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Daniel Salisbury
Associate Fellow, RUSI; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), King's College London
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Dr Daniel Salisbury is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He is currently undertaking a three-year research project on arms embargos as part of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. Daniel previously held positions at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington DC, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, CSSS and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He is the author of Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate: How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-1983 (Routledge Cold War History series, 2020). He is also the author or co-author of over twenty journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of books on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and UN Security Council resolution 1540. His commentary has been published by Arms Control Today, Arms Control Wonk, Asia Times, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Conversation, The Diplomat, Lawfare, Newsweek, NK News, Scientific American, and Vice.
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The myths of AQ Khan and the ‘tech genius’
Daniel Salisbury / Alex Bollfrass • 22 February 2024
Drawing on a recent archival find and a new history of how Pakistan developed its first nuclear bomb, Alex Bollfrass and Daniel Salisbury consider the mythology and realities of ‘the father of the Pakistani bomb’, AQ Khan
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Covert Hops
Daniel Salisbury • 19 December 2023
The Binding Hook hoppy holidays guide to technology-themed beers for the season’s pour decisions
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Europe will struggle to curtail Russian tech theft
Daniel Salisbury • 7 November 2023
Russia has been plundering Europe’s high tech for decades
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