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Kimberly Peh
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Postdoc at CGSR, LLNL. Accelerator at Stanley Center. nuclear | crisis | conflict prevention. Usual caveats.
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Our write up of the conference, including a summary of our research on Chinese and Russian hypersonic, quantum, and military AI capabilities is now up on @ucigcc.bsky.social's blog {with @juljan.bsky.social and @kimberlypeh.bsky.social}

ucigcc.org/blog/dispatc...
August 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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My new article with Michael Shkolnik is out! Crossing Battle Death Lines: Why Do Some Insurgent Organizations Escalate Violence to Higher-Intensity Armed Conflicts? There are 50 free pdfs that can be downloaded at the link below. Let me know what you think!

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Crossing Battle Death Lines: Why Do Some Insurgent Organizations Escalate Violence to Higher-Intensity Armed Conflicts?
Why do some insurgent groups escalate violence to higher-intensity insurgencies or civil war? We explore this question among 140 insurgent groups worldwide across various thresholds of armed confli...
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March 22, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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The U.S. & China are in a race to unlock #quantum technologies critical for #AI & secure communications, and China may be winning. What’s in store for this growing quantum rivalry? Read IGCC’s latest issue brief from Juljan Krause to learn more: bit.ly/3uDDq8Y
March 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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Now Online First at ISP: "When Is Old Too Old? The Problem of Leaning on Outdated Historical Work and a Simple Distinction between Two Kinds of Evidence to Address This" from Jorgen Moller. academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
March 4, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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📚🚨 My book, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding", will be out on Feb 22 and avail for pre-order! bit.ly/govafterwar

❓: how does rebel governance & social control shape rebel victors' post-war strategies for consolidating power?
January 22, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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I realized recently that a number of the descriptions of the target selection for the atomic bombings get the progression a bit wrong. What follows is what I think is the most complete timeline of changes to the target list through the atomic bombings themselves that is available. (1/...)
January 4, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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How fast can we go on climate?

NEW data for exploration + download

The HATCH: Historical Adoption of TeCHnology dataset
 
Massive effort by U.Wisc MCC-Berlin IIASA --> 7k country-level time series on adoption of >200 diverse technologies.

Paper: rdcu.be/dpQgE

Data: zenodo.org/records/1003...
December 8, 2023 at 1:05 AM
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Recommended article which explains not just Russia’s problems in shooting down (small) #drones but the difficulty of fighting drones in general.
#miltech #milsky
Russian Report Explains Why Air Defenses Cannot Shoot Down Drones
A report from 2020 details how Russia's wide range of anti-aircraft systems cannot see or hit small drones due to basic design issues. It's a massive problem.
www.forbes.com
December 8, 2023 at 8:55 AM