Professor Malcolm Chalmers is director of research at the Royal United Services Institute, London, and leads its work on nuclear policy issues. He is a special adviser to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, and has been a visiting professor of defence and foreign policy in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, and a special adviser to Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw MP and Margaret Beckett MP. Professor Chalmers has also been professor of international politics at the University of Bradford; visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University; and senior consulting fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies.
His recent publications include: ‘Kingdom's End?’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 157, No. 3, June/July 2012); ‘Looking Beyond the Chicago Summit: Nuclear Weapons in Europe and the Future of NATO’ (a joint Carnegie/Brookings/RUSI paper, written with George Perkovich, Steven Pifer, Paul Schulte and Jaclyn Tandler, April 2012); ‘Arms Control after START’, in Nichols, Stuart and McCausland (eds.), Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO (Carlisle, PA: US Army War College, April 2012); ‘The End of an “Auld Sang”: Defence in an Independent Scotland’, RUSI Briefing Paper, April 2012; ‘Forging UK-China Consensus on a Strengthened NPT Regime’, RUSI Occasional Paper, March 2012; ‘Small Nuclear Forces: Five Perspectives’, RUSI Whitehall Report, 3–11, December 2011; ‘Words That Matter? NATO Declaratory Policy and the DDPR’, in Andreasen and Williams (eds.), ‘Reducing Nuclear Risks in Europe’, NTI, 2011; ‘Nuclear Weapons and the Prevention of Major War’ in Bruno Tertrais (co-ordinator), Thinking About Strategy: A Tribute to Michael Quinlan (Paris: Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, 2011); ‘Looking into the Black Hole: Is the UK Defence Budget Crisis Really Over?’, RUSI Briefing Paper, October 2011; ‘Comparing UK and Chinese Nuclear Force Development’, Peace and Development (Beijing) (June 2011); ‘If the Bombs Go: European Perspectives on NATO's Nuclear Debate’, RUSI Whitehall Report, 1–11, May 2011; ‘Continuous At-Sea Deterrence: Costs and Alternatives’, RUSI Briefing Note, July 2010; ‘Nuclear Narratives: Reflections on Declaratory Policy’, RUSI Whitehall Report, 1–10, May 2010; ‘NATO's Tactical Nuclear Dilemma’, RUSI Occasional Paper, March 2010 (with Simon Lunn); and ‘Britain's New Nuclear Debate’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 154, No. 2, April 2009).