Dr Nick Ritchie - Staff Profile
| Name | Dr Nick Ritchie |
| Contact Position | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow |
| Room and Building | T1.1.c Ashfield Building |
| Telephone Number | +44(0) 1274 236860 |
| Email Address | n.ritchie@bradford.ac.uk |
Biography
Dr Nick Ritchie is a Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. His current work on British nuclear weapons policy is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Details of the programme can be found at www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bdrc/nuclear/trident/trident.html.
He completed his PhD on “The Evolution of US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War” at Bradford in 2007. He previously worked as a Senior Researcher on international security issues at the Oxford Research Group. He serves on the Executive Committee of the British Pugwash Group and the Board of the Nuclear Information Service.
Research Areas
Research areas include international security, US and UK national security policy, ‘rogue’ states, and nuclear arms control, proliferation and disarmament.
Students Supervised
Yannick Queau: The adaptation of the nuclear strategies of the three NATO nuclear powers (USA, UK, France) to the 21st century
John Borrie: International Efforts to Address the Humanitarian Impacts of Cluster Munitions from 2003 to 2008
Neil Bulleyment: The future for British Counterinsurgency in regard to future deployments in support of peace related operations
Bibliography
Journal articles
“A Progressive Nuclear Weapons Policy: Rethinking Continuous-at-Sea Deterrence”, RUSI Journal, Vol. 155 No. 2 (May 2010) (with Paul Ingram).
“Relinquishing Nuclear Weapons: Identities, Networks and the British Bomb”, International Affairs, Vol. 86 No. 2 (March 2010)
“Trident: The Wrong Weapon at the Wrong Time”, Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 90 (April 2009)
“Deterrence Dogma: Challenging the Relevance of British Nuclear Weapons”, International Affairs, Vol. 85 No. 1 (January 2009)
“Replacing Trident: Britain, America And Nuclear Weapons”, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 28 No. 2 (August 2007)
Books
US Nuclear Weapons Policy Since the End of the Cold War: Russians, ‘Rogues’ and Domestic Division, (Routledge: Abingdon, 2008)
The Political Road to War: Iraq, Bush and 9/11 (Routledge: Abingdon, 2006) (With Paul Rogers)
Book chapters
“Countering the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism”, in Fisher, D. and Wicker, B. (eds), Just War on Terror? A Christian and Muslim Response, Ashgate: London, 2010 forthcoming
“Renewing Trident: Britain’s Nuclear Politics”, with Michael Sulmeyer, in The Nuclear Legacy in a Contemporary Context, Owen Price (ed), Center for Strategic and International Studies: Washington, D.C., 2007
Reports
“Continuity / Change: Rethinking Options for Trident Replacement” Bradford Disarmament Research Centre report, University of Bradford, June 2010
“Stepping Down the Nuclear Ladder: Options for Trident on a Path to Zero”, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre report, University of Bradford, May 2009
“Trident and British Identity: Letting go of Nuclear Weapons”, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre report, University of Bradford, September 2008
"North Korea: Problems, Perceptions and Proposals", Oxford Research Group, Oxford, 2004 (With Frank Barnaby)