Dr. Timur Kadyshev

Senior Researcher
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kadyshev@ifsh.de
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Vita

Timur Kadyshev is a Senior Researcher within the natural sciences module of the Research and Transfer Project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies. His current research focuses on technical and political aspects of missile proliferation and missile defenses, with particular interest in capabilities of missile defenses and their effects on the global and regional military balances. Previously, Timur Kadyshev worked as a Research Consultant at Princeton University’s Science and Global Security Program. Before that, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Moscow’s Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies, where he conducted research on technical aspects of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. In 2001/02, Timur Kadyshev spent an academic year as a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s CISAC, and early in his career worked as a Research Fellow at the Defense and Arms Control Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. 

Research profile

  • Technical and political aspects of missiles and missile proliferation
  • Missile defense, strategic and non-strategic
  • Strategic nuclear balance, deterrence, arms control, strategic stability 

Selected Publications

  • Kadyshev, Timur, Moritz Kütt. 2025. Analyzing the Utility of Arrow 3 for European Missile Defense Using Footprint Calculations. Science & Global Security 32 (1-3): 174-218. DOI: 10.1080/08929882.2024.2444750.
  • Moric, Igor, Timur Kadyshev. 2024. Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike. Defence and Peace Economics 36 (2): 141-166. DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2024.2396415.
  • Barzashka, Ivanka, Timur Kadyshev, Götz Neuneck, Ivan Oelrich. 2011.
    How to Avoid a New Arms Race.
     In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • Diakov, Anatoli S., Eugene Miasnikov, Timur Kadyshev. 2011. Nuclear Reductions After New START: Obstacles and Opportunities. Arms Control Today 41 (4): 15-22.
  • Bukharin, Oleg, Timur Kadyshev, Eugene Miasnikov, Pavel Podvig, Igor Sutyagin, Maxim Tarasenko, Boris Zhelezov. 2001. Podvig, Pavel, eds. 2001. Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/6028.001.0001.
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Projects

Arms Control and Emerging Technologies