Adam Mount
@ajmount.bsky.social
Fmr. FAS, CAP, CFR, Ph.D. Government, Georgetown.
Deterrence, nuclear strategy, progressive foreign policy.
Bio: ajmount.com.
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Deterrence, nuclear strategy, progressive foreign policy.
Bio: ajmount.com.
Banners: @UAHIRISE.
NNSA reaping:
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October 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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6. The other articles in the issue look fascinating, so be sure to have a look.
As always, if you have trouble accessing my work, please get in touch (ajmount.com).
As always, if you have trouble accessing my work, please get in touch (ajmount.com).
1) ***Announcement***
The new Fall 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
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The new Fall 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
@mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Volume 50 Issue 2 | International Security | MIT Press
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October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
6. The other articles in the issue look fascinating, so be sure to have a look.
As always, if you have trouble accessing my work, please get in touch (ajmount.com).
As always, if you have trouble accessing my work, please get in touch (ajmount.com).
5. My takeaways:
• US officials consider conventional deterrence of nuclear use to be a valuable option.
• There is no consensus about how conventional (or nuclear!) deterrence could work.
• The US and allies should stop denigrating its credibility and start enhancing it.
• US officials consider conventional deterrence of nuclear use to be a valuable option.
• There is no consensus about how conventional (or nuclear!) deterrence could work.
• The US and allies should stop denigrating its credibility and start enhancing it.
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
5. My takeaways:
• US officials consider conventional deterrence of nuclear use to be a valuable option.
• There is no consensus about how conventional (or nuclear!) deterrence could work.
• The US and allies should stop denigrating its credibility and start enhancing it.
• US officials consider conventional deterrence of nuclear use to be a valuable option.
• There is no consensus about how conventional (or nuclear!) deterrence could work.
• The US and allies should stop denigrating its credibility and start enhancing it.
4. The results get a bit wild and offer an unusually detailed look at how US officials understand the value of nuclear weapons and the operation of deterrence. In this specific (easy) scenario, 17 of 20 former officials recommended a conventional response and 11 favored conventional deterrence.
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
4. The results get a bit wild and offer an unusually detailed look at how US officials understand the value of nuclear weapons and the operation of deterrence. In this specific (easy) scenario, 17 of 20 former officials recommended a conventional response and 11 favored conventional deterrence.
3. To understand the potential and risks, the article surveys recent technical developments and then presents the results of twenty “tabletop interviews” with former senior US civilian and military officials who might plausibly have been consulted on how to deter a North Korean attack.
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
3. To understand the potential and risks, the article surveys recent technical developments and then presents the results of twenty “tabletop interviews” with former senior US civilian and military officials who might plausibly have been consulted on how to deter a North Korean attack.
2. For a lot of people, the title is almost an oxymoron. I remember sitting in Seoul when a former Ambassador turned to me, incredulous: "are you saying conventional can deter nuclear?" Both the academic and policy literature tend to denigrate the credibility of conventional deterrence.
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
2. For a lot of people, the title is almost an oxymoron. I remember sitting in Seoul when a former Ambassador turned to me, incredulous: "are you saying conventional can deter nuclear?" Both the academic and policy literature tend to denigrate the credibility of conventional deterrence.
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bsky.app/profile/moll... this is what I’ve been thinking too. A bulldozer to the whole of the new deal, to a whole system of rights.
Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
bsky.app/profile/moll... this is what I’ve been thinking too. A bulldozer to the whole of the new deal, to a whole system of rights.
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bsky.app/profile/kair... law is a gentleman’s agreement backed by state violence and this is the downstream of effect of state violence deciding it wants to do something else instead*
*don’t yell at me lawyers I’m an international relations professor my job is thinking about power
*don’t yell at me lawyers I’m an international relations professor my job is thinking about power
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
bsky.app/profile/kair... law is a gentleman’s agreement backed by state violence and this is the downstream of effect of state violence deciding it wants to do something else instead*
*don’t yell at me lawyers I’m an international relations professor my job is thinking about power
*don’t yell at me lawyers I’m an international relations professor my job is thinking about power
Strongly disagree! Good one! Guess I’m still at the right age.
October 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Strongly disagree! Good one! Guess I’m still at the right age.