Publications
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Als er oorlog komt, zijn we met kernwapens net zo kwetsbaar als zonder
Steviger Europese defensiesamenwerking zonder de Verenigde Staten is zeer welkom. Maar nieuwe Franse kernwapens maken ons land bepaald niet veiliger. Opinie in NRC.
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The democratic cost of nuclear weapons
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-democratic-cost-of-nuclear-weapons/
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.
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Existential silos: The compartmentalization of the futures of environmental change and the nuclear threat
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103671
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.
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Nuclear memories for the future: Gaps and forgetting in European publics’ understandings of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07255136251353234
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…
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The Arsenal and the Ballot Box: Scoping the Incompatibility of Nuclear Weapons and Democracy
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724002664
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.
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Armes nucléaires et environnement
https://doi.org/10.3917/rpre.230.0097
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…
