• Deep Cuts Issue Brief #15: The TPNW and the NPT

    Lina-Marieke Hilgert, Angela Kane and Anastasia Malygina

    On 22nd January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force. The UN Secretary-General will convene a first meeting of states parties within one year. Also in 2021,…

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  • New Deep Cuts Issue Briefs out now

    Lina-Marieke Hilgert

    Deep Cuts Issue Brief #12

    "Incorporating Missile Defense in Strategic Arms Control"

    For some six decades, strategic ballistic missile defenses have played an integral role in the evolution of the…

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  • Deep Cuts Briefing with former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Gottemoeller

    Lina-Marieke Hilgert

    Nuclear arms control faces an uncertain future. The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty, New START, will expire in February 2021, unless Russia and the U.S. extend the accord. Looking beyond…

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  • Public Briefing: Whither New START?

    Lina-Marieke Hilgert

    What are the future prospects of the New START Treaty? Briefing on the 22 June Vienna nuclear arms control talks on

    Friday, June 19, 2020
    7:00 - 8:00 AM Washington, D.C.
    1:00 - 2:00 PM Berlin, Vienna

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  • Issue Brief: Nuclear Weapons in Europe after the INF Treaty

    Lina-Marieke Hilgert

    The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was rightly regarded as one of the most important nuclear disarmament agreements. By eliminating all ground-based intermediate- and shorter-range…

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  • How to fix, preserve and strengthen the Open Skies Treaty?

    Dr. Oliver Meier

    The Deep Cuts Project cordially invites you to the following Zoom briefing: 
    After the Trump Administration's declared exit: How to fix, preserve and strengthen the Open Skies Treaty

    on

    June 12,…

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  • New Issue Brief of the Deep Cuts Project about the Treaty on Open Skies

    Lina-Marieke Hilgert

    A picture, it is said, is worth 1,000 words. The air image-centric Treaty on Open Skies embodies that concept perfectly. The sharp pictures shared among all the parties to the treaty create more…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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