Laura Considine

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#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social -

Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age - https://cup.org/4oqeyYD

"survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age... premised on the threat of total annihilation"

- @lauracon.bsky.social

Come for the call for world government, stay for … the eugenics!?

I think maybe you could have read all this piece a bit more carefully before republishing.

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I only realized that it was Prime Day because Amazon must have spent a fortune on ads bombarding me.

Then I checked other retailers.

Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:

This is misinforming the public as it’s written

How and why is Britain obtaining access to nuclear gravity bombs? UK purchase of F-35A squadron means US nuclear warheads are likely to be stored on British soil once again

@theguardian.com this is wrong on trident use. Not only used in ‘highly unlikely scenario where a surprise, all-out nuclear attack destroys the UK and its way of life.’ UK could use nukes first and in response to range of threats including to NATO allies

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged

If there was ever any doubt why France 🇫🇷 tried to stop @who.int from revisiting the health impacts of nuclear war at #WHA78 last night—this is why.

For decades, France & other nuclear powers have tried to bury the truth about these weapons @jonhenley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Meanwhile here in the U.K., extra concerning in the context of continuing gov attempts to limit legal public protest.

What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons? Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.

New Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) article by @lauracon.bsky.social out now! @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

'What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?'

link to her summary - buff.ly/pMyMcCx
#openaccess link - buff.ly/2N9DwOm

#CUPPoliSci

🚨New First View Article🚨

"Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age" by Laura Considine is now available #OpenAccess!

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Congrats! I’m looking forward to reading this! ☺️

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

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Aw!

Oof.

World’s largest nuclear weapons manufacturer, building that new ICBM in Utah. You can read our public interest reporting (ie we at @inkstickmedia.com refuse that defense contractor funding as a matter of policy) on the company + its Utah operations here: inkstickmedia.com/author/taylo...

Doctoral scholarships alert for UK PhD applicants from minoritised ethnic backgrounds in the brilliant Faculty of Social Sciences at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social

#Scholarships #Minorities #Students #PhD #Doctoral #Research

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Thank you! I appreciate your help in replying to this. I wonder about pre- 49 nuclear diplomacy as supporting this claim but it’s not my area so I need to read more.

#nukesky request for help, the claim that in a future disarmed world, any state with a nuclear weapon/s would have an overwhelming advantage. Is there research that bases this in history, theory, strategy etc? Is there work that argues this through? I’d like to read it if anyone has suggestions?

Call for Pitches: Nuclear Weapons Industry Imagery Help us understand what the nuclear weapons industry looks like today.

Hi #NukeSky - we're still taking photojournalism pitches at @inkstickmedia.bsky.social for our call for nuclear weapons industry images.

We'd love to see your pitches from places in the US like Pantex or the Savannah River Site or Promontory. And lots of others!

inkstickmedia.com/careers/call...

I’m glad to hear it is useful! The lecture sounds great, do share if there is a recording.

I’d like to be added - thanks

📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team).
Deadline for applications: 25 November
Help us spread the word!
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Nuclear Arms Buildup Isn't Just about War. It Also Harms People and Communities. The prevalence of this acceptance of arms racing and nuclear war fighting talk does not simply reflect the world we are in, it has political power to influence the world and increase the risks we face...

I wrote a commentary on the impacts of any further nuclear weapons buildup on people and communities in New Mexico. Recent recommendations ignore the human and environmental costs of more nukes. inkstickmedia.com/nuclear-arms...

I just listened to members of the new Strategic Posture Commission trying to explain the report to an audience in San Francisco. Some comments that stood out the most:

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The film will be screened at various film festivals, if you see it anywhere do go. It’s an incredible story of injustice and harm but also people who have suffered so much loss but still fight for their community. #nukesky

I had the privilege of seeing a screening of this film
@Santafefestival
It tells story of trinity downwinders
@TBdownwinders
who have suffered generations of cancers since the first nuclear test and have been excluded from gov comp. www.firstwebombednewmexico

The call for proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Alva Myrdal-centre for Nuclear Disarmament is now open! The cross-disciplinary conference takes place 18-19 June in Uppsala (online in parts). Call closes 3 Dec. I hope to see you in Uppsala in June!
#nukesky
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#proofofcat also proof of the best cat ever.

I should prob say something now I’m on here.

👋 Hello I’m here for spicy feminist and critical takes on nuclear weapons, photos of cats and snark about a nyt columnist’s airport meal.

I also still don’t really know how this works.