Nuclear weapons come with a hidden cost: they erode democracy. In every nuclear state, secrecy, executive powers and stifled debate cut the public off from their government’s nuclear decision-making. In this article I explain why this is – and why citizens must still push for more accountability.

Nuclear weapons and environmental change are two existential threats to humanity. This article shows that current policy and academic discourse neglects their possible future interactions and proposes a research agenda to undo this compartmentalization.

Thesis Eleven 189, no.1 (2025): 37–53. (With Benoît Pelopidas and Alexander Sorg) Using two novel surveys of representative samples of Europeans in nine countries, we identify two gaps in Europeans’ understandings of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. First, there is a gap in awareness of Hiroshima versus Nagasaki, which obscures the potential significance of the…

This paper systematically explores incompatibilities between nuclear weapons and democracy. Based on a procedural definition of democracy, it argues that nuclear weapons’ relationship with democracy is defined both by inherent limitations stemming from the features of nuclear weapons and by assumptions about the requirements of nuclear strategy.

Raison Présente 230, no.2 (2024): 97–104. (With Thomas Fraise and Benoît Pelopidas) Les arsenaux nucléaires et les transformations environnementales consécutives au franchissement des limites planétaires sont deux menaces existentielles pour l’humanité qui ne sont pas près de disparaître. Les neuf États dotés d’armes nucléaires s’emploient à étendre la durée de vie de leurs arsenaux jusqu’en 2090…