With my mother. Daddy’s funeral. He wasn’t assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.” But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism. He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn’t exist.

📢 UPDATED RESOURCE: Our webpage addressing misconception about biological and chemical weapons has now been updated, to disprove five new misconceptions on the #1972 and #CWC! Available in all 6 UN languages! Check it out here. ⬇️ vertic.org/misconceptions/

Roses are red. Violets are blue. The Treaty of Tlatelolco, Happy Birthday to you!

#ONNnews: Open Nuclear Network, VERTIC and CNS held a pioneering workshop to forecast the developments in #DPRK's nuclear and missile programmes over the coming decade. Kudos to VCDNP for hosting & Swift Centre for facilitating. Learn more 🔗oneearthfuture.org/en/open-nuclea…

📢#ONNexternal: ONN Director Andreas Persbo, Sen. Analyst Sarah Laderman & #ONNadviser Laura Rockwood joined Wilton Park's dialogue on nuclear disarmament irreversibility. VERTIC's Alberto Muti @ VERTIC presented initial findings of our work on nuclear latency & irreversibility.

This was a stimulating and highly productive meeting - incredible levels of hands-on expertise and focus on practical issues. Certainly a highlight of recent work!

I have been - and remain - reluctant to engage with the 'do nuclear weapons deter' debate on Twitter/X. Mainly because Twitter is a great medium for sharing information but a poor debating platform. 1/12 (long 🧵apols)

VERTIC is growing! Come and work with us in taking it to the next level

It was such a pleasure to spend the week with DIRCO South Africa South African Diplomats, Scientists and Students, offering modules on ISS & VERTIC’s Nuclear Disarmament Verification course. Of course, the legendary Noel Stott was behind it all!

I was in the room for part of the week, and what a great course! Participants were so on it!

This was a great event!

We're out on T&V! Read on for BWC, me and grant christopher - On Mastodon on territorial disputes, and more!

'While the prime minister’s intent was to acknowledge the ideological underpinnings of the violence, the term “thuggery” downplays the organised networked, and ideological components of the riots' write Emily Winterbotham, Claudia Wallner and Dr Jessica White. theguardian.com/world/article/…

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The #BWCNIMDatabase is 1 year old! 🎉 Check out the 125 published profiles & stay tuned as new profiles are published weekly! We are pleased to have been working with United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research & UNICC on this project & look forward to our continued collaboration with #1972BWC States Parties

I'd also add that anybody who think that it's very easy to get mental health support through the NHS most likely has an expensive private insurance.

Excellent work by our colleagues at ONN!

Out now on the Bulletin!

A timely piece on AI and understanding bioweapons risk, with contributions by Alberto Muti @ VERTIC and Hailey Wingo