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Michael Mulvihill

@thMnsandthInstr

Vice Chancellor Research Fellow. Researching social and political encounters between space and nuclear deterrence technologies at Teesside University

 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
fylingdalesarchive.org.uk
Joined February 2014
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Delighted to have our article with @REWacad and K Neil Jenkings discussing civil-military entanglements in UK military reserves and in outer space 🪐 @RAFFylingdales read in 👇 @SpacePolity tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Damage, recovery, and the geographies of military–civil entanglements

Damage, recovery, and the geographies of military–civil entanglements

This paper explores two forms of entanglements between military and civilian phenomena and activities, in contexts of recovery from damaging events. One concerns global civil–military entanglements...

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Well and truly “out of this world” congratulations
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Aurora displays over Tynemouth this evening
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Aaron Bateman@aaronbateman226 Apr 2024
Nikola Tesla’s depiction of war in the future (1922). He predicted “machines of destruction more terrible than anything concocted by the masterminds behind the ‘World War’ armies and navies, will sail under the ocean and thru the skies – with not a man on board”
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Great to work with @ConversationUK on this article about what the notorious Starfish Prime nuclear test can tell about using nuclear anti-satellite weapons. SPOILER it was bad then, it’s worse now 💫 🛰️
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This is why it was important for the UN to reaffirm their 50-year international commitment to the OST and mitigating wide-ranging harm from nuclear weapon in space. theconversation.com/nukes-in…
Nukes in space: a bad idea in the 1960s – an even worse one now

Nukes in space: a bad idea in the 1960s – an even worse one now

The Starfish Prime test in 1962 showed how dangerous it would be to detonate a nuclear weapon in space.

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Amazing @DefenceResNet outer space special edition newsletter. Thanks 🙏 for the bonus tweet (x) 📡🛰️👩🏽‍🚀 teapawt.net/defenceresnet/status/1… @MYBISA @AstropoliticsWG
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Bonus content! 🚀 The Fylingdales Archive, run by @thMnsandthInstr & Chloë Barker is a social, cultural and strategic history of 60 years of Space Surveillance and Ballistic Missile Early Warning, check it out here: fylingdalesarchive.org.uk

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Great commentary by @AstropoliticsWG @MYBISA colleague Dr Bleddyn Bowen about why nuclear space weapons are not a good idea
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⁦@guardian⁩ correction for the excellent article below 👇 Arbeia Roman Fort and South Shields are in Northeast England not the North West. theguardian.com/culture/2024…

‘Their heads were nailed to the trees’: what was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?

It was the defeat that traumatised Rome, leaving 15,000 soldiers slaughtered in a German field. As a major show explores this horror and more, our writer finds traces of the fallen by a forest near...

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Astropolitics research as a activity sheet? @mybisa @AstropoliticsWG
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As we #CountdowntoVulcan, check out the #VulcanRocket #Cert1 activity and coloring sheets! Download here: bit.ly/vulcan_cert1
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Christmas isn’t Christmas without a First Nuclear Age war film @ThirdNuclearAge 🎄🎉🎄🎅
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FYI @sarahzlieberman @AstropoliticsWG
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@DouglasBShaw30 Dec 2023
Nuclear Deterrence: Unsafe at Machine Speed “Elon Musk’s change to Starlink operations in…response 2a nuclear threat from Russian President Vladimir Putin…[signals]…exposure of nuclear deterrence 2the commercial sector should no longer B ignored.” armscontrol.org/act/2023-12/…
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In the final break of the @AstropoliticsWG event we made time for a group photo 📸📸📸 It’s been a productive and engaging day 🙏😊 @sarahzlieberman @jmfey @andrewfutter @thMnsandthInstr @MarjanAjevski @SpaceParkLeic @HyPIRUoL #astropolitics23
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The incompetence of some news media is frightening. No, the United States did not conduct a nuclear test and it has not given Russia a green light to test! Facts and words matter!
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Celebrating A Decade of Veteran Centric Support By Combining The Creative Arts, Residential Retreats In 🇬🇧🇳🇱🇫🇷 & 🇺🇸Including Physical Activities To Facilitate Inclusiveness, Connection, Engagement With Civilian Sports Clubs, Relaxation & Improved Mental & Physical Wellbeing!
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Thrilled to work on this collaboration with @raffylingdales and @rafmusic using music to explore Cold War histories and Space surveillance @NorthYorkMoors @TeessideUni @UniofNewcastle @AstropoliticsWG
RAF Music (@RAFMusic) profile pictureRAF Music@RAFMusic9 Oct 2023
This video was a joint project between @RAFFylingdales, Dr Michael Mulvihill - @thMnsandthInstr and @RAFMusic to mark the 60th anniversary of #RAF #Fylingdales. #RAFMusic 🎺✈️🎶🚀🥁 #NoOrdinaryJob #Space #RoyalAirForce #NoOrdinaryGig #SpaceCommand
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Sadly didn’t make the final edit for @BBCTwo Great Coastal Journeys 👇but had a great day talking about the Fylingdales Archive fylingdalesarchive.org.uk @ahrcpress @UniofNewcastle

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RAF Fylingdales (@RAFFylingdales) profile pictureRAF Fylingdales@RAFFylingdales30 May 2023
Bradshaws at the ready! Look out for @portilloandhen tonight on BBC2 as he travels on the east coast railway visiting @RoyalAirForce Fylingdales and meets some of our amazing people #keepingspacesafe @UKSpaceCmd Watch now on the iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Pavel Podvig@russianforces29 Jul 2023
I see quite a few sympathetic tweets (are these X-somethings now?) about this piece. But I'm not sure what is the point there. That we need a new generation of “Megadeath Intellectuals”? I would say we don't. Cold war legacy is the problem, not an asset politico.com/news/magazine/2…
The Dangerous and Frightening Disappearance of the Nuclear Expert

The Dangerous and Frightening Disappearance of the Nuclear Expert

Tensions among nuclear powers are rising, but decades of peace have resulted in a dearth of people trained to deal with the continuing threat.

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If you seen @OppenheimerFilm you might like to read my chapter about Oppenheimer, Georgia O’Keeffe and the cybernetic landscape of New Mexico and the atomic bomb in @AliceCree ‘creative methods in military studies’ @RLPGBooks out in five days.
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James Simpkin@jw_simpkin10 Jul 2023
My talk with @thMnsandthInstr on how his tactile art uses similar materials used in the making of the original RAF Fylingdales geodesic panel sections - cardboard! - to demystify the nuclear apparatus, now also available at youtu.be/rR5KMlTCqn8
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Read our @BISAGIRWG convenor's write-up of May's Critical Perspectives on NATO workshop at @UniofNewcastle Co-sponsored with @BritishAcademy_ & Military War Security Research Group @HaSSFacultyNCL Read it at: bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g… @BergmanRosamond @SoranaJude
A photo of the panel at the Critical Perspectives on NATO event

ALT A photo of the panel at the Critical Perspectives on NATO event

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