Nuclear Arms Control

Three decades after the end of the Cold War nuclear dangers are on the rise again for a variety of reasons: the arms control system, which was established between Moscow and the West over the last decades, is in decline. At the same time, since its all-out war against Ukraine, Russia is openly threatening to use nuclear weapons and - by doing so - undermining "the nuclear taboo". Beyond NATO and Russia, the owners of ninety percent of worldwide nuclear weapons, smaller nuclear weapon states such as China, India and Pakistan, are slowly increasing their arsenals. Despite international efforts to curb its nuclear ambitions, North Korea joined the club of nuclear powers, whereas Iran has been a nuclear threshold state for almost two decades.

But there is also hope: a growing number of states, supported by civil society organizations such as the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), is calling for a total prohibition of nuclear weapons. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which entered into force in 2021, is the strongest expression for this new push for global nuclear disarmament.

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Emerging & disruptive technologies and nuclear weapons decision making

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Nuclear weapons remain at the core of modern security strategies, and all great powers of the 21st century rely on nuclear deterrence to some extent. A workshop organized by the European Leadership Network (ELN) focused on the impact of new and disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Quantum Computing on nuclear decision-making. The major findings of the workshop are summarized in this report.

Eastern and Central European analyses on nuclear disarmament

In cooperation with ICAN International, the Heinrich Böll Foundation has supported four young researchers from Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine to write new analyses on nuclear disarmament in Eastern and Central Europe.

The Crisis of Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control: Diagnosis and Future Concepts

The instruments of bi- and multilateral nuclear disarmament and arms control are in a state of despair. Under the label of N.EX.T. (Nuclear Expert Talks), fifteen scholars from Europe, Russia, and the United States gathered in Berlin in November 2016 to discuss the current state of disarmament and arms control.
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The Time Has Come (for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons) - H Wokusch

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The Time Has Come (for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons)  

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