Activities

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

Germany is once again debating nuclear deterrence. This has happened on various occasions before: in 2016 when Donald Trump came into  ...

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

Dr. Ulrich Kühn, head of the IFSH research area “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies”, was recently appointed to the newly founded  ...

Strategic Stability in the 21st Century

What is “Strategic Stability?” Is it still relevant, and what are its most serious challenges in the 21st century? These are  ...

Researchers discuss the future of arms control

On 19 April 2023, international experts gathered at a workshop, jointly organized by IFSH and the Center for Strategic and International  ...

The Legacy Costs of Joining a Nuclear Alliance

Focusing on the northern NATO accession debate, Franziska Stärk and Dr. Ulrich Kühn discuss the legacy costs faced by Finland and  ...

DIANA – NATO’s Emerging Technology Center

In their latest piece for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Dr Ulrich Kühn with his former IFSH colleagues Marina Favaro and  ...

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

For now, Russia plans to suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty. This was announced by the Russian  ...

Guidelines for a research agenda on nuclear injustice

Roundtable in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists „Nuclear weapons are to global security what fossil fuels are to a green economy: a  ...

Major success for Hamburg’s arms control research

The team of the Research and Transfer Project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies was able to convince the Federal Foreign Office  ...

Ulrich Kühn: Closer Cooperation with Harvard University

Dr Ulrich Kühn, project lead and head of the research area Arms Control and Emerging Technologies at IFSH, has recently been  ...