“I became an activist because I couldn’t reconcile the pride the two regional countries take in #nuclearweapons with the risks we live under… verification is the difference between myth and fact, war and peace — #verification must matter before missiles fly.” - Kashaf Sohail
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📣Call for Papers
Any plans for September? Join our #DVPW conference panel in Würzburg!
We invite theoretical/ empirical contributions on #knowledge production in #nuclear (dis)order formation and the role of knowledge in nuclear #policy.
🔗https://vespotec.rwth-aachen.de/news/#cfp-wuerzburg2026
🚀 Nuclear rules in orbit exist - but how do we verify them? A lone Russian satellite exposed the gap between treaties & trust. Raoul Cardellini Leipertz unpacks the space–nuclear nexus and why verification matters now more than ever.
Read here 👉 bit.ly/49jdkJI
#SpaceSecurity #NuclearVerification
" #Tritium is not a sole barrier to irreversible #disarmament, but it is a very consequential" - MD Arifur Rahman
👉 Learn more about tritium's challenge to disarmament #irreversibility in our newest "New Perspectives on #Nuclear #Verification" blog post!
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👏 New blog post out today: “Nuclear Verification in the South American Cone – The Case of ABACC.”
A deep dive into how Argentina and Brazil built one of the world’s most successful regional verification systems - and what it means for future non‑proliferation efforts. 🔍
🔗 bit.ly/4pBWdI0
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By Natalia Luers. ABACC, the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials, was created after Argentina and Brazil shifted from nuclear rivalry to cooperation, turning the...
By MD Arifur Rahman. Tritium is a radioactive material with a half-life span of just 12.3 years, which is usually used as a boosting element in nuclear weapons, allowing relatively smaller bombs to re...
By Kashaf Sohail. When we talk about “verification” in nuclear politics, most people picture inspectors counting warheads, satellites tracking fissile materials, or monitoring treaty compliance. But v...
By Raoul Cardellini Leipertz. Last spring, a lone Russian satellite drifting through an unexpected low Earth orbit set off alarms from Washington to Brussels. Was it an innocuous on-orbit experiment o...
Interdisciplinary Research on Nuclear Verification ⚛️ | collaboration of RWTH Aachen University, University of Duisburg-Essen, PRIF/TU Darmstadt and Forschungszentrum Jülich | sponsored by the 🇩🇪 Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
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Great energy in Vienna today as #VeSPoTec and #VCDNP brought experts together to discuss “Prospects for #Nuclear #Verification in Times of Uncertainty and Crisis.”
Insightful debates, fresh perspectives, and real momentum for future work 🔍🌍✨
🚨New blog post: "Compliance Conundrums and the Credibility of the IAEA". Sanaa Alvira explores the questions "What does a finding of non‑compliance signify? What actions should and should not be taken by the State?" Read here 👉 bit.ly/495kH7p #IAEA #safeguards #nuclear
VeSPoTec-ers love to travel, so getting to visit the IAEA archive in Vienna felt like a nerdy dream come true ✈️📚✨ Check out our "VeSPo-Blog-turned-travel-blog" here!
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A treasure of uncountable worth lays in Vienna (Austria): the archives of IAEA. It documents the history of IAEA and its activities in promoting the use of peaceful uses of nuclear technology and safe...
By Sanaa Alvira. In June 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors found Iran to be in non-compliance with its safeguards obligations for the first time in nearly two deca...
It was a truly a pleasure bringing together these important voices on nonproliferation. Thanks, @cntrarmscontrol.org for the nice report 🥰Until hopefully soon! - L.
