NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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SIPRI Yearbook 2021. Summary
SIPRI, 2021
NATO’s New Strategic Concept. Balancing Responses To Multiple Threats.
Martin Hurt and Tony Lawrence, ICDS, July 2021
New Activity at Abandoned 50 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon
Veronika Bedenko, Open Nuclear Network, July 2021
Paris and Berlin: still no strategic convergence, while the big questions return
Barbarar Kunz, IFSH, June 2021
Nuclear Escalation Strategies and Perceptions: The United States, the Russian Federation, and China
Wilfred Wan, UNIDIR, June 2021
Paris and Berlin: still no strategic convergence, while the big questions return
Barbarar Kunz, IFSH, June 2021
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perceptions
Michal Onderco and Michal Smetana, Peace Research Center Prague (in European Security), June 2021
La guerre mondiale évitée de justesse ? La légende Able Archer ‘83
(in French), Bruno Tertrais, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, May 2021
Implications for United Kingdom nuclear deterrence should the Union fail
Rear Admiral John Gower CB OBE, European Leadership Network, April 2021
Nuclear Weapons and International Humanitarian Law – A doctrinal wormhole
Nour Assaf, SciencesPo, April 2021
Nuclear weapons decision-making under technological complexity
Katarzyna Kubiak,Sylvia Mishra, Graham Stacey, European Leadership Network, March 2021
The future of strategic stability
Benjamin Hautecouverture, Emmanuelle Maitre, Bruno Tertrais, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, March 2021
Le Royaume-Uni ouvre la voie de la prolifération nucléaire
(in French), Jean-Marie Collin, GRIP, March 2021
Time to withdraw U.S. nuclear weapons deployed in Europe
Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo (USPID), March 2021
« Latence » nucléaire, dissuasion « virtuelle » et notion de seuil : introduction au cas iranien (2/3)
(in French), Observatoire de la dissuasion No.84, Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, February 2021
French vs. Australian nuclear policies: convergences
divergences and avenues for cooperation, Eloise Watson, FRS, December 2020
The modernisation of nuclear arsenals [in French]
Emmanuelle Maitre and Bruno Tertrais, FRS, October 2020
A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme
Robert E. Kelley, SIPRI, October 2020
Lancement d’une frappe nucléaire : analyse comparée des procédures et garde-fous prévus par le droit américain, britannique et français
(in French), Marie-Alix Lanternier, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, January 2021
« Latence » nucléaire, dissuasion « virtuelle » et notion de seuil : introduction au cas iranien (1/3) »
(in French), Observatoire de la dissuasion No.83, Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, January 2021
Nuclear deterrence in Europe: points of convergence, singularities and prospects for cooperation
Emmanuelle Maître, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, January 2021
Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974)
Benoît Pelopidas, Sébastien Philippe, CERI, December 2020
World Nuclear Forces
SIPRI Yearbook 2020: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
The European Equation of Nuclear Deterrence: Variables and Possible Solutions
Quentin Lopinot, IFRI, July 2020
British Nuclear Deterrent: uncertainties around Trident’s renewal (in French)
Julie Claustre, GRIP, July 2020
A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme
Robert E. Kelley, SIPRI, October 2020
SIPRI Yearbook 2020. Summary
SIPRI, 2020
Russia Clarifies its nuclear deterrence policy
Nikolai Sokov, VCDNP, June 2020
Frappe conventionnelle stratégique et dissuasion : quelques perceptions chinoises
Observatoire de la dissuasion N°79, Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, September 2020
Les conséquences du Covid-19 sur la dissuasion nucléaire
Emmanuelle Maitre et Marie-Alix Lanternier (in French), FRS, May 2020
Towards Greater Nuclear Restraint: Raising the Threshold for Nuclear Weapon Use
Tytti Erästö and Petr Topychkanov, SIPRI, May 2020
La place de la dissuasion dans la “Vision stratégique” du CEMAT
(in French), Observatoire de la dissuasion N°77, FRS, June 2020
SIPRI Yearbook 2019. Summary
SIPRI, 2019
Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century
Editors: Beyza Unal, Yasmin Afina and Patricia Lewis, Chatham House, April 2020
French Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Forces, And Future: A Handbook
Bruno Tertrais, FRS, March 2020
Nuclear Comeback Time in Europe?
Nikolai Sokov, VCDNP, July 2019
The Franco-German Tandem: Bridging the Gap on Nuclear Issues
Emmanuelle Maitre, Proliferation Papers, No. 61, IFRI, January 2019
SIPRI Yearbook 2018. Summary
SIPRI, 2018
France and nuclear deterrence: President Macron’s Ecole de Guerre speech (in French)
Benjamin Hautecouverture and Emmanuelle Maitre, FRS, February 2020
Results of the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review
Artur Kacprzyk, PISM Bulletin, no. 29 (1100), 16 February 2018
Forces nucléaires françaises: quel renouvellement? (in French)
Corentin Brustlein, IFRI, September 2017
Brexit’s Nuclear Fallout: Approaching the Cliff’s Edge?
Matt Korda, VERTIC, August 2017
Rethinking deterrence and assurance Western deterrence strategies: at an inflection point?
Report, Wilton Park Conference WP1545
The next generation(s) of Europeans facing nuclear weapons: Forgetful, indifferent, but supportive?
Benoit Pelopidas, NP paper No.56, March 2017, 14pp.
Cyber warfare and nuclear weapons: Game-changing consequences?
Sico van der Meer, SWP Working Paper Chapter, December 12, 2016
Brexit Effects: The Future of Safeguards in the United Kingdom
Daniel Davies, VERTIC, Summer 2016
The US Long Range Strike Bomber: Future Roles, Capabilities and Challenges
Justin Bronk, Timothy Stafford, RUSI Defence Systems, 11 December 2015
Scenarios for Russia’s Withdrawal from the INF Treaty
Jacek Durkalec, Bulletin PISM no 97 (829), 30 October 2015
Governing Uranium in Pakistan – A dual search for energy and military security
Cindy Vestergaard, Zafar Nawaz Jaspal, Mohmmad Riaz, Jamshed Hashmi, Jawad Hashmi, Asra Hassan, Malik A. Ellahi & Maria Sultan , DIIS Report 2015:08, 19 June 2015, 68pp.
This Week: UK nuclear weapons – a source of insecurity?
Paul Ingram, News, 26 May 2015
Nuclear attitudes in Central Europe
Erzsebet N. Rozsa, Anna Peczeli, NP paper No.42, January 2015, 16pp.
This Week: Trident – a liability the UK can ill afford to keep
Paul Ingram, September 17, 2014
The Uncertain Future of the British Nuclear Arsenal in the Context of the Scottish Referendum
Artur Kacprzyk, PISM Bulletin, No. 115 (710), 16 September 2014, 2p.
The Challenges of Coherent U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Assurance
Paul Ingram, February 2014, 4p.
China’s Nuclear Idiosyncrasies and Their Challenges
Jeffrey Lewis, Proliferation Papers No.47, November - December 2013, 31p.
U.S. Extended Deterrence Weakened? Lessons Learned from the North Korean Crisis
Lukasz Kulesa, PISM Bulletin No. 57 (510), 28 May 2013
Pakistan’s rise to a nuclear power and German arms exports (in German)
Klaus-Peter Ricke, HSFK Report 4/2012, November 2012, 45p.
Turkey and the bomb
Sinan Ülgen, Carnegie Europe, February 2012
In Defense of Deterrence: The Relevance, Morality and Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons
Bruno Tertrais, IFRI Proliferation Papers, Fall 2011
Nuclear deterrence and nuclear assurance in the NATO Area
Wilton Park Conference, Conference report for WP1101, 13p., June 2011
Le nucléaire dans la politique de défense russe (in French)
Isabelle Facon, In les Cahiers de Mars, N. 203, Mars 2010
Nuclear Stockpile Management: A Technical and Political Assessment
Bernard Sitt & Camille Grand, CESIM Research Paper, ICNND, October 2009
Tailored Deterrence: a French Perspective
Bruno Tertrais, in Karl-Heinz Kamp & David S. Yost (dir.), "NATO and 21st Century Deterrence", NATO Defense College, 2009
Great Power Deterrence Relationships : Russia, The United States and Europe
Isabelle Facon, in Karl-Heinz Kamp and David Yost (ed.), « NATO and 21st Century Deterrence », NATO Defense College Forum Papers, n° 8, mai 2009
Les limites de la dissuasion (in French)
Bruno Tertrais, Recherches & Documents N°03/2009, 35 p., Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Cybersecurity of Nuclear Weapons Systems: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Consequences
Beyza Unal, Patricia Lewis, Research Paper, The Stanley Foundation, Published with Chatham House, January 2018, 24pp.

NUCLEAR ARSENALS

New Activity at Abandoned 50 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon
Veronika Bedenko, Open Nuclear Network, July 2021
German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perceptions
Michal Onderco and Michal Smetana, Peace Research Center Prague (in European Security), June 2021
Nuclear Weapons and International Humanitarian Law – A doctrinal wormhole
Nour Assaf, SciencesPo, April 2021
The modernisation of nuclear arsenals [in French]
Emmanuelle Maitre and Bruno Tertrais, FRS, October 2020
A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme
Robert E. Kelley, SIPRI, October 2020
Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974)
Benoît Pelopidas, Sébastien Philippe, CERI, December 2020
World Nuclear Forces
SIPRI Yearbook 2020: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
British Nuclear Deterrent: uncertainties around Trident’s renewal (in French)
Julie Claustre, GRIP, July 2020
A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme
Robert E. Kelley, SIPRI, October 2020
French Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Forces, And Future: A Handbook
Bruno Tertrais, FRS, March 2020
Brexit’s Nuclear Fallout: Approaching the Cliff’s Edge?
Matt Korda, VERTIC, August 2017
Cyber warfare and nuclear weapons: Game-changing consequences?
Sico van der Meer, SWP Working Paper Chapter, December 12, 2016
Brexit Effects: The Future of Safeguards in the United Kingdom
Daniel Davies, VERTIC, Summer 2016
The US Long Range Strike Bomber: Future Roles, Capabilities and Challenges
Justin Bronk, Timothy Stafford, RUSI Defence Systems, 11 December 2015
This Week: Trident – a liability the UK can ill afford to keep
Paul Ingram, September 17, 2014
The Uncertain Future of the British Nuclear Arsenal in the Context of the Scottish Referendum
Artur Kacprzyk, PISM Bulletin, No. 115 (710), 16 September 2014, 2p.
Le nucléaire dans la politique de défense russe (in French)
Isabelle Facon, In les Cahiers de Mars, N. 203, Mars 2010
Nuclear Stockpile Management: A Technical and Political Assessment
Bernard Sitt & Camille Grand, CESIM Research Paper, ICNND, October 2009

NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND DOCTRINES

NATO’s New Strategic Concept. Balancing Responses To Multiple Threats.
Martin Hurt and Tony Lawrence, ICDS, July 2021
Paris and Berlin: still no strategic convergence, while the big questions return
Barbarar Kunz, IFSH, June 2021
Nuclear Escalation Strategies and Perceptions: The United States, the Russian Federation, and China
Wilfred Wan, UNIDIR, June 2021
Paris and Berlin: still no strategic convergence, while the big questions return
Barbarar Kunz, IFSH, June 2021
La guerre mondiale évitée de justesse ? La légende Able Archer ‘83
(in French), Bruno Tertrais, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, May 2021
Implications for United Kingdom nuclear deterrence should the Union fail
Rear Admiral John Gower CB OBE, European Leadership Network, April 2021
Nuclear weapons decision-making under technological complexity
Katarzyna Kubiak,Sylvia Mishra, Graham Stacey, European Leadership Network, March 2021
The future of strategic stability
Benjamin Hautecouverture, Emmanuelle Maitre, Bruno Tertrais, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, March 2021
Le Royaume-Uni ouvre la voie de la prolifération nucléaire
(in French), Jean-Marie Collin, GRIP, March 2021
« Latence » nucléaire, dissuasion « virtuelle » et notion de seuil : introduction au cas iranien (2/3)
(in French), Observatoire de la dissuasion No.84, Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, February 2021
French vs. Australian nuclear policies: convergences
divergences and avenues for cooperation, Eloise Watson, FRS, December 2020
Lancement d’une frappe nucléaire : analyse comparée des procédures et garde-fous prévus par le droit américain, britannique et français
(in French), Marie-Alix Lanternier, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, January 2021
« Latence » nucléaire, dissuasion « virtuelle » et notion de seuil : introduction au cas iranien (1/3) »
(in French), Observatoire de la dissuasion No.83, Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, January 2021
Nuclear deterrence in Europe: points of convergence, singularities and prospects for cooperation
Emmanuelle Maître, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, January 2021
The European Equation of Nuclear Deterrence: Variables and Possible Solutions
Quentin Lopinot, IFRI, July 2020
Russia Clarifies its nuclear deterrence policy
Nikolai Sokov, VCDNP, June 2020
Frappe conventionnelle stratégique et dissuasion : quelques perceptions chinoises
Observatoire de la dissuasion N°79, Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, September 2020
Les conséquences du Covid-19 sur la dissuasion nucléaire
Emmanuelle Maitre et Marie-Alix Lanternier (in French), FRS, May 2020
La place de la dissuasion dans la “Vision stratégique” du CEMAT
(in French), Observatoire de la dissuasion N°77, FRS, June 2020
Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century
Editors: Beyza Unal, Yasmin Afina and Patricia Lewis, Chatham House, April 2020
France and nuclear deterrence: President Macron’s Ecole de Guerre speech (in French)
Benjamin Hautecouverture and Emmanuelle Maitre, FRS, February 2020
Results of the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review
Artur Kacprzyk, PISM Bulletin, no. 29 (1100), 16 February 2018
Rethinking deterrence and assurance Western deterrence strategies: at an inflection point?
Report, Wilton Park Conference WP1545
The Challenges of Coherent U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Assurance
Paul Ingram, February 2014, 4p.
China’s Nuclear Idiosyncrasies and Their Challenges
Jeffrey Lewis, Proliferation Papers No.47, November - December 2013, 31p.
U.S. Extended Deterrence Weakened? Lessons Learned from the North Korean Crisis
Lukasz Kulesa, PISM Bulletin No. 57 (510), 28 May 2013
In Defense of Deterrence: The Relevance, Morality and Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons
Bruno Tertrais, IFRI Proliferation Papers, Fall 2011
Nuclear deterrence and nuclear assurance in the NATO Area
Wilton Park Conference, Conference report for WP1101, 13p., June 2011
Tailored Deterrence: a French Perspective
Bruno Tertrais, in Karl-Heinz Kamp & David S. Yost (dir.), "NATO and 21st Century Deterrence", NATO Defense College, 2009
Great Power Deterrence Relationships : Russia, The United States and Europe
Isabelle Facon, in Karl-Heinz Kamp and David Yost (ed.), « NATO and 21st Century Deterrence », NATO Defense College Forum Papers, n° 8, mai 2009
Les limites de la dissuasion (in French)
Bruno Tertrais, Recherches & Documents N°03/2009, 35 p., Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique

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