Chris Spedding is a Technological Risk Programme Manager at the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). He is also a Cohort 4 member of the Imperial-Cambridge-Open Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy (ICO-CDT), investigating nuclear systems for space. His research and policy interests occur at the nexus between space, nuclear systems, security, and policy, where he deploys mixed-methods and futures analysis to examine the interplays between technological development and the complex policy contexts within which it occurs.