Jan Ludvík
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Jan Ludvík
@nuclearjan.bsky.social
assistant professor at Charles University, studies coercion, war, strategy, and nuclear weapons
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Huge congratulations to our Ph.D. candidate Zakir Rzazade
for publishing his first peer-reviewed article! 🎉 He explores the expert-media gap in perceptions on drone usage implications on modern warfare. @ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @europeansecurity.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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New article in @ejir.bsky.social! 🚨

@smetanamichal.bsky.social @mvranka.bsky.social and @ondrejrosendorf.bsky.social argue that due to the overly complex nature of arms control practices, the public relies on simplified heuristic frames and elite cues to build their opinion.

@ims.fsv.cuni.cz
July 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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DOD reports 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) dropped, so close to the entire stockpile used in this operation.
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Experts talk about a new nuclear age but how much of it is truly new? Read more in my new article,

"Third or ‘second and a half’? Continuity, path dependence, and the third nuclear age,"

Now published online-first @globalpolicy.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Third or “Second and a Half”? Continuity, Path Dependence, and the Third Nuclear Age
The world has entered a new nuclear age. Scholars have characterized this “third nuclear age” as one of renewed competition among nuclear-armed great powers and the coming maturation of new technolog...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Saving this for the next time someone says today’s youth are physically and unfit for military service

This is from 1941

I think they did ok
May 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I extremely grateful to @nuclearjan.bsky.social, Roseanne McManus, Janice Stein, @laurensukin.bsky.social, and Stephen Quackenbush for their reviews of Elements of Deterrence in a symposium in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is humbling to receive kind reviews from such terrific scholars!
April 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Want to learn about the complexity of deterrence? Read @jonrlindsay.bsky.social and Erik Gartzke's new book Elements of Deterrence. Why? Read more in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social review symposium by Janice Stein, @laurensukin.bsky.social , Stephen L. Quackenbush and me. doi.org/10.1017/S153...
The Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics
doi.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM