Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. Work focusses on great power relations and reducing nuclear dangers.
Ben Zala
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Great piece by @olamidediy.bsky.social on the implications for the non-proliferation regime of the latest attempt at preventive counterproliferation strikes.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
80 years into the nuclear age and "arms control has all but collapsed while reliable and trusted channels of communication between major nuclear adversaries are virtually non-existent." We're going to need more than luck to survive another 80 years.
theconversation.com/fear-built-t...
New ep on "Who Will Shape the Third Nuclear Era?" of the @warontherocks.bsky.social Thinking the Unthinkable pod w/ @nktpnd.bsky.social chatting to yours truly. warontherocks.com/episode/thin...
For Australia-based followers, I joined @patskarvelas.bsky.social on Afternoon Briefing yesterday (17/6) to discuss the Israeli strikes against Iran and the likelihood of this counter-proliferation strike leading to the much wider goal of regime change in Tehran: iview.abc.net.au/show/afterno...
It's been a (3rd nuclear?) age since I've posted on here but figured I'd flag a great new podcast by BASIC called NukeChat. I happen to be on the new episode discussing "Nuclear Responsibilities Through The Nuclear Ages" but the other episodes will be even better! basicint.org/nukechat-epi...
I'm the guest for today's episode of the ABC News Daily podcast with Samantha Hawley on "Was Iran Really About to Build a Nuclear Bomb?": www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
My explainer on the Israeli strikes against Iran (including implications for the NPT and wider nonproliferation regime) for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-is-there...
Really glad to have an article in this excellent special issue. Mine, with @andrewfutter.bsky.social, is on "The Return of Nuclear Great Power Politics (or why we stopped worrying about terrorists and the bomb)" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
After being repeatedly asked about this for the better part of a fortnight, I figured I'd just write it up in one spot. It's not an endorsement of nuclear deterrence, nor a nuclear-armed Iran. But could we live with that outcome? Yep. theconversation.com/could-we-liv...
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
Ben Zala
The conclusion many states may now draw is that complying with the NPT is no longer a guarantee of nuclear security.
Your daily download of everything you need to know about politics, national and global affairs. Patricia Karvelas asks politicians the tough questions and talks to key players and experts on the issue...
In this episode, Dr Megan Dee and Dr Ben Zala consider how nuclear responsibilities have evolved over the first and second nuclear ages and reflect on how they have also been questioned, critiqued, an...
If the nuclear bomb was born out of fear, then ensuring it is never used again requires replacing fear with trust.
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warontherocks.com
The latest attacks have come amid growing concern over Iran’s nuclear program, prompting questions over what this means for the global non-proliferation regime.
Israel has been ramping up pressure on Donald Trump for the US to join its strikes on Iran.
It’s believed that only the US has the bombs that could destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities hidden deep under...
📔New SPECIAL EJIS issue📔
'What the ‘War on Terror' leaves behind: Assessing international security in a post-terrorism era'
link 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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