Daniel Salisbury

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Daniel Salisbury is a Nonresident Fellow with Stimson’s Nuclear Security Program. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London (KCL). At KCL he is currently undertaking a three-year research project on arms embargos as part of a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. Daniel is also a Non-Resident Associate at the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He previously held positions at the Belfer Center, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, King’s College London and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Daniel has acted as a Subject Matter Expert at over 30 nuclear security and export control capacity building workshops in over 10 countries around the world since 2012. 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, 2020). He is also the author or co-author of a number of journal articles and the co-editor of Open Source Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century: New Approaches and Opportunities (Palgrave, 2014) and Preventing the Proliferation of WMDs: Measuring the Effectiveness of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (Palgrave, 2018).

He holds a PhD in War Studies, MA in Science and Security and BA in War Studies from KCL. He sits on the editorial board of the Strategic Trade Review and became an Associate of King’s College London (AKC) in 2010.

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