Research

I am interested in the technopolitics of nuclear histories in the 20th century. My primarily archival research investigates global and (trans/sub)national individuals and groups of nuclear experts, together with the interests, risk perceptions, priorities, and goals of their technopolitical decisionmaking over time. My dissertation is a historical monograph that advocates a new theory of an expanded nuclear latency spectrum. I hope my findings will add to our understanding of how and why nuclear knowledge and things are deisred, cultivated, and deployed to project power in a shifting international system.

Writing

Working Papers

• “Less is Sometimes More: Nuclear Latency in East & West Pakistan, 1947-71”
• “Science Diplomacy & the Creation of Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center” (w/ Justin Olmstead)

Edited Volume, Chapters, & Public Reports

• “Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program ,” in Eds. Sumit Ganguly and Frank O’Donnell, South Asia Security Handbook (New York: Routledge, 2022) (w/A. Tarapore).

• “Sharing Nuclear Information,” in Eds. Michael Krepon, Travis Wheeler, and Liv Dowling, Off Ramps from Confrontation in Southern Asia (Washington, D.C.: Stimson Center, 2019) pp. 143-152.

• Planning for the Worst: Nuclear Effects & Disaster Management in South Asia, workshop report, Stimson Center, 10 May 2019 (w/ S. Lalwani, E. Tallo, A. Vasudeva, and T. Wheeler).

• Eds. Sameer Lalwani and Hannah Haegeland, Investigating Crises: South Asia’s Lessons, Evolving Dynamics, & Trajectories, (Washington, D.C.: Stimson Center, 2018).

  • “The Anatomy of a Crisis: Explaining Crisis Onset in India-Pakistan Relations,” in Investigating Crises, pp. 23-55 (w/S. Lalwani).
  • “China and Crisis Management in South Asia,” in Investigating Crises, pp. 165-185 (w/Y. Sun).