Thomas Fraise is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), working on the Ritual Deterrence project. His research focuses on nuclear deterrence in Europe during the Cold War, and the implications of nuclear weapons for democratic regimes. He is currently working on a book project on nuclear secrecy.

He defended his thesis at Sciences Po in 2023, entitled “Restricted democracies: nuclear weapons programs, secrecy, and democracy in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden (1939-1974)”. In 2023-2024, he was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Security Studies Program).

Extended nuclear deterrence, Nuclear deterrence, State secrecy, Rituals

Restricted democracies : nuclear weapons programs, secrecy, and democracy in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden (1939-1974), supervised by Benoît Pélopidas

[with Egeland K., Taha H.] Casting the atomic canon: (R)evolving nuclear strategy. European Journal of International Security, 2022, 7(3): 382-399.

« Comment cacher un nuage ? L’organisation du secret des essais atmosphériques français (1957-1974) », Relations internationales, 2023/2 (n° 194), pp.11-26.

[with Egeland K.] Able Archer: How close of a call was it? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2023, 79(3): 155-160.