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Mein Gastbeitrag für die ZEIT ist online. Er ordnet Trumps Rhetorik rund um neue Nukleartests ein, spielt mögliche Folgen durch und mahnt, dass die Erosion der Norm gegen Nukleartests eine europäische Antwort erfordert. Geschenk-Link: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Latest Trump comments on nuclear testing from CBS suggest he's latched onto the zero-yield controversy; State Department compliance reports in 2021 accused Russia of conducting "experiments" that generated "nuclear yield" (not so for China) www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

So so so proud of my PhD student @franziskastaerk.bsky.social who just published her first dissertation-linked paper on key differences intergenerational injustice in nuclear disarmament and climate action. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Climate change & nuclear weapons are often seen as twin threats to future generations. My new open access article shows that while both pose similar moral dilemmas, intergenerational nuclear injustice is harder to spot—and harder to fix. doi.org/10.1111/1758... 1/🧵

Putin just announced that Russia is ready to comply with the quant. limits of #NewSTART for one year after its expiry www.kommersant.ru/doc/8058884?...

„We have a land war on European continent. We are fully dependent on US. None of the EU members was ready to risk further escalation“. The way @sabineweyand.bsky.social explains EU-US-deal is exactly right. She explains EU‘s trade-offs & rationale — and doesn‘t put lipstick on a pig. (SZ-Dossier)

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki. #CranesForOurFuture

So here it is, the text of the UK-Germany friendship treaty. Two points that struck me on security: - clear commitment to nuclear dialogue (European panic mode is real) - clear commitment to E3 (UK, Germany, France) and G7 - but no explicit mention of Weimar+ or E5 www.gov.uk/government/n...

80 years ago this morning—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.

Whatever legitimacy was left in the European rhetoric of the "rules based order" (not to mention the law based order) has now probably gone down the drain. And that will come back to bite.🔽

On my way to #BISA2025 in Belfast Join us for our panel on the climate-nuclear nexus 👇 (Not in the program, but @rhyscrilley.bsky.social will be our discussant)

Honored to co-author the second in a series of articles in @washingtonpost.com about nuclear risks and challenges facing us. This one is about accidents and incidents that nearly triggered nuclear war, others that could potentially do so. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Strong indicator that there will be no “denuclearization.” 👇 “[T]he Trump administration wants the annual spending on the weapon activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration to increase from $19 billion this year to roughly $30 billion in the 2026 fiscal year, a rise of 58 percent.”

Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today). The times they are a-changin’.

Reagan was as mistaken about the usefulness of SDI as Trump and Hegseth will be about the "golden dome" But boy, the difference in basic rhetorical skills, intellectual ambition, and depth of arguments… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_H...

Nuclear bit starts at minute 23: Macron ready to discuss US-style nuclear sharing arrangements.

Only just managed to read this in full, and as expected, it’s a great piece pulling together all the relevant literature. Give this a read! 👇

Dieses Gespräch lässt einiges aus aber ein Aspekt macht mir echt graue Haare: Die Nonchalance, mit der wir Überlegungen über europäische (& als ‚schlechtere‘ Option deutsche) nukleare Aufrüstung anstellen, ohne dabei nur einmal die Kosten für das globale Nichtverbreitungsregime zu thematisieren.

Hey #nukesky, there's still time to apply to the Atomic Anxiety in the New Nuclear Age Fellows Scheme! The application is super short, so if you know any early career researchers, policymakers, or practitioners who might be interested then please share widely! atomicanxiety.com/2024/11/14/2...

Excited to be part of a new research project, “The Bureaucratic Politics of Nuclear Alliance Management”, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Sciences Po Paris, with my own IFSH, the University of Denver, and NORSAR. Learn more here: ifsh.de/en/news-deta... #NukeSky 1/2

Must-read @nytimes.com article by William Langewiesche on nuclear escalation risks: "History shows that deterrence often fails and that countries can maneuver themselves into corners where they have no choice but to enter into wars they cannot win, wars of assured self-destruction." is.gd/MnODDO

On my way to #TPNW2MSP in NYC 🗽 Excited to dive into discussions on nukes, intergenerational justice, or just some conference chatter over coffee/lunch. Feel free to reach out!

Once you factor in climate-related costs, such as nuclear winter, many arguments supporting just deterrence simply collapse... This article adds an interesting perspective to recent debates on nuclear ethics (--> see Nye, Sagan, Weiner & Rohlfing in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...).