Arms Control and Emerging Technologies

Research and Transfer Project

Successful arms control, disarmament and the monitoring of new technologies are central peace and security policy challenges of our time. With an interdisciplinary team, the project team investigates the current status, function and strengthening of these cooperative instruments and contributes its findings to the political process. The project, which has been funded by the Federal Foreign Office in two separate funding phases since 2019, is structured along a modular four-part structure: a social science research module, a natural science research module, a transfer module and a module for cross-project projects. In terms of content, the project is dedicated to the research fields of weapons of mass destruction, new technologies, conventional arms dynamics and arms control, global orders and arms control, verification, escalation dynamics and the consequences of war.

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Closer Cooperation with Harvard University

IFSH Brief Analysis: Legal Aspects of Attacks on Iranian Nuclear Facilities

Mateusz Labuz: From Ship of Theseus to Modern Elections – Deepfakes and Their Influence on Political Advertising

Alexander Kelle et al.: Countering the Continuing Danger from Toxin Weapons

China's military and nuclear armament: IFSH workshop at the Federal Academy for Security Policy

Germany Rethinking Future of Nuclear Security

Governing the Impact of Emerging Technologies: Actors, Technologies, and Regulation

The OSCE and Arms Control in a Divided Europe: Policy Brief for the European Leadership Network

Excluded from the Table? US-Russia Talks and the Future of Ukraine

Europe and America: Time for Serious Decoupling

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Organizing Nuclear Policies in Europe

The Fall Crisis of 2022: Why did Russia not use nuclear arms?

IFSH Joins International Research Project on the Bureaucratic Politics of Nuclear Alliance Management

Panel Discussion in Berlin: How could Germany’s security policy look like in the future?

Website for Hamburg Arms Control Project

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Nuclear Disarmament Summits Briefing

Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent

Security in Northeast Asia: Expert meeting in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 20 September 2024

Anniversary Reception to Mark the Fifth Anniversary of the IFSH Berlin Office

Western Weapons against Russian Targets: On the Risk of Escalation in the Ukraine War

Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike

Germany in the Third Nuclear Age

Possible Consequences of Deploying US Medium-Range Missiles in Europe

US Intermediate-Range Missiles in Germany: Article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons

IFSH Researcher Speaks at Federal Foreign Office Conference

Germany's Atomic Zeitenwende

Autonomous Weapon Systems: Webinar at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)

Presentation in Washington D.C.: International book project on Germany's nuclear weapons policy in the 21st century

The Unintended Consequences of the 'Zeitenwende' - New Article for the IPS Journal

Behavioral Arms Control and East Asia

Germany Debates Nuclear Weapons, Again. But Now it’s Different

IFSH Researcher Joins International Advisory Board of the Peace Research Center Prague

Presentation of Research Results at the UN Headquarters in New York

Reducing Tensions Over Nuclear Testing at Very Low Yield

Workshop in Hamburg on Arms Control and Emerging Technologies

The Future of the CFE Treaty: Interview in "Arms Control Today"

The limits of Critique: Responses to the war against Ukraine from the Russian foreign policy expert community

Strategic Stability in the 21st Century

The role of alliances in shaping bilateral strategic partnerships among governments: An empirical analysis.

The Legacy Costs of Joining a Nuclear Alliance

Video Online: "It's (not) rocket science" - rocket potentials explained in an understandable way

IFSH Researcher at ISA Annual Conference 2023

Researchers discuss the future of arms control

DIANA – NATO’s Emerging Technology Center

IFSH Scientist selected to support Scientific Advisory Group of Ban Treaty

A Comprehensive View at Germany's Security

Turkey’s nuclear energy depends on Russia

IFSH researcher as Helmut Schmidt Fellow in Washington DC

IFSH press release: Russia puts last major arms control treaty on ice

International Authors' Workshop in Hamburg

Guidelines for a research agenda on nuclear injustice

Berlin Office welcomes International Diplomatic Course of the Federal Foreign Office

Major success for Hamburg's arms control research

IFSH Researcher gives Key Note Address at Open World Conference 2022

Indo-Pacific Policy

Berlin Office Hosts Briefing on Effects of Nuclear Weapons

The Case of Zaporizhzhia: Making International Nuclear Safety and Security Fit for Conflict

Nuclear Injustice - Article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

New Research Report: Forecasting the future impact of emerging technologies on international stability and human security

Berlin Office welcomes UN Disarmament Fellows

IFSH receives funding for nuclear network project with Harvard University

IFSH Visiting Research Fellows are selected for the “Emergency Fellowship Programme – Ukraine” funding scheme

Dr Ulrich Kühn on the "Military Matters" podcast

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TPNW Member States Follow Recommendations from IFSH and Princeton Researchers

New Special Issue: Crisis in Arms Control

The Injustice of the Nuclear Security Order

Video: IFSH Panel Discussion on Military Applications of Emerging and Evolving Technologies

Prof. Dr Götz Neuneck receives Cross of Merit

Non-violence and Ukraine

Nuclear threat of the war in Ukraine? Interview in The Irish Times

New Publication: The Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control

Smaller nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine? Interview with The New York Times and CNN

Human Augmentation and Nuclear Risk: The Value of a Few Seconds

What is the risk of nuclear escalation in Ukraine? Interview with The New York Times

Debate on nuclear threats and the war in the Ukraine

Is there a way out of this war? TV debate on France24

How great is the danger of an inadvertent escalation between Russia and NATO?

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A Letter from Moscow: (In)divisible Security and Helsinki 2.0

Bloomberg article on Germany and the USA’s Different Approach to Russia

Call for Papers: Strategic Stability in the 21st Century

Virtual Reality Project "Nuclear Biscuit" on Capitol Hill

15 Minutes to Save the World - The Guardian

IFSH Report Provides Incoming Federal Government with Recommendations on Arms Control

Why do hypersonic missiles matter? – BBC interview

The West Cannot Rescue Arms Control Alone: Interview in Judy Dempsey´s Strategic Europe Blog

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Recent publication: Report on the Project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies

Joint INMM/ESARDA Annual Meeting 2021

Video: Presentation of the project results and interactive website

Peace Report 2021 Published

New Policy Paper: "Weapons of Mass Distortion"

New Project on Nuclear Warhead Authentication

Lecture about Germany´s nuclear politics since the Cold War

ISA Annual Conference 2021

New IFSH Video on Autonomous Weapons

Between rejection and accession: Germany and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

German and Japanese perspective on the current nuclear disarmament architecture

Virtual conference: Security Perspectives for Northern Europe

Back to the Future? The New Missile Crisis

Project participants

Dr. Ulrich Kühn
Head of the Research Area Arms Control and Emerging Technologies
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Zahra Bagheri
Researcher
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Sina Fiona Brauer
Student Assistant
Anja Dahlmann
Head of Berlin Office
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Marten Ennen, M.A.
Project Coordinator
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Dr. Timur Kadyshev
Senior Researcher
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Theres Klose
Coordinator and Event Manager of the Berlin office
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Lukas Mengelkamp
Researcher
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Dr. Sabine Mokry
Researcher
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Dr. Ondřej Rosendorf
Researcher
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Franziska Stärk
Researcher
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Tim Thies
Researcher
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Jamie Withorne
Visiting Research Fellow
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