Webinar invitation
With the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) set to expire on Feb 5 2026, strategic weapons issues loom over relations between the major powers. Against this context, our latest webinar will spread awareness of a new report ‘Masters of the Air: Strategic Stability and conventional strikes’. The report considers how U.S. precision weapons threaten strategic stability by creating survival risks for Russian and Chinese strategic deterrent systems.
The report’s authors Dan Plesch and Manuel Galileo will outline their findings and answer your questions.
To join this webinar, on 12 December, 17.30 (UK time), register via Zoom here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscO-uqjktGdyjrFDnpKtgSL8bn3h6Dp9x
Bios
Dan Plesch
Professor Dan Plesch is the Director of the Strategic Concept for Removal of Arms and Proliferation (SCRAP) at SOAS, and is responsible for developing its strategy to enhance international security through General and Complete Disarmament. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler; America, Hitler and the UN; Wartime Origins and the future UN (with Prof. Weiss); and the Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN and on Disarmament.
Professor Plesch read history at Nottingham and obtained professional qualifications in social work and public administration from Bristol in 1979 and 1980, he then worked for non-governmental organisations focused on the abolition of nuclear weapons. In 1986 he founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and directed it from Washington DC until 2001, when he became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. Academic posts since 1988 include Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Research Associate at Birkbeck College, University of London and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University.
Manuel Galileo
Manuel Galileo is a military analyst at SCRAP Weapons at SOAS. He is researching the topic of conventional counterforce between NATO, Russia, and China, as well as the subsequent need for multilateral diplomacy and mutually beneficial arms control based on data.
Manuel is a Civil Engineer from the University of Bath and has worked in intergovernmental infrastructure projects in Africa involving China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Besides civil engineering, he has an MA in Diplomacy from SOAS and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE).
