Kunal Singh

I am a political scientist specializing in nuclear weapons and international security. I earned my Ph.D. from MIT’s Security Studies Program in the Department of Political Science. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin’s Clements Center for National Security. I recently concluded my tenure as a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

My research interests include nuclear proliferation, nuclear deployment strategies, grand strategy, and regional security in South Asia. My dissertation develops a typology of counterproliferation strategies and a theory explaining how states select among them. I am currently working to convert my dissertation into a book. My other ongoing projects examine proliferation attempts by authoritarian regimes, the role of precision weapons and anti-submarine technologies in nuclear rivalries, trends in proliferation assistance, and the origins of damage limitation in US nuclear policy.

My paper comparing the proliferation success of North Korea and Iraq is under ‘revise & resubmit’ at Security Studies. Another article on the India-US security partnership is under ‘revise & resubmit’ at Asia Policy. I have a forthcoming book chapter with Reid B.C. Pauly on counterproliferation, to be published in a volume edited by Carmen Wunderlich and Martin Senn. I write regularly on security and defense policy for leading outlets. I have been published in War on the Rocks, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Hindustan Times, 9DashLine, and Mint, as well as in an issue brief for the Observer Research Foundation.

I am an avid follower of cricket and tennis. When it comes to playing, my skills are more suited to badminton, though I can bring bat and pad forward to the pitch of the ball while keeping them close together.