UK INTERDISCIPLINARY DISARMAMENT SYMPOSIUM! ☮️✌️ 6th Dec University of Bradford RT BISA - British International Studies Association Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) BISA - British International Studies Association British Pugwash Prof Katherine Brickell ICAN Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Dr Kandida Purnell Dr. Sara Koopman now at @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Paul Rogers Roger Mac Ginty James Patton Rogers Thom Davies Prof Claire Corkhill Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Professor Lucy Easthope

What could the future of European nuclear deterrence look like? In a new 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪forum for Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Héloïse Fayet Andrew Futter & I compare similarities and differences between our three countries' policies. A short 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Many fear that #Russia might escalate, horizontally or vertically, in response to Ukrainian long-range strikes. But Western states are not alone in facing escalation dilemmas - #Russia faces them, too. My latest column in the Financial Times on.ft.com/3TDbdIz 🧵/1

Putin announces five changes to the "Basic Principles of State Policy on #Nuclear Deterrence" (2020): (1) more allies under nuclear umbrella, (2) adds more military risks, (3) specifies states targeted, (4) adds condition for use, (5) names Belarus 1/7 kremlin.ru/events/preside…

🎉 My very first paper for a non-French journal Survival: Global Politics and Strategy IISS News is "trending"! Seems like nuclear deterrence in Europe is a fancy topic (who would have guessed?). Help us (Andrew Futter Ulrich Kühn) getting hyped by reading it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I understand anything Putin says abt #nuclear these days is inflammatory, but wasn't the clause/concept that an NWS won't use nuclear weapons agnst an NNWS unless attacked by such in association w/ another NWS around for a long time? Here it is in the Budapest Memorandum 1/

Adding my two cents on the doctrinal developments in Russia in the last 24h - for what its worth. A thread 1/

Berlin appears to have stopped approving weapons exports to Israel, even while insisting that there is no ban in place.

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland want EU funds to beef up border with Russia euronews.com/2024/09/28/est…

European nuclear deterrent, 🇺🇸 long-range missiles in 🇩🇪, and forecasting costs of missile defense. Lots of missiles in the September issue of our monthly Hamburg Arms Control Newsletter. mailchi.mp/8a80e132276f/h…

Am 15.10 lädt das IFSH Hamburg zur öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussion „Diplomatie, Abschreckung, Rüstungskontrolle – Zukunft der deutschen Sicherheitspolitik?“ ein, feat. Sarah Brockmeier-Large Roderich Kiesewetter🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 . Weitere Infos finden Sie hier hamburg-armscontrol.de/aktivitaeten/d… ©️Jörg Braukmann 9/13

Some personal news: I have joined the IFSH Hamburg arms control team as a researcher, after working there since Nov 2022 as a research assistant. I will focus on the intersection of arms control and military strategy and in particular try to bring in my background as a historian.

Russian forces have now entered Vuhledar, a Ukrainian stronghold in the south of Donetsk oblast that has withstood numerous Russian attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Map: DeepState UA

Solidarity with Elena Chernenko

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 Come work with me! State ADS Bureau’s Office of Strategic Stability & Deterrence is hiring a Team Chief to oversee the staff responsible for implementing New START & conceptualizing future arms control measures Open to the public & closes 10/14 usajobs.gov/job/812032800

1/2 We have published a short piece (w/ Michal Onderco) in the new issue of Arms Control Today to present some policy-relevant findings from our latest survey experiment conducted in Russia: armscontrol.org/aca/2130 Arms Control Assoc Daryl G Kimball Carol Giacomo

Arrow 3 hit to kill-intercepts. Not to be confused with Arrow 2 intercepts, which are performed within the atmosphere around 50 km altitude and use HE fragmentation warheads for terminal phase intercepts.

Today is Tag der Deutschen Einheit in Germany, the national holiday in honour of German reunification. It's also the day we celebrate David Hasselhoff single-handedly bringing down the Berlin Wall by singing "Looking for Freedom" atop a cherry picker.

Well, there is a long history of German media and politicians obviously not having a clue what they are talking about when they mention Iron Dome. 🙄

Russian daily Kommersant publishes interview with former Indian foreign secretary/ambassador to Russia, in which he warns: If #Russia uses a #nuclear weapon, it will lose the support of the Global South. It would be dangerous for Russia to think otherwise. kommersant.ru/doc/7198424