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Gareth Rhys Williams

@garethrhys.bsky.social
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Formerly OPCW, Dstl, and FCDO 🇺🇳 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🌎 Currently a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI International Security, Disarmament, and all things Chemical Weapons ☠️ Cymro Alltud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was great to see you again @snolke.bsky.social and take part in this important discussion.
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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
❓️genuine question Importance of economic growth for prosperity is clear, but is current instability inhibiting growth? Can business make long-term decisions in environment of constant "reset" What are the long-term implications of the political instability? @lewisgoodall.com @iandunt.bsky.social
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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Genuine question for journos: Is the current political ‘hysteria’ partly driven by a media still hooked on the adrenaline of the post‑2016 era? If so, does that suggest a deeper issue — that stable government may no longer be possible in a landscape addicted to perpetual drama? @lewisgoodall.com
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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We welcomed our Royal Patron HM The King to @RUSI_org to mark 50 years that HRH The Duke of Kent has been our President. RUSI was the first think tank in the world founded by the first Duke of Wellington in 1831 - and now chaired by the current Duke! An old Institute doing cutting edge research.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.
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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The Project Anthracite team @rusi.bsky.social has been busy! Our latest report, a technical assessment of raw materials required for CW production, part of a wider series assessing North Korea's CW capabilities, is out! Thanks to Global Affairs Canada for funding the work. See the link below 👇🏻
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🚨New report, 'Raw Materials for Potential Chemical Warfare Agents: Technical Assessment 1' by the Project Anthracite Team is out now!
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Raw Materials for Potential Chemical Warfare Agents: Technical Assessment 1
This report outlines the chemical steps required to produce key precursor chemicals required to support chemical weapons. It considers the upstream and downstream processing steps from raw materials, ...
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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 03/01/2025
Parish notice: am looking for a couple of people (ideally grad students with pol science or history background) to help me out with some research for a project I’m working on. Will pay for the time. DM if interested or send on to someone if you think would fit the bill.
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lucygobag.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Struggling for a Christmas Present? Pop this in their stocking
Book - When The Dust Settles
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨Following the news that the @nca-uk.bsky.social has uncovered a multi-billion-dollar Russian money laundering network, RUSI's @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social provides her analysis below.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The headline: “Whitehall reverts to working from home” The reality: “The average attendance rate across departments from the period last year was 57 per cent, while this year it is 69 per cent.”
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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
As someone who has recently moved to live on top of this vast salt reserve, this is a fascinating thread (especially for me, as I've been trying to learn a bit about the salty surrounding industry)
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Gareth Rhys Williams @garethrhys.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Read a commentary piece by @lenniep.bsky.social and myself for @rusi.bsky.social, exploring the options available to States Parties after OPCW finds evidence of CW use in Ukraine 🇺🇦
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NoChemLen @lenniep.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
RUSI's latest report as part of the picture to assess the DPRK's CW capability. rusi.org/explore-our-...
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R&D Areas to the North of Hamhung: North Korea’s Chemical Facilities: Site Profile 3
The third in a series of site profiles examines academic and research and development buildings in the Hamhung Area of North Korea.
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