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Ben Zala

@drbeezee.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. Work focusses on great power relations and reducing nuclear dangers.

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Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Well, look what arrived in the post today - my Third Nuclear Age project merch! @erc.europa.eu It's been an absolute pleasure to have been part of the project since it started. Check out www.thethirdnuclearage.com

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Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

There is absolutely nothing limited about US missile defence plans now and it is openly aimed at 'peers' and 'near-peers' as well as 'rogues.' It is exactly why some of us have said for years that any BMD (even "limited" and only aimed at "rogues") was a worse option than none. 3/4

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Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The official US position on this from Clinton onwards just never got to grips with the fact that they couldn't guarantee that it would only ever be limited and aimed at (what the US would unilaterally decide are) "rogue" states. The 2010 response to Russian concerns illustrated this perfectly. 2/4

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Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Trump's #IronDome executive order on missile defence proves what those of us who have consistently opposed any missile defence always knew: That promises of a "limited" system were just that - promises. Stability between nuclear-armed great powers can never rest only on unilateral promises. 1/4

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Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

No idea who the old guy on the right is.

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