Andrew Facini (acf@bsky)
@andrewfacini
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Find me over on the blue place | Nuclear weapons policy, history, cultural issues, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @CSRisks.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2014
This is the perfect moment to end Twitter for me
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Over the last few months I have had the privilege of contributing towards CSR's Nuclear Weapon Systems Project — an ambitious effort to list every single nuke ever deployed by the P5. Today we launched that project: here is the 🧵
What do you find if you examine the *types* of nuclear weapons, rather than just their numbers? 🚀 CSR's Nolan Center is thrilled to launch the Nuclear Weapon Systems Project, a dataset and tracker of every nuclear weapon ever deployed by 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇳. ➡️ https://t.co/21BXsho7Cr
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What do you find if you examine the *types* of nuclear weapons, rather than just their numbers? 🚀 CSR's Nolan Center is thrilled to launch the Nuclear Weapon Systems Project, a dataset and tracker of every nuclear weapon ever deployed by 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇳. ➡️ https://t.co/21BXsho7Cr
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(I'm not really here anymore! Come find me and a lot of good folks in the blue place!)
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THREAD: Given China’s resistance to risk reduction so far under Biden after feeling badly burned by Trump’s approach to arms control & three false starts under Clinton/Bush/Obama, hopefully this (indeed rare) meeting will be a durable enabling step to sustained, structured talks.
The Biden administration is preparing to hold a rare discussion with China on nuclear-arms control, as the U.S. seeks to head off a destabilizing three-way arms race with Beijing and Moscow https://t.co/ykeGysr6cJ
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“A stronger US strategy for responding to the challenge posed by China’s growing arsenal should be for the United States to…. [build] multiple levels of mutual understanding and routes toward risk reduction,” writes @andrewfacini. https://t.co/gdJoK4weQg
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The need to understand Beijing and find paths to reduce tensions is more urgent than any given weapons system or revised strategic posture.
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Just published: Why the US fixation on increased nuclear capability won’t deter China but could lead to instability and nuclear war By @andrewfacini In @BulletinAtomic
https://t.co/0Mf3J56VpR
#nuclearweapons
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The need to understand Beijing and find paths to reduce tensions is more urgent than any given weapons system or revised strategic posture.
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“The approach in Washington thus far has been badly constrained to the force-meets-force thinking which, if taken alone, will only multiply risks and add untested variables for the United States and its allies.” @andrewfacini
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The need to understand Beijing and find paths to reduce tensions is more urgent than any given weapons system or revised strategic posture.
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Oh word?
BREAKING: Saudi Arabia says it told the US that it rejects the killing of unarmed civilians in "any way"
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What's being tested today is an outgrowth of the decades-old Emergency Alert System (née Emergency Broadcast System), which was originally established so that the President could send a short message to the nation in the event of sudden nuclear attack. [2]
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“America needs to beat china in chips and tech and blah blah blah but oops actually we need to stop everything and halt like half of the research that happens in this country surely that will give us an edge”
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Regular reminder that it doesn't have to be the actual start of world war 3 for folks to get confused about a thing and accidentally start world war 3
Romania has now confirmed that parts of a Russian drone landed on its territory, just across the border from Ukraine, after denying that *categorically* for 2 days The Defence Ministry now says "pieces of a Russian drone were found on our territory"
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This kind of smart, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
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Thread 📜 OTD in 1963, the US and Soviet Union established the "Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link" or hotline. At the time, the @Guardian reported that this step would be a "small, but useful, measure of arms control" especially in light of the #CubanMissileCrisis.
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Today is the 60th anniversary of the original Washington-Moscow "hotline" Check out a visual round-up of which states have modern crisis communications options—at least, on paper:
If things go from bad to worse in Ukraine, Syria, Kashmir, or the South China Sea, which leaders can "pick up the phone" and talk to each other quickly—and securely? ➡️ Check out @LPWalkr and my overview of known crisis communications links between nuclear-armed states:
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The US Air Force's new budget documents state that they are building a "surety dormitory" at RAF Lakenheath. "Surety" is a military term often associated with nuclear weapons. After 15 years, the US Air Force's nuclear mission may be returning to UK soil. https://t.co/nzGLjSBeg8
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New U.S. Air Force budgetary documents strongly imply that the United States Air Force is in the process of re-establishing its nuclear weapons mission on UK soil.
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