🌐 As the 2026 NPT Review Conference begins in New York, understanding P5 perspectives is key.
In this @theeln.bsky.social analysis, Emmanuelle Maitre (FRS) highlights France’s focus on balancing the NPT’s three pillars and advancing risk-reduction efforts with partners. ⚛️
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From secrecy to safeguards: how did Brazil transform its nuclear policy?
In this #IISS "The Arms Control Primer" episode, experts unpack Brazil’s path — from a military programme to cooperation, ABACC, and NPT accession.
🎧 Listen: www.iiss.org/podcasts/arm...
📣 Final call to apply: #SIPRI and @eunpdc.bsky.social offer an intensive in-person course on how technological convergence and geopolitical competition are reshaping nuclear, chemical and biological risks.
🗓️ Last chance to apply by 13 April 2026
🔗 More info & application: bit.ly/4sq9aGi
🎙️ South Korea’s nuclear trajectory, from Cold War deployments to today’s hedging debates, offers key insights into deterrence and non-proliferation.
By #IISS, with Dr @bollfrass.bsky.social, Dr Lami Kim & Dr Se Young Jang
🎧 www.iiss.org/podcasts/arm...
This year’s themes include:
• (Re)imagining the global nuclear order
• Regional perspectives on arms control
• Emerging technologies & the future of warfare
🎯 Selected participants will also attend the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Annual Conference (9–10 November 2026).
Held within the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Annual Conference, the workshop offers a space to explore key challenges in non-proliferation and disarmament.
📍 Brussels
🗓 9 Nov 2026 (morning)
📢 Call for Applications – 2026 Next Generation Workshop
Apply now 👉 tinyurl.com/yj2uzvp6
The @iaionline.bsky.social invites MA/PhD students, early-career researchers, junior diplomats & young professionals.
Travel & accommodation covered (3 nights)
Deadline: 24 April 2026
Apply: eunpdc@iai.it
📣 Learning opportunity: #SIPRI and @eunpdc.bsky.social are offering an intensive in-person course on WMD non-proliferation and disarmament for graduate students and early-career professionals in technical or natural science disciplines
🔗 More info & application: bit.ly/4cGE7ls
🚀 Call for Applications open! Join the 2nd Edition of the #HCoC Youth Group (2026-2027).
Organised by FRS and funded by the EU, this 18-month programme offers young professionals expert dialogues, research publication, and a workshop in Lithuania!
Deadline: 31/07/2026
Apply : tinyurl.com/dp6ff3kb
On 20–23 January, SIPRI and @eunpdc.bsky.social held an intensive online course on how geopolitical challenges and emerging technologies affect the risks, proliferation and control of weapons of mass destruction.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3LZWVAX
#NonProliferation #Disarmament #WMD #EmergingTech
📣 Vacancies & opportunities!
@ifshhamburg.bsky.social is currently hiring for nine open positions, including senior roles, as part of its expansion strategy.
📍 Positions available in Hamburg and Berlin.
👉 Apply now: www.ifsh.de/en/career
🎧 Libya’s nuclear programme remains a rare case of voluntary rollback.
In a new episode of The Arms Control Primer by IISS, experts revisit the 2003 inspections and what they revealed about verification limits and the “Libyan model”.
▶️ www.iiss.org/podcasts/arm...
🔎 New #IISS episode of "The Arms Control Primer": “Better know a non-nuke: Germany”. Dr @bollfrass.bsky.social talks with Prof Marina Henke& Dr Lutsch Andreas about Germany’s nuclear path, NATO sharing, the NPT & today’s deterrence debate amid Russia’s war. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3b9xezvz
South Africa is the only state to have built and then fully dismantled a nuclear arsenal. In the latest episode of The Arms Control Primer (#IISS), @bollfrass.bsky.social, Anna-Mart van Wyk and Robin Möser explore how and why it happened.
Listen: tinyurl.com/3n44fdbu
How did Sweden go from the brink of a nuclear programme to a leader in disarmament diplomacy?
In this new @IISS_org’s "Arms Control Primer" episode, Dr Emma Rosengren & Dr Thomas Jonter discuss Sweden’s path of restraint and lessons for today’s non-proliferation challenges.
👉 tinyurl.com/bden2wnm
Iraq’s secretive nuclear ambitions under Saddam Hussein revealed the limits of global non-proliferation.
In "The Arms Control Primer" by #IISS, @alexbollfrass talks with Dr Hans Blix & Dr Stephen Herzog on how the Iraqi case reshaped verification & #ArmsControl.
🎧 tinyurl.com/y3dhwnnc
#Iraq
🚨 NEW SEASON 🚨
🎙️ Season 5 of The Arms Control Primer by #IISS kicks off!
Host @bollfrass.bsky.social with Dr. Nicole Grajewski & Dr. Azadeh Zamirirad unpack #Iran’s nuclear programme—from the Shah to the JCPOA, the 2025 Israel–Iran conflict & what’s next.
🔗 go.iiss.org/4mDZYuV
🌍 Apply now for the 2025/2026 Emerging Voices Network at BASIC! 📝📥 A global community of next-gen nuclear policy leaders with masterclasses, mentorship & publications, fostering dialogue North ↔️ South. 👉 tinyurl.com/5h76nuew
#EUNPDC
🚨 New EUNPDC newsletter!
What’s new in non-proliferation & disarmament:
📑 Latest publications
🤝 Network news & events
📢 Calls & opportunities
🎧 Podcast: The Arms Control Poseur (Season 5, Oct 2)
👉 Read here: tinyurl.com/mvna5yyz
This event will provide nine selected PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers with the opportunity to present their work on emerging disruptive technology and related themes, and to receive tailored feedback from expert discussants as well as peers.
📢Call for abstracts
@tmcasser.bsky.social is welcoming abstracts regarding the [Early career conference] "Emerging disruptive technology and arms control", scheduled to take place on 17–18 November 2025 in The Hague.
📆Apply by 29 September 2025.
➡️ www.asser.nl/education-ev...
Attendants of the day 2 #EUNPDC Consultative Meeting will now have the opportunity to think about the proliferation and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, in a session chaired by @FedeDallArch (@VCDNP) with Speakers : Djenabou Cisse, Sitki Egeli, Sarah Grand-Clement.
We are back after a short break, now hearing from the militarisation of #DualUse and uncontrolled items: Improving export controls, with Quentin Michel, (@universitedeliege.bsky.social ),
@koljabrockmann.bsky.social (@sipri.org) , Lotte Bruynen (Deloitte), Stéphane CHARDON (EU_Commission)
The first session chaired by Dr. Sibylle Bauer (@sipri.org) will look at current trends on global arms markets, with interventions from Paul Holtom (@unidir.org), Dr. Julien Malizard (@ECODEF_IHEDN), Katarina Djokic (@SIPRI.org).
Participants are welcomed by Benjamin Hautecouverture FRS and Michal Karczmarz 🇪🇺 EU EEAS
We are back in Brussels this morning for day 2 of the 🇪🇺 #EUNPDC Consultative Meeting organised by FRS with Benjamin hauteCouverture, on behalf of EUNPDC, EEAS & EU_FPI!
Follow our discussions on key #ArmsControl #Disarmament & #Nonproliferation issues throughout the day 🧵
📝 New transcript!
From 🇫🇷 nuclear independence to 🇩🇪 debates & 🇬🇧–🇺🇸 ties, Season 4 of #ArmsControlPoseur explored nuclear strategy, risk & the future of arms control.
In this round-up, @bollfrass.bsky.social & Zuzanna Gwadera (IISS) share key insights.
👉 go.iiss.org/40aTLyl
🚨 Job opening at Princeton
University
The Program on Science & Global Security seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate (start Sept 2025 or later). Focus: nuclear arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, AI, quantum & space. 12-mo renewable, $65–72k. PhD required. 👉 tinyurl.com/yc5kdufa
🌍 New EUNPDC member!
We are pleased to welcome the Prespa Institute, an independent think tank based in Skopje, North Macedonia.
The Institute is dedicated to the study, research and analysis of international affairs, foreign policy, European affairs and Europeanization.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4x7bse3d