• Video Online: "It's (not) rocket science" - rocket potentials explained in an understandable way

    IFSH contribution to the German Forum on Security Policy 2023

    The use of missiles in military contexts, the entities they pose threats to, and the ways they can be averted or effectively controlled through arms control policies have been extensively discussed…

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  • New Deep Cuts Working Paper on Transparency, Ambiguity, and Prospects for New International Commitments in the Nuclear Realm


    Nuclear weapon states’ policies with regards to their arsenals and doctrines remain ambiguous, with transparency used mainly to support explicit and implicit threats. When a state has the apparent…

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  • Statement on the Postponement of the Meeting of the New START Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC)

     

    The Deep Cuts Commission and the Young Deep Cuts Commission regret the postponement of the meeting of the New START Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC), which had been scheduled to take place in…

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  • Deep Cuts Commission members at NPT Review Conference call for resumption of arms control talks

     

    On August 10, the Challenges to Deep Cuts Project organized a side event at the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Participants and panelists at the event…

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  • A Stress Test for Nuclear Deterrence - Article in IPS

     

    In their article in IPS, Maren Vieluf, Caroline Fehl, and Sascha Hach (both HSFK/PRIF) argue that the West should advocate for no first strike to counter the looming erosion of global arms control.…

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  • IFSH Scientists at UN Conference on Disarmament in New York

     

    Reducing nuclear risks and nuclear arsenals remain high on the NPT agenda, even more so against the background of the war against Ukraine. The trilateral German-Russian-U.S. Deep Cuts Commission has…

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  • Statement by the Deep Cuts Commission on Defusing the Ukraine Crisis through Arms Control  

     

    The tensions between Russia, Ukraine and NATO create the potential for a disastrous war that can and must be avoided through serious and deft diplomacy. 

    The Deep Cuts Commission calls on Russia,…

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  • New Young Deep Cuts Policy Brief

    Publication tackles risks arising at the cyber-nuclear nexus

    In the latest Young Deep Cuts Policy Brief “'Hacking’ Away at Risks Arising at the Cyber-Nuclear Nexus”, Commissioners Grace Kier, Lindsay Rand and Tim Thies analyse the growing risks at the…

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  • Deep Cuts Briefing on Strategic Stability

     

    The Deep Cuts Project invites you to the Zoom briefing:


    How the U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability Dialogue can and must help to move nuclear arms control and disarmament forward
    on
    Tuesday,…

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  • New Young Deep Cuts Policy Brief

    Publication outlines roadmap for U.S.-Russian Arms Control

    In its latest Policy Brief "Revitalizing U.S.-Russia Arms Control: An Integrated Approach" Young Deep Cuts Commissioners Vladislav Chernavskikh, Jarret Fisher and Patricia Jaworek outline how progress…

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