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Michal Smetana

Michal Smetana is Assistant Professor at Charles University and Coordinator of the Peace Research Center Prague. His articles have been published in International Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Review, The Washington Quarterly, and many other academic and policy journals. He is the author of Nuclear Deviance: Stigma Politics and the Rules of the Nonproliferation Game.


Articles by Michal Smetana

A test version of the new B61-12 guided nuclear bomb to be deployed in Europe as part of a modernization program. Photo from a video by Air Force Staff Sgt. Cody Griffith.

Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?

By Michal Smetana, Michal Onderco, Tom Etienne | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The more the merrier: Time for a multilateral turn in nuclear disarmament

By Michal Smetana, O. Ditrych | Uncategorized