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Reflecting on a Year of Progress in VeSPoTec: VeSPoTec’s 2024 Highlights

By Julian Schäfer. Over the past year, the VeSPoTec project has been actively involved in various events and initiatives. These...
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China’s Nuclear Policy 2024: Strategic culture in the context of the global nuclear order

By René Geiser. China’s nuclear expansion and global nuclear order The expansion of China's nuclear arsenal has increased significantly in...
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VeSPoTec’s Expert Panel at the IAEA General Conference

By Neslihan Yanikömer and Irmgard Niemeyer. On September 18, members of the research consortium VeSPoTec, Dr. Irmgard Niemeyer and Dr....
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VeSPoTec at INMM 2024

By Lukas Rademacher. „Meeting the Moment: Nuclear Stewardship in an Age of New Technology and Global Tensions” – under this...
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VeSPoTec at the AMC Annual Conference 2024

By Julian Schäfer. Dr. Sophie Kretzschmar, Dr. Leonardo Bandarra, Lukas Rademacher and Julian Schäfer from VeSPoTec participated in the AMC...
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Game Theory and Verification

By Andreas Dürholt. Game Theory is a mathematical discipline to analyze strategic interaction between two or more players. In general,...
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NEW PUBLICATION: “We’re Taking Back the Narrative”. An Interview with Benetick Kabua Maddison, of the Marshallese Educational Initiative

By Julian Schäfer. Since the film ‘Oppenheimer’ at the latest, nuclear weapons and their eminent dangers have once again become...
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Nuclear Safeguards and Irreversibility in the Reduction and Elimination of Military Nuclear Stockpiles: Three Key Questions

By Leonardo Bandarra and Noah Mayhew. On 8 April 2024, the research consortium VeSPoTec (Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable...
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VeSPoTec at the 55th “AFK-Kolloquium” of the German Association of Peace and Conflict Studies

By Linda Ostermann. VeSPoTec could not miss this year’s “AFK-Kolloquium” – a scientific conference – of the German Association of...
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Digging in the past to pave the way for the future: nuclear archaeology and irreversible nuclear disarmament.

By Sophie Kretzschmar. There is a strange concurrence of fundamentally different developments in the world today regarding nuclear disarmament: On...
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Nuclear Safeguards under Crisis Conditions: The VeSPoTec Table Top Exercise I

By Andreas Dürholt and Lukas Rademacher. On December 13 and 14, the VeSPoTec-Team welcomed nine technical experts from six different...
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