Daniel Skeffington
Senior Fellow and Coordinator, Policy Exchange Nuclear Enterprise Commission
Daniel Skeffington is a Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Enterprise Commission, and a Doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Statecraft and National Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London. He specialises in Anglo-American foreign policy, constitutional history, and the history of political thought, with a particular focus on British grand strategy since 1945. Mr Skeffington holds an undergraduate degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bath, and a postgraduate degree in Political Theory specialising in intellectual history from the London School of Economics.
Related Publications
Powering the Future
Download Publication Online Reader Powering the Future examines how Britain can secure a leading role in the emerging civil maritime nuclear industry. Nuclear-powered civilian vessels and floating power plants promise the transformation of commercial shipping, energy resilience and sustained access, power and presence in remote and contested maritime regions. Russia already leads in operational deployment, while China is combining its expanding civil nuclear programme with the scale of the world’s […]
Seizing the Initiative
Download Publication Online Reader The UK’s decision to rejoin NATO’s dual-capable aircraft (DCA) mission presents opportunities for the United Kingdom in the realm of nuclear signalling – a task it has not had to think about for almost thirty years. Nuclear signalling involves the largely non-verbal dimensions of deterrence communication, such as hardware, deployments and exercises by a state’s military capabilities. During a crisis with a nuclear-armed adversary, the visible arming, […]
Restoring Deterrence Credibility
Download Publication Online Reader Nuclear weapons are central to the United Kingdom and the NATO Alliance, and have helped shaped British statecraft and deterrence for decades. However, their value rests largely on a nebulous concept: ‘credibility’. What makes for a ‘credible’ nuclear deterrent, and, in an increasingly uncertain world, how can the UK strengthen the credibility of its deterrence and take a more active role in leading the Alliance? The […]
‘Intellectual Rearmament’ in the Third Nuclear Age
Download Publication Online Reader Britain’s nuclear deterrent and strategy are configured for a strategic environment that no longer exists. Nuclear weapons have returned to the forefront of international politics, driven by intensifying great-power competition, nuclear coercion and increasingly collaborative adversaries. Yet, Britain’s strategic assumptions are still grounded in the unipolarity of the post-Cold War period, during which time it retired its sub-strategic capabilities, leading its Trident-armed submarines to be tasked […]