Wasch mir den Pelz, aber mach mich nicht nass.

🚨Thrilled to see my latest article (open access) with Nuclear Knowledges now out with Ethics&IntlAffairs. We consider the limits of “tragedy” in the context of military violence and argue for a renewed focus on political responsibility. 1/6 doi.org/10.1017/S08926…

Proud Prophet, the 1983 nuclear war game, ran freely and was allowed to play out to its natural conclusion: global devastation. The game provided critical lessons that remain crucial today. nyti.ms/4ggdwdi

Excited to be part of this research project alongside great colleagues and to have IFSH Hamburg contributing to this collaboration. Learn more here: ifsh.de/en/news-detail…

🚨The Department of State has released its latest "Report to Congress on Implementation of the #NewSTART Treaty" for 2024. Key paragraph below which notes that, unlike when the US assessed Russia to have likely stayed within Treaty limits in 2023, Russia might have minimally exceeded

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Somebody please explain this phenomenon of German economics (!) professors going rogue and asking for German nukes as the go-to answer for a US retreat from Europe…

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

I’ll be at #ISA2025 in Chicago! Feel free to reach out, always open to some conference chatter over coffee or lunch.

Ich bin nun schon über 30 Jahre Klimaforscher, und die Erfahrung hat mich leider gelehrt: Lippenbekenntnisse zu Klimazielen bedeuten gar nichts. Null. Nur konkrete Maßnahmen zählen.

I can’t recommend this enough! The lecturers are true experts, and I’ve never learned so much in so little time.

Colin Kahl at #nukecon: without discussing underlying intelligence, we are quite good at discerning the talking and actions, so when assessment of potential nuclear use went to 50% in autumn 2022 it wouldn’t be just from the people talking over the phone

One would think that if the Russian threat were considered existential for the 🇪🇺, the latter would stop this 👇 practice - right?

Help me out, please! :)

Presented my paper today in Uppsala on Europe’s approach to protecting nuclear facilities from attacks. One disturbing takeaway: in June 1981, when Israel struck Iraq’s safeguarded reactor, the Ten members of the European Community spoke with one voice. 1/

“Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment” - Eliot Cohen

Ahem.

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki. #CranesForOurFuture