Deep Cuts Panel at UN Conference in New York City
On May 2 2019, the IFSH organized a panel discussion at the Preparatory Conference for the Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at Deutsches Haus, close to the UN headquarters in New York…
Deep Cuts Report in Moscow Released
On June20, 2016 IFSH Hamburg and the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO, RAN), supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Moscow…
Third Report of the Deep Cuts Commission Released
The third report of the Deep Cuts Commission ("Back from the Brink: Toward Restraint and Dialogue between Russia and the West") recommends the West and Russia to build on a number of existing arms…
New Deep Cuts Working Paper on Anticipatory Arms Control released
During the second term of the Obama administration, U.S.-Russia relations have deteriorated to levels not seen since the Cold War. Nevertheles, the United States and Russia should seek a treaty that…
The Offense/Defense Problem: How Missile Defense and Conventional Precision-Guided Weapons Can Complicate Further Deep Cuts in Nuclear Weapons
The Offense/Defense Problem: How Missile Defense and Conventional Precision-Guided Weapons Can Complicate Further Deep Cuts in Nuclear Weapons.
Deep Cuts Working Paper # 6 by Dennis M. Gormley.
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Two Workshops of the Deep Cuts Commission
From February 26-28 and March 4-6 IFSH Hamburg held two workshops of the Deep Cuts Commission. The topics of the two workshops were "Avoiding Strategic Instability" and "Improving European Security".…
New Publication: Deep Cuts Issue Brief on Cyber Security and Nuclear Stability
The possibility that hackers might break into nuclear command and control facilities, compromise early warning or firing systems, or even cause the launch of nuclear weapons, has become disturbingly…
New Deep Cuts Issue Brief on Conventional Arms Control in Europe
This new Deep Cuts Issue Brief by Greg Govan (retired Brigadier General of the U.S. Army) asks a number of fundamental questions in relation to the core assumption that Europe still needs conventional…
New Deep Cuts Issue Brief on U.S.-Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation
This Issue Brief by Nickolas Roth (Harvard University) describes how the United States and Russia arrived at this point. It highlights differences in how the United States and Russia approach nuclear…
Presentation of the 2nd Report of the Deep Cuts Commission in New York
On April 30, members of the Deep Cuts Commission met in New York at the side-lines of the NPT Review Conference for a public discussion focussing on the recommendations of the 2nd Report of the…