Mr Rhys Lewis-Jones

Overview

I am a doctoral researcher at the School of Law and Politics. My project is supervised by Dr. Haro Karkour and Prof. Peter Sutch. 

My academic background is chiefly war studies/ military history. I focused on nuclear ethics during my Masters studies. My current research area is International Security in IR, within which I focus on nuclear deterrence. 

I investigate the existential (planetary) security implications of nuclear risk. By framing this risk as potential for a global catastrophe - I hope to draw attention to the (in)security of deterrence. My project seeks to relate great-power competition to limited nuclear war doctrine. As such, I investigate non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons (NSNWs), at the substrategic level, and their security implicatons.