VeSPoTec

VeSPoTec

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Interdisciplinary Research on Nuclear Verification ⚛️ | collaboration of RWTH Aachen University, University of Duisburg-Essen, PRIF/TU Darmstadt and Forschungszentrum Jülich | sponsored by the 🇩🇪 Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

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VeSPoTec
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VeSPoTec-ers love to travel, so getting to visit the IAEA archive in Vienna felt like a nerdy dream come true ✈️📚✨ Check out our "VeSPo-Blog-turned-travel-blog" here! 🔗 vespotec.rwth-aachen.de/2026/02/20/w...

vespotec.rwth-aachen.deWhat can be found in the depths of the IAEA Archives in Vienna? - VeSPoTecA treasure of uncountable worth lays in Vienna (Austria): the archives of IAEA. It documents the history of IAEA and its activities in promoting the use of peaceful uses of nuclear technology and safe...
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It was a truly a pleasure bringing together these important voices on nonproliferation. Thanks, @cntrarmscontrol.org for the nice report 🥰Until hopefully soon! - L.

CNTR | Arms Control Research@cntrarmscontrol.org

At this year’s #AFKColloquium, our CNTR & @vespotec.bsky.social team explored how tech, society, and policy can work together to stop WMD proliferation — from societal verification to AI risks & China’s nuclear strategy. Read more ⬇️ www.cntrarmscontrol.org/news/article...

cntrarmscontrol.orgCNTR & VeSPoTec at the annual AFK ColloquiumTechnology, Power, Responsibility: Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to the Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
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📣Call for Papers Any plans for September? Join our #DVPW conference panel in Würzburg! We invite theoretical/ empirical contributions on #knowledge production in #nuclear (dis)order formation and the role of knowledge in nuclear #policy. 🔗https://vespotec.rwth-aachen.de/news/#cfp-wuerzburg2026

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Great energy in Vienna today as #VeSPoTec and #VCDNP brought experts together to discuss “Prospects for #Nuclear #Verification in Times of Uncertainty and Crisis.” Insightful debates, fresh perspectives, and real momentum for future work 🔍🌍✨

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" #Tritium is not a sole barrier to irreversible #disarmament, but it is a very consequential" - MD Arifur Rahman 👉 Learn more about tritium's challenge to disarmament #irreversibility in our newest "New Perspectives on #Nuclear #Verification" blog post! 🔗 bit.ly/3LGW4Fq

bit.lyTritium’s Challenge to Disarmament Irreversibility - VeSPoTecBy MD Arifur Rahman. Tritium is a radioactive material with a half-life span of just 12.3 years, which is usually used as a boosting element in nuclear weapons, allowing relatively smaller bombs to re...
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“I became an activist because I couldn’t reconcile the pride the two regional countries take in #nuclearweapons with the risks we live under… verification is the difference between myth and fact, war and peace — #verification must matter before missiles fly.” - Kashaf Sohail 🔗https://bit.ly/4sDKzPv

bit.lyWhen Prestige Overrides Proof: How Mistrust Undermines Nuclear Verification in South Asia - VeSPoTecBy Kashaf Sohail. When we talk about “verification” in nuclear politics, most people picture inspectors counting warheads, satellites tracking fissile materials, or monitoring treaty compliance. But v...
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👏 New blog post out today: “Nuclear Verification in the South American Cone – The Case of ABACC.” A deep dive into how Argentina and Brazil built one of the world’s most successful regional verification systems - and what it means for future non‑proliferation efforts. 🔍 🔗 bit.ly/4pBWdI0

bit.lyNuclear Verification in the South American Cone: the case of ABACC. - VeSPoTecBy Natalia Luers. ABACC, the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials, was created after Argentina and Brazil shifted from nuclear rivalry to cooperation, turning the...
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🚀 Nuclear rules in orbit exist - but how do we verify them? A lone Russian satellite exposed the gap between treaties & trust. Raoul Cardellini Leipertz unpacks the space–nuclear nexus and why verification matters now more than ever. Read here 👉 bit.ly/49jdkJI #SpaceSecurity #NuclearVerification

bit.lyPassing Through or Power Play? The Verification Gap in the Space–Nuclear Nexus - VeSPoTecBy Raoul Cardellini Leipertz. Last spring, a lone Russian satellite drifting through an unexpected low Earth orbit set off alarms from Washington to Brussels. Was it an innocuous on-orbit experiment o...

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Leonardo Bandarra
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Second post is out! Check here👇

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🚨New blog post: "Compliance Conundrums and the Credibility of the IAEA". Sanaa Alvira explores the questions "What does a finding of non‑compliance signify? What actions should and should not be taken by the State?" Read here 👉 bit.ly/495kH7p #IAEA #safeguards #nuclear

bit.lyCompliance Conundrums and the Credibility of the IAEA​ - VeSPoTecBy Sanaa Alvira. In June 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors found Iran to be in non-compliance with its safeguards obligations for the first time in nearly two deca...
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🚨New blog post: "Compliance Conundrums and the Credibility of the IAEA". Sanaa Alvira explores the questions "What does a finding of non‑compliance signify? What actions should and should not be taken by the State?" Read here 👉 bit.ly/495kH7p #IAEA #safeguards #nuclear

bit.lyCompliance Conundrums and the Credibility of the IAEA​ - VeSPoTecBy Sanaa Alvira. In June 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors found Iran to be in non-compliance with its safeguards obligations for the first time in nearly two deca...
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🚨 New blog post out now! In a world of overflowing data and limited institutional capacity, OSINT may hold the key to strengthening nuclear verification. This piece explores how researchers and policymakers can harness OSINT to close critical gaps. 🔗 Read the full article here: bit.ly/4rGp6ou

bit.lyToo much information, too little IAEA: How can OSINT contribute to Nuclear Verification?​ - VeSPoTecBy Philipp Fischer. Nuclear verification is a critical component of global security, ensuring compliance with international treaties and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. However, verif...

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Leonardo Bandarra
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I am happy to announce that our @vespotec.bsky.social and @inef-duisburg.bsky.social Blog series, New Perspectives on Nuclear Verification, is finally online! If you are a young scholar or an early-career practitioner, consider contributing, and stay tuned to our channels for the upcoming posts!

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vespotec.rwth-aachen.deIntroducing VeSPoTec and INEF’s new blogs series​ - VeSPoTecBy Leonardo Bandarra. “New Perspectives on Nuclear Verification” is a blog series designed to bring the next generation of ideas and voices into this debate. We believe that early career researchers (...
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👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Early career researchers in nuclear verification: share your ideas in our blog series New Perspectives on Nuclear Verification 🌍📚. Amplify interdisciplinary & regional voices for scientists, policymakers & practitioners. Contribute now! 🚀

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Leonardo Bandarra
@leocbandarra.bsky.social

@patnabuco.bsky.social, our colleagues from NSI and I are organizing an exhibition on children and nuclear anxiety next month in Sheffield, UK. Curious? More info below. 👇👇 @vespotec.bsky.social @inef-duisburg.bsky.social

Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli@patnabuco.bsky.social

I am organising this Exhibition with @leocbandarra.bsky.social and the UK-based charity Never Such Innocence on Children and Nuclear Anxiety, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social More info 👇👇 sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...

sheffield.ac.ukNew exhibition: Children and nuclear anxiety draws on research 80 years after Hiroshima and NagasakiAn exhibition which explores young people's perspectives on nuclear war and its impact through artworks and poetry forms part of this year’s Festival of Social Science.
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It's #ThrowbackThursday - the perfect time to look back at last week's SPS 2025 conference. 😌 An inspiring World Café on future research agendas on #nonproliferation, #armscontrol and #disarmament, followed by 2 days of insightful presentations from both the natural and social sciences. 🎓 (1/2)

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🕊️ Peace & Conflict Researchers in NRW - let’s connect! Join us at the 2025 meeting of the Network Peace and Conflict Research NRW at Ruhr University Bochum. 📅 09 September 2025 📬 Questions & registration: ifhv@rub.de See you there!

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🌟 Congrats to our PI @carmenwunderlich.bsky.social for receiving the Political Science Teaching Prize 🏆 for her seminar on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation & global security! With her exceptional teaching approach, she is empowering students to critically engage with political developments. 👏

VeSPoTec
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Her teaching blends small group work, interactive guest lectures & excursions that raise awareness of academic and societal responsibility beyond university. 🎓🌍 🎉 Join the award ceremony: 👉 bit.ly/Carmen-Lehrp...

bit.lyVerleihung des Lehrpreises für Politikwissenschaft 2025 an Dr. Carmen WunderlichDer mit 1.000 Euro dotierte Lehrpreis Politikwissenschaft der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) und der Schader-Stiftung geht 2025 an Dr. Carmen Wunderlich vom Institut für Entwickl...
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🚨 Only 19 days to go! 🚨 Join us in Aachen, Germany for the SPS Conference on Technical Peace & Conflict Research 🕊️ 🌍 Interdisciplinary insights 🤖 Emerging technologies 🛡️ Arms control & verification 💡 And so much more Be part of the conversation and register now! 👇 More info below 👇

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🔥 Register now: 4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Technical Peace Research – SPS ’25! 📅 September 10–12, 2025 📍Aachen, Germany 🔍 Focus: verification, risks posed by conventional arms and WMDs, role of emerging technologies, ... 👉 Register here: sps.peasec.de/sps25/

sps.peasec.deSPS’25 – Science Peace Security: Interdisciplinary Conference Series on Technical Peace Research
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🎉Wer sie verpasst hat oder einfach nicht genug bekommen kann: Die Aufzeichnungen der VeSPoTec-Ringvorlesung sind jetzt online.🍿 Danke an Frank Sauer, Marvin Mendyka, Frank Kuhn, Betty Suh, Lydia Wachs und Martin Senn für die spannendenden Beiträge 🥰 🎞️: bit.ly/3UGexUL

bit.lyUDEchannelKreative Inspiration zwischen Rhein und Ruhr: Inmitten der dichtesten Hochschullandschaft Europas liegt die Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE). 2003 durch die Fusion der Gesamthochschulen in Duisburg u...
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Was für ein würdiger Abschluss unserer Ringvorlesung "Leben mit der Bombe"! 🎉 Wir bedanken uns bei Lydia Wachs, Martin Senn und Elisabeth Suh für die spannenden Beiträge 👏 und freuen uns über das rege Interesse an der Veranstaltungsreihe in den vergangenen Wochen! 😊

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VeSPoTec members @lindaostermann.bsky.social from @rwth.bsky.social and Leonardo Bandarra from @unidue.bsky.social attended the #EUNPDC2023 in Brussels. Thanks again for the insightful sessions and wonderful discussions in between. Looking forward to next time 😊.

Linda Ostermann@lindaostermann.bsky.social

I had a great time at #EUNPDC2023 with my @vespotec.bsky.social colleague Leonardo Bandarra. I got many inspiring insights during the sessions (especially on conflict and cooperation in Outer Space and East Asia) and am very grateful to have met exciting people like Jo-Ansie van Wyk.

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Vielen Dank an @drfranksauer.bsky.social für seinen Vortrag über das Spiel mit der Angst, Abschreckung und die Bombe (zurück) in unseren Köpfen. 📣Am 7.12. geht es zur gleichen Zeit mit einer Podiumsdiskussion rund um "Die Bombe und Deutschland" weiter. bit.ly/46lQcFR Viel Spaß im Bordbistro!

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📣HEUTE in der Ringvorlesung: @drfranksauer.bsky.social über die humanitären Konsequenzen eines Einsatzes von Atomwaffen und die Rolle des "Spiels mit der Angst" im Konzept der nuklearen Abschreckung. 📆 HEUTE (30.11.), 18:30 Uhr 📍 Online und ohne Anmeldung 👉 bit.ly/46lQcFR

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Carmen Wunderlich
@carmenwunderlich.bsky.social

📢 NACHHOLTERMIN: Virtueller Vortrag von @drfranksauer ℹ️ Welche humanitären Konsequenzen hätte ein Atomwaffeneinsatz? Welche Rolle hat das „Spiel mit der Angst“ im Konzept der #nuklearen #Abschreckung? 📅 30.11, 18:30 - 19:45 📍 Online ➡️ uni-due.de/politik/leben_…...

Linda Ostermann@lindaostermann.bsky.social

📣Neuer Termin für den 2. Teil der @vespotec.bsky.social Ringvorlesung mit @drfranksauer.bsky.social! Da es mit der Bahn heute nicht klappte, verlassen wir uns nächste Woche lieber auf die digitale Infrastruktur 🤞 📆30.11.23 um 18:30 Uhr 💻ONLINE 👉 bit.ly/46lQcFR

VeSPoTec
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🚨NEUER TERMIN‼️ Leider mussten wir die Veranstaltung mit @drfranksauer.bsky.social heute kurzfristig aufgrund erheblicher Zugverspätungen absagen. Die gute Nachricht: Nächste Woche versuchen wir es ONLINE noch einmal! 📆30.11.23 um 18:30 Uhr Zum Zoom-Raum geht's hier: bit.ly/46lQcFR

VeSPoTec@vespotec.bsky.social

🛑 Die heutige Veranstaltung mit @drfranksauer.bsky.social findet leider kurzfristig ❗NICHT ❗ statt und wird zeitnah online nachgeholt. 🛑 Weitere Informationen folgen in Kürze.

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@vespotec.bsky.social

🛑 Die heutige Veranstaltung mit @drfranksauer.bsky.social findet leider kurzfristig ❗NICHT ❗ statt und wird zeitnah online nachgeholt. 🛑 Weitere Informationen folgen in Kürze.

VeSPoTec@vespotec.bsky.social

📣Heute um 18:30 Uhr Teil 2 der VeSPoTec-Ringvorlesung! Dieses Mal mit @drfranksauer.bsky.social über "Putin und die Bombe in unseren Köpfen", nukleare #Abschreckung und die Folgen von #Atomwaffen. Die Teilnahme ist für alle möglich: 📍in Duisburg und 💻 online bit.ly/46lQcFR

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