The Nuclear Unicorn
Technical engineering, research, and analysis at the intersection of nuclear systems, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, and national security.
Selected Work
Selected work spanning strategic research, security engineering, critical infrastructure, and technical analysis.
Research examining the strategic implications of Russia's Poseidon nuclear-powered unmanned underwater vehicle and its potential use as a pre-deployed first-strike system.
Read researchA sanitized engineering portfolio documenting segmented infrastructure, Zero Trust ingress, isolated CI/CD, backup and recovery engineering, SIEM integration, administrative trust boundaries, and security-focused architecture decisions.
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Security engineering work focused on architecture, trust boundaries, infrastructure assurance, and controlled operations.
Industrial control systems, operational technology, cyber-range development, and critical-infrastructure security.
Segmentation, Zero Trust ingress, administrative boundaries, security monitoring, and infrastructure hardening.
Controlled CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, isolated execution, validation gates, backup dependencies, and rollback.
Research Areas
Writing
Why tactical nuclear weapons erode deterrence, intensify delivery-system ambiguity, and increase escalation risk.
An analysis of China’s evolving sea-based nuclear deterrent, Russia’s undersea modernization, and the strategic implications of expanding Sino-Russian maritime coordination.
An analysis of the workforce, infrastructure, training investment, and global talent flows surrounding the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
The Nuclear Unicorn