VCDNP Research Associate Noah Mayhew has been awarded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Leonard M. Rieser Award for his article, “A millennial’s view: ICBMs are ridiculous.”
The second OSCE essay competition for young scholars on conventional arms control and confidence- and security-building measures in Europe concluded on 8 December 2021.
Under the auspices of the trilateral Young Deep Cuts Commission, VCDNP Research Associate Noah Mayhew, with Artem Kvartalnov and Daria Selezneva, has published a policy brief, outlining priorities for US-Russia nuclear arms control.
In his new piece published in Arms Control Today, VCDNP Research Associate Noah Mayhew argues that restoring formal US-Russia lab-to-lab cooperation would be a positive first step in normalising relations.
The United States is captured by the debate over whether the Biden administration will adopt a no-first-use or sole‑purpose policy. VCDNP Senior Fellow Dr. Nikolai Sokov weighs in on this debate in his recent analysis.
On 3 November, the VCDNP held the sixth and final webinar in the DET Series focused on the challenges and opportunities related to new technologies in the context of transparency, verification and confidence building.
VCDNP Senior Fellow Nikolai Sokov, Senior Research Associate Hanna Notte and Research Associate Noah Mayhew have contributed chapters to a new edited volume, which examines some of the past challenges in the nuclear field, which were addressed through US-Russian cooperation.
VCDNP Senior Fellow Nikolai Sokov has authored a new article for the IMEMO journal “Pathways to Peace and Security” that examines the factors that led to the US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty and what could be next in arms control.
On the eve of the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, the VCDNP and the PIR Center hosted a webinar to discuss PIR Center's new monograph entitled Russia-U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Dialogue: Lessons Learned And Road Ahead.
On 25 May 2021, VCDNP Senior Fellow Angela Kane addressed the EU Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defence on missile proliferation issues in a post-INF world.
VCDNP Executive Director Elena Sokova spoke in a high-level conference on “strengthening international and regional cooperation in the field of disarmament,” organised by the government of Turkmenistan and the CTBTO.
Are you under 35 years old and interested in military security in Europe? Do you want to win up to €3,000 and present your work to diplomats in Vienna? The VCDNP is proud to support the 2021 OSCE-IFSH Essay Competition, again as a co-organiser and judge.
The Open Skies Treaty is in crisis, but there are opportunities to not only save the treaty, but to improve it. On 18 February 2021, the VCDNP held a webinar with Dr. Peter Jones to discuss what those opportunities are and how they could be implemented.
On 10 February 2021 the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) and the International Affairs Institute (IAI) launched their Young Women in Non‑Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative.
Following the decision by US and Russian leaders agreed to extend New START for a full five years, VCDNP Senior Fellows Angela Kane and Nikolai Sokov commented to Lenta.ru, published 26 January 2021.
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