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Ulrich Kühn is the director of the Arms Control and Emerging Technologies Program at the University of Hamburg, and a nonresident scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

 


Articles by Ulrich Kühn

Germany debates nuclear weapons, again. But now it’s different.

By Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Weapons
Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană gave during the launch of the NATO Science and Technology Organisation’s 2023-2043 Trends Report in Brussels on Wednesday. Photo credit: NATO news release

Will DIANA—NATO’s DARPA-style innovation hub—improve or degrade global stability?

By Marina Favaro, Ulrich Kühn, Neil C. Renic | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

Roundtable: Making nuclear injustice an agenda for change

By Franziska Stärk, Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow
camera-based remote monitoring

Remote Monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits

By Moritz Kütt, Ulrich Kühn, Dmitry Stefanovich | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control

Nuclear injustice: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows the staggering human cost of deterrence

By Franziska Stärk, Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The pathways of inadvertent escalation: Is a NATO-Russia war (now) possible?

By Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
Sigmund Freud

Deterrence and its discontents

By Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Introduction: Nuclear disarmament and arms control for the next decade

By Ulrich Kühn | Uncategorized

Europe’s nuclear woes: Mitigating the challenges of the next years

By Ulrich Kühn, Shatabhisha Shetty, Polina Sinovets | Uncategorized

Improve the nuclear test monitoring system

By Michael Schoeppner, Ulrich Kühn | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security