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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Sep 8

The IHPST is hiring! Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology.

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology

jobs.utoronto.ca

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 12d

job alert:

My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.

Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks to RUSI for hosting me in London to talk about space security and the transatlantic alliance from the Cold War to today

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 8d

After a long hiatus, AIP's postdoc position for historians of the physical sciences is back!

3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci

workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

A green space with bushes and trees and a helix sculpture next to a beige building.

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 8d

Beautiful approach into Heathrow this morning

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 11d

At the Elliott School of International Affairs we are searching for a senior scholar (associate or full) of international security who will also be appointed to the Political Science Department. Elliott is a fantastic community. See details below:
www.gwu.jobs/postings/122...

Associate or Full Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Security studies: The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Political Science invite applications for a full-time, tenured faculty position in securi...

www.gwu.jobs

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 12d

Here's a post I've wanted to write up for awhile, tracing the history of the idea of a "Doomsday Machine," from fact to fiction (or maybe it was always, to some degree, fiction): doomsdaymachines.net/p/inventing-...

Inventing the Doomsday Machine

Tracing the idea of a weapon to automatically destroy the world

doomsdaymachines.net

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 14d

I'm happy to share that my second book, Wiring an Empire: Information Networks and U.S. Global Power in the Cold War, is under advance contract with MIT Press.

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 24d

From the National Reconnaissance Office "Space Race Wasn't Just about the Moon." Good to see the NRO making its history as the single largest source of U.S. intelligence during the Cold War more accessible

www.youtube.com/shorts/m4f0K...

Space Race Secrets

YouTube video by National Reconnaissance Office

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 29d

Interesting new article in JSS about Norwegian-US nuclear intelligence sharing

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 29d

On 3 Oct I'll be in London to give a talk at RUSI about the origins/ evolution of space-based missile defense and its implications for space security and the transatlantic alliance. If you happen to be in London and are interested, the registration details are below:
my.rusi.org/events/the-e...

The Evolution of Weapons in Space: A Conversation with Aaron Bateman

A conversation with Dr Aaron Bateman, exploring his research on the history of accelerating superpower military competition in space during the late Cold War and thereafter.

my.rusi.org

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Debak Das @debak.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨 How & why do nuclear delivery vehicles proliferate? My article on the spread of delivery vehicles is out at Security Studies! #OpenAccess

It explains:
- Why the NPT allows nuclear delivery vehicles to spread
- How did India acquire its #nuclear delivery technology
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Explaining the Proliferation of Nuclear Delivery Vehicles

How and why do nuclear delivery vehicles proliferate? This article identifies a permissive environment in the nonproliferation regime shaped by three drivers for proliferation: First, the multipurp...

tandfonline.com

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Sep 3

From a 1978 NDAA authorization hearing, the U.S. Worldwide Military Command and Control System

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Sep 2

Many thanks!

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Sep 2

I hope you enjoy it!

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm thrilled and honored to see that my book, Weapons in Space, has been placed on the Chief of the Air Staff's (U.K. Royal Air Force) 2025 reading list. airspacepower.com/wp-content/u...

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 24

Congratulations Patrick!

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 22

*Australian National University

Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many thanks to Australia National University for hosting @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social and me in Canberra last week to discuss strategic deterrence from the Cold War to today!

ANU National Security College @nscanu.bsky.social · Aug 22

New podcast

How has strategic deterrence evolved from the Cold War to the current era?

@aaronbateman.bsky.social and @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social join @davidmandrews.bsky.social to explore this, with a focus on nuclear weapons, space capabilities and other approaches.

Listen
tinyurl.com/7b4n22fp

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Found this in the Australian National Archives: message from Sep 1914 that describes when German forces landed on Fanning Island to cut the British Pacific Cable.

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is the declassified effectiveness criteria, from the late '80s, for SDI. The JCS intended for it to be able to destroy 50% of an SS-18 attack and 30% of all other Soviet missile systems. I discuss this in chapter six of my book. BL: 100% was never the *official* goal.

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 18

Satellite tracking station on Ascension Island. Since the 1960s, the facility has supported US missile tests and satellite launches from Cape Canaveral.

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Aug 12

I thoroughly enjoyed driving out to the Deep Space Communications Complex outside Canberra, Australia that is used to track and communicates w/ NASA spacecraft. The site played a critical role in the Apollo program. Quite a sight seeing sheep grazing near the gigantic antennas.

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · Jul 31

Early cybersecurity: this declassified 1982 memo discusses potential Soviet exploitation of commercially provided computer database services

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