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Tristan A. Volpe

@tristanvolpe.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof, Naval Postgraduate School; Nonresident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Author of LEVERAGING LATENCY (bit.ly/3RXHUhM). tristanvolpe.com

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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Feels discordant to share good personal news, but I just received promotion to associate professor with tenure. Many thanks to everyone in my life—personal and professional—who helped make this possible.
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Awesome to visit the Pile-1 nuclear memorial after presenting new research on how tech shapes arming strategies at Chicago’s Workshop on International Politics with @janevaynman.bsky.social. Special thanks to @profpaulpoast.bsky.social for the post-dinner tour!
Pile-1 nuclear reactor landmark memorial site at the University of Chicago
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Last year, @tristanvolpe.bsky.social and I looked South Korea’s past and present attempts to leverage its nuclear latency for concessions from the United States (amid a broader national debate on the merits on nuclear weapons) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining
Published in The Washington Quarterly (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Awesome
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Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In @foreignaffairs.com, Ori Rabinowitz and I discuss the evolution of Russia’s balancing act between Iran and Israel as well as Russia’s role in Iranian nuclear ambitions. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/will-...
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Will Iran and Russia’s Growing Partnership Go Nuclear?
Trump’s “maximum pressure” could push Tehran and Moscow even closer.
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
*weeeeeee!*
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Syed Ali Zia Jaffery @alizia1992.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I sat down (virtually) with @marksbell.bsky.social to discuss his theory of nuclear opportunism, the nuclear lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and relevant issues pertaining to the nuclear order. youtu.be/pa0FIoHW37Q?...
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CSSPR Webinar Series: Ali Zia in Conversation With Dr. Mark S. Bell
YouTube video by CSSPR
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Jane Vaynman @janevaynman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@tristanvolpe.bsky.social and I joined this session of the Horns of a Dilemma podcast with Texas National Security Review and War on the Rocks. We talk about how characteristics of dual use technologies affect international cooperation and competition. warontherocks.com/2025/01/dual...
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Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations - War on the Rocks
In this special episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Rick Landgraf talks with Jane Vaynman and Tristan Volpe, co-authors of “Dual Use Deception: How Technology
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.
David Lynch as Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Worth taking note. But this isn’t the first such announcement from Saudi officials to pursue enrichment. They’ve been laying out ‘plans’ for years. (H/T proliferation news)
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Fiona Cunningham @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Launch day! My new book “Under the Nuclear Shadow” about China’s approach to strategic deterrence and information-age weapons is officially out with @princetonupress.bsky.social ! To read more about it and order it, see press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Under the Nuclear Shadow
How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversaries
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Syed Ali Zia Jaffery @alizia1992.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Recently, I got a chance to host Dr. @tristanvolpe.bsky.social for a discussion on his book "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology," at the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR). youtu.be/QJxZ--l8Oy4?...
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CSSPR Webinar Series: Ali Zia in Conversation with Dr. Tristan Volpe
YouTube video by CSSPR
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Oppenheimer 🤜🤛 Twin Peaks: The Return Episode 8
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This should be getting more attention
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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Big development for an agency that has historically not openly discussed its number of systems in orbit spacenews.com/nro-hits-mil...
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NRO hits milestone with more than 100 satellites in low Earth orbit
SpaceX on Dec. 17 launched the sixth batch of the U.S. spy agency’s proliferated constellation
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Great to chat about my recent book, "Leveraging Latency," with Eleonora Mattiacci. We cover a ton of ground, from how small states leverage nuclear technology to the implications for managing proliferation threats from South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Iran today: newbooksnetwork.com/leveraging-l...
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Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Annual reminder that Tinker Tailor is a Christmas movie
Movie still from Tinker Tailor Tailor Soldier Spy of the worlds dreariest holiday party
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thanks to this piece, I finally understand the absolute illogical layout of United’s C/D gate structure at Dulles IAD. Path dependency 🤜🤛 poor planning! viewfromthewing.com/billions-spe...
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Billions Spent At Dulles, But Despite New Gates And Lounge United Flyers To Still Be Stuck Using 40-Year-Old ‘Temporary’ Concourse - View from the Wing
United's hub at Washington Dulles has long held a precarious position. It's been on the potential chopping block many times over the past 25 years. As a result, it's a place that's seen little investm...
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Kingston Reif @kingstonareif.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“There were other stumbling blocks…For instance, there was no progress in the talks about civil nuclear cooperation because Saudi Arabia refused to sign a so-called 123 Agreement with the U.S. that would have denied Riyadh the right to nuclear enrichment” www.reuters.com/world/saudi-...
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Saudi Arabia abandons pursuit of US defence treaty over Israel stalemate
Saudi Arabia has abandoned its pursuit of an ambitious defence treaty with Washington in return for normalising relations with Israel and is now pushing for a more modest military cooperation agreement, two Saudi and four Western officials told Reuters.
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A perfect thanksgiving album for prompting your family to ask, “what are we listening to?!?” and “who put this on???”
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Debak Das @debak.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter Pack for Nuclear Weapons History and Politics. Most of these folks are within the broader #NukeSky world. If I've missed you, please let me know if you would like to be added or suggest anyone else who should be on this! 👉 go.bsky.app/KDiibQK
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Super interesting work at the intersection of tech, secrecy, and bureaucratic politics
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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
IR Book of the Week! "Influence Without Arms" by Matt Fuhrmann. We often think that HAVING the bomb is enables states to deter threats and shape global politics. But can states enjoy the same benefits by simply having the "ability" to have a bomb? www.amazon.com/Influence-wi...
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Eric Brewer @ebrewer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The US needs a new, durable consensus on how to manage nuclear proliferation threats in today's security environment. That is why NTI, Carnegie, and Belfer are announcing a new high-level, bipartisan Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and US National Security. www.nti.org/news/announc...
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Announcing New Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. National Security
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Lindsay Rand @lrand11.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Nuclear policy starter pack for folks coming from other socials. Will update regularly. go.bsky.app/BWGGzgX
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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
At #APSA2024, we presented the 2023 Robert O. Keohane award (for the best article published in IO by an untenured scholar) to @janevaynman.bsky.social & @tristanvolpe.bsky.social. "Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in Internationla Relations." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations - Volume 77 Issue 3
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Joshua Kertzer @jkertzer.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
As tensions continue to mount, pundits are increasingly worried about security dilemmas emerging between the US and China. New in World Politics w @ryanbrutger.bsky.social and Kai Quek: we show both the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 publics are prone to security dilemma thinking muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... #polisky
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Stanford CISAC @stanfordcisac.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
Next week: "Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes International Competition" with Jane Vaynman and @tristanvolpe.bsky.social RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/dual-...
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Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes International
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
I can’t wait for TikTok to read Ghost Wars
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
My feed here is mostly @profmusgrave.bsky.social. Not complaining. I miss his witticisms on twitter.
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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
The routes flown by the Army Air Forces's Air Transport Command (tasked with delivering supplies/personnel and ferrying new aircraft to combat theaters) as of Jan. 1943 Truly staggering reach, which was only getting started in the Pacific
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Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider @jackieschneider.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Hacking Nuclear Stability: 3 years of wargames, 500+ players. We find danger of cyber for nuclear stability is not in how it creates uncertainty but instead in misplaced certainty, counterforce & accidents. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Hacking Nuclear Stability: Wargaming Technology, Uncertainty, and Escalation | International Organiz...
Hacking Nuclear Stability: Wargaming Technology, Uncertainty, and Escalation - Volume 77 Issue 3
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
My main hesitation with completely abandoning twitter is that this site seems a bit buggy and engagement is zero or close to zero
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Do people promote new publications here? I really miss old academic twitter. I found out about so much research from promotional threads
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Is there a viable platform for reposting across multiple social media accounts? I don’t have the effort to copy and paste my dumb thought into like four distinct services
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
New article dropping soon …
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
At this rate I’m just going to give up on social media. Too much effort to rebuild.
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Sup
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/07/2023
Promote yourself relentlessly and disgustingly.
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Tristan A. Volpe @tristanvolpe.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
I’m here after forgetting about my baby fresh accounts at Post and Threads
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