Conventional arms and nuclear weapons have long been central to international politics. However, the field of International Relations has long divorced the study of conventional arms from the nuclear domain, a product of academic, think tank, and policy fault lines.
Drawing on my years of professional experience working in the defense sector, my doctoral research and book project attempts to address this gap in the literature by exploring how conventional and nuclear defense industrial development influence each other. Thus far my doctoral research has lead me to conduct archival research in the US, UK, and France and elite interviews globally.