In @jststs, @Nick_L_Miller & I analyze the growth of an autocratic nuclear marketplace. Russia & China supplanted the United States as the dominate suppliers of civil nuclear tech—19 of 33 reactors exported since 2000 came from these authoritarian rivals: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… This outcome is surprising. Powerful states can wield civil nuclear exports as an effective tool of statecraft. Research from @mcfuhrmann @MatthewKroenig @RDavisGibbons @DrJSarkar @MarkHibbsCEIP @Koch_LL @gheorghe_eliza @JeffDColgan @ALanoszkaCivil underscores this point.

Great question! The Goldilocks principle still remains valid, and underscores a similar point made by many analysts today: the nuclear program is simply too valuable for the North Korean leadership to give up. Let me offer up a few more thoughts (mini-thread):

https://twitter.com/derekwbeck/status/1037776869796573184

One proviso to keep in mind: my work explores how nations leverage the mere latent potential to produce nuclear weapons as an instrument of coercion. I focus on when nuclear technology - not operational nuclear forces - provides the most coercive leverage: dx.doi.org/10.1080/096364…

The US appears to be negotiating a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. What does that mean and why should you care? Spend 15-30 minutes perusing through this literature thread to get up to speed (1/n):

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(2/n) @MarkHibbsCEIP penned an excellent overview of the geopolitical and technical issues involved in the negotiation of US nuclear cooperation agreements, especially those with restrictions on ENR tech today: carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/07/neg…