Russian response to US mid-range missiles in Germany
Russia has announced a military response to the planned deployment of US medium-range missiles in Germany starting in 2026. In an interview with the news website Semafor, IFSH expert Dr Tobias Fella…
Escalation risks of hypersonic boost-glide vehicles
Steve Fetter, Tim Thies and Victor MizinAvangard, Dark Eagle, or Dongfeng 17 – more and more countries are developing their own hypersonic weapons, or more precisely, hypersonic boost-glide vehicles. In an Issue Brief for the Deep Cuts…
What happens without the New START Treaty?
New Deep Cuts publication by Steven Pifer, Patricia Jaworek and Victor MizinDer New START-Vertrag ist der letzte noch verbliebene Rüstungskontrollvertrag zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Russland zur Begrenzung von strategischen Atomwaffen. Auch dieses Abkommen hat der…
Video Online: "It's (not) rocket science" - rocket potentials explained in an understandable way
IFSH contribution to the German Forum on Security Policy 2023The 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…
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…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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…