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Alex Wellerstein
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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 19 Oct 2018
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      I admit I'm still confused as to what you're advocating one discuss when talking about nukes to the public — I see much of what you don't think we should be doing, and I thought I had inferred what you were advocating we talk about, but I'm now quite unsure.

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    4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 19 Oct 2018
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      To be specific: I can't tell if you're saying, "we should be engaging on these lines, not those lines," or "we shouldn't be engaging at all on this issue." If the former, I'm curious about the lines you think would be more productive.

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    7. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 20 Oct 2018
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      While I'm sympathetic to the importance of these issues, but in my experience they're an order of magnitude more detailed and wonky than people are interested in. Explaining the definition of "stockpile modernization" takes a full 5 minutes, if you mean to do it well.

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      This might be seen as underestimating the public, but as someone who interacts with the public in many forms... I don't think it is. At least not without a "hook."

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      I'm super interested in C2 reform. But you're not going to get anyone in the lay public to care about it unless you wrap it in the question, "should Trump be allowed to start a nuclear war unilaterally?"

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      In my experience, unless people feel the nuclear issue is a personal one, they don't respond to it. The barriers for entry are huge. The wonky self-policing of technical language is huge. The structures of power seem very far away.

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      Emphasizing shared risk is one way to start the process of that kind of buy-in. It's the oldest way, anyway. But again, I'm interested in exploring other ways, too — that's a lot of what my RCD project is trying to look at: what actually gets people interested and involved?

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