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    New research project “ZUSE" takes off

    Dr. Hendrik Hegemann

    In 2015, the EU declared its goal to establish a “Security Union”. The former President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, aimed to create “a Europe that protects”. And the new President…

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    New Policy Brief: Reforming UNCCW Decision-Making

    Prof. Dr. Elvira Rosert

    In the past decades, the United Nations Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons (UNCCW) has heavily struggled to pass legally binding treaties. With the current process on the use of autonomy in…

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About the IFSH

What does the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy do? And who benefits from it? In our new video series "Short & Sweet", Prof Ursula Schröder answers four central questions about the IFSH - in under three minutes!
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What happens when a nuclear bomb explodes?

A scenario using Hamburg as an example

The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been the symbol of the cruelty and destructive power of this type of weapon for 75 years. However, they were not a warning: the nuclear weapons states continued to research and develop even more accurate and powerful bombs. The risk that nuclear weapons could actually be used is more realistic than ever before. With the help of an animated explanatory film, IFSH shows what would happen in concrete terms if a nuclear bomb were dropped on Hamburg.

(German language with English subtitle)

Arms race: Dark past or current danger?

NATO double-track, Pershing II missiles, underground nuclear bunkers: 1983 is considered one of the most dangerous years during the Cold War. More than one million people took to the streets in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time to demonstrate against the arms race. The Cold War is now history and its dangers seemed to have been overcome forever. But contracts from that time, which were intended to protect against armament, are expiring or are being terminated. Almost unnoticed by the public, a new era of the arms race has begun, this time with even more powerful bombs and new technologies.
Short and easy to understand, our animated explanatory video shows the dangers of the modern arms race.
(German with English subtitle)