @dbsalisbury.bsky.social explores how Russia has adopted a multi-pronged embargo response, including illicit procurement & strategic international partnerships. www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/a...
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Stephen Herzog @herzogsm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
3/8 You can read more about the book here (mitpress.mit.edu/978026205185...) & see early reader comments from Vipin Narang, @malfridbh.bsky.social, & Keir Lieber. Now to the content!
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Atomic Backfires
The existential risks posed to the world by nuclear weapons are growing. Efforts to halt nuclear proliferation, manage crises, promote arms control, and buil...
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Stephen Herzog @herzogsm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
2/8 Editors: me, @gdavidarceneaux.bsky.social, Ariel Petrovics. Powerhouse contributors: Dave Allison, Tyler Bowen, @dbsalisbury.bsky.social, Binn Cho, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, Sarah Bidgood, @jjjcameron.bsky.social, @professorrdg.bsky.social, Eliza Gheorghe, Ulrich Kühn, @laurensukin.bsky.social.
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Stephen Herzog @herzogsm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
1/8 Later this year from @mitpress.bsky.social in @belfercenter.bsky.social's Studies in International Security book series-- Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail. This is a sobering edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them.
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EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament @eunpdc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🎧 Tune in to the latest episode of #TheArmsControlPoseur by #IISS featuring Dr @bollfrass.bsky.social, Dr Jingdong Yuan, Dr @dbsalisbury.bsky.social & @nktpnd.bsky.social on North Korea’s nuclear posture & what’s next for diplomacy. 🧵👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/2ja3b34z #EUNPDC #NonProliferation #ArmsControl
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EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament @eunpdc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Featuring Dr @bollfrass.bsky.social, Dr Jingdong Yuan, Dr @dbsalisbury.bsky.social & @nktpnd.bsky.social. They unpack North Korea’s nuclear rise, failed diplomacy & arms control risks. 👉http://tinyurl.com/2ja3b34z #EUNPDC #NuclearWeapons #NonProliferation #ArmsControl
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Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The first public talk on my forthcoming book #KGB LITERATI will be at Stanford University on May 2. Everyone has heard about Western spies-turned-writers, such as Fleming, Greene, or Le Carré, but who were their Soviet equivalents? Come and find out! events.stanford.edu/event/kgb-li...
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KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union
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EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament @eunpdc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎙️ New Podcast Episode: How has the 🇬🇧’s nuclear programme evolved? Listen to The #ArmsControlPoseur as Dr.@bollfrass.bsky.social, @mgmessmer.bsky.social, @dbsalisbury.bsky.social & Sebastian Brixey-Williams explore the UK’s nuclear past & future. 🔗 Listen now: tinyurl.com/bd2uzrv8
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S4.E3 Better know a nuke: The United Kingdom
How has the nuclear weapons programme of the United Kingdom evolved from its origins during World War II to its strategic choices during the Cold War? With the current international order in disarray,
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Great to see this in print w/ @nknewsorg.bsky.social: what was the UK’s role in North Korea’s development of military hovercraft? A story I’ve pursued in archives and on the UK’s south coast over a couple of years: www.nknews.org/share/5842ec10
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Great to see this in print w/ @nknewsorg.bsky.social: what was the UK’s role in North Korea’s development of military hovercraft? A story I’ve pursued in archives and on the UK’s south coast over a couple of years: www.nknews.org/share/5842ec10
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Filip Kovacevic @chekistmonitor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Exclusive: My Book Cover Revealed! KGB LITERATI: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) #spies #writers #KGB
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Great to see our latest journal article published in @twqgw.bsky.social ! In the paper Aaron Arnold and I conceptualize the shift in DPRK sanctions evasion towards "remote sanctions busting". The article is available free for the next 3 months on the TWQ website: twq.elliott.gwu.edu/files/2024/1...
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In my latest piece for @nknewsorg.bsky.social I consider what North Korean WMD secrets that might emerge from Syria following Assad's fall? www.nknews.org/pro/how-assa...
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Great to share my latest historical piece for @nknewsorg.bsky.social — the story of how the DPRK used its embassy in East Berlin to illicitly procure 86 Hughes Helicopters in the mid-1980s. www.nknews.org/2024/11/how-...
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How North Korean diplomats illicitly acquired US helicopters for the Kim regime | NK News
The North Korean Embassy in Berlin has been the site of sanctions evasion controversy in recent years, hosting a hostel found to have breached sanctions by paying rent of 38,000 euros a month to the D...
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Great to share my latest historical piece for @nknewsorg.bsky.social — the story of how the DPRK used its embassy in East Berlin to illicitly procure 86 Hughes Helicopters in the mid-1980s. www.nknews.org/2024/11/how-...
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How North Korean diplomats illicitly acquired US helicopters for the Kim regime | NK News
The North Korean Embassy in Berlin has been the site of sanctions evasion controversy in recent years, hosting a hostel found to have breached sanctions by paying rent of 38,000 euros a month to the D...
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The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The Society for Intelligence History (SIH) is up and running here on BlueSky. We provide connections for scholars and practitioners interested in all things intelligence and historical. Please check out our Feb. 25 conference here: www.intelligencehistory.org/conferences
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Annual Conference | NASIH
Information about our upcoming annual conference
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Could make a movie with this cast of characters - Instagram model denies transferring precision optics to Russia to aid war effort.
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UK war tech sent to Russia by Insta model's firm, documents seen by BBC show - BBC News
£1.6m of British kit shipped to companies tied to Russian military despite sanctions, customs documents claim.
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Totally missed this September 2024 press release where the US State Department called out RT for arms dealing and illicit procurement. Seemingly got crowd-funding efforts, but also importing goods in small quantities to avoid unwanted scrutiny. www.state.gov/alerting-the...
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Excited to share this piece based on archival material I found last summer— North Korea expressed an interest in buying two Concordes in the mid-1970s — the full obscure story now on NK News: www.nknews.org/2024/05/flig...
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Flight of the Concorde? North Korea’s brief flirtation with supersonic airliners | NK News
For all its advancements in ballistic missile technology, North Korea is hardly known for excellence in the realm of commercial air travel, maintaining a ragtag fleet of aging Soviet jets that are onl...
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
An excellent piece of reporting - 20% of US-origin parts now heading to Russia via the Maldives. Even the smallest jurisdictions can act as transhipment hubs.
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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
My book Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative is officially published today! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254736...
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Weapons in Space
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond.In Mar...
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Now 2,300 photos in albums including: -Trinity Site (2018) -Titan II Missile Museum (2017) -Los Alamos & Sandia Ads -Defense Industry ads MORE SOON! flickr.com/nuclearanthro Enable my work: patreon.com/nuclearanthro paypal.me/nuclearanthro #PhDLife
Photo of a white man with brown hair in a tie dye shirt & white & black camo pants standing next to Trinity Site obelisk with background of desert and mountains.From above, image of a Titan II ICBM in its silo.Advertisement titled “about men and weapons” by Sandia Corporation featuring a cannon at dick height of a drawn napoleonic looking soldier.Union carbide ad of white man hands holding stylised atoms and titled “splitting atoms…under control”
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Excited to share this piece based on archival material I found last summer— North Korea expressed an interest in buying two Concordes in the mid-1970s — the full obscure story now on NK News: www.nknews.org/2024/05/flig...
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Flight of the Concorde? North Korea’s brief flirtation with supersonic airliners | NK News
For all its advancements in ballistic missile technology, North Korea is hardly known for excellence in the realm of commercial air travel, maintaining a ragtag fleet of aging Soviet jets that are onl...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 04/03/2024
"[C]losing loopholes that facilitate smuggling, money laundering, and transnational crime will help sanctions to bite across the board." Aaron Arnold and @dbsalisbury.bsky.social examine where the West should focus its sanctions efforts two years into the Ukraine War.
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The Sanctions-Busting Architects: Moscow’s Preparations for the West’s Sanctions
Moscow’s long practice and tolerance of illicit activities makes Russia well placed to bust Western sanctions. Two years on from Putin’s illegal invasion, what more can be done?
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Particularly excited to share this piece — a review of technology-themed beers for the holidays! Bringing together two areas of interest (dare I say expertise even!) @bindinghook — thanks to the team, a lot of fun to write!
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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Check out the Binding Hook hoppy holidays guide to technology-themed beers for the season’s pour decisions by @dbsalisbury.bsky.social bindinghook.com/articles-bin...
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Covert Hops - Binding hook
The Binding Hook hoppy holidays guide to technology-themed beers for the season’s pour decisions
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Pleased to share some thoughts on North Korea’s evolving diplomatic sanctions busting networks — shaped by DPRK’s tactical adaptation and more strategic and gloomy geopolitical shifts. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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Taylor Grossman @tgrossman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Great piece by @dbsalisbury.bsky.social — a must read on Russian plundering of Western tech!
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Great to have a piece published in the new @bindinghook.bsky.social publication on launch day!
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Max Smeets @maxwsmeets.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Russia has been plundering Europe’s high tech for decades www.bindinghook.com/articles-hooked-on-trends/europe-will-struggle-to-curtail-russian-tech-theft/
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Alex Bollfrass @bollfrass.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Big day for an ambitious new outlet for digital/emerging tech and security outlet.
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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
It’s officially Binding Hook launch day! Learn more about our mission from James Shires and Max Smeets @maxwsmeets.bsky.social , our Managing Editors: bindinghook.com/articles-bin...
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Introducing Binding Hook
Managing Editors Max Smeets and James Shires introduce our new platform…
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Max Smeets @maxwsmeets.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I am really excited to launch Binding Hook with an amazing editorial team. We aim to provide a platform that sheds light on the synergy and friction between technology and security. www.bindinghook.com
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Daniel Salisbury @dbsalisbury.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Good to see this in print! On the twentieth anniversary of the BBC China interdiction that helped bring down the Khan network, I consider the future of nuclear proliferation networks and why we need to keep an eye on North Korea. rusi.org/explore-our-...
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