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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is an important piece. We need to stop treating the environmental costs of mobilization, rearmament, and war as trivial.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 16/07/2026

A chronological list of the best nuclear Doomsday films, compiled by Bulletin senior fellow Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social, shows how the nuclear perspective unfolded from the earliest days of the atomic age to the present. See which 13 films made the cut on our site: buff.ly/CIxUEcs

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Btw: Auch Historiker*innen und Politikwissenschaftler*innen sind auf das #IFG angewiesen. Schon in seiner jetzigen Form gilt das IFG als schwächer als der Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in den USA. Eine derartige Verschärfung würde Forschung womöglich verunmöglichen. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Informationsfreiheitsgesetz: Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte nennt Koalitionspläne »undemokratisch«

Geplante Änderungen der Bundesregierung beim Informationsgesetz haben Kritik ausgelöst. Die Datenschutzbeauftragte warnt vor einer Abschaffung der Informationsfreiheit.

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nuclear Planning Group (NPG) public statement out. Those are rare. "NPG Ministers recalled that strategic nuclear forces of the Alliance remain the supreme guarantee of Allied security and underpin NATO's extended deterrence architecture." Notably, no explicit reference to US strategic forces. 1/3

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I would not be surprised if after all the talk about deterrence gaps in Europe and whatnot, we end up with more of everything: an uncredible French dissuasion avancée construct that nobody calls the bluff it is because of the magic words "ambiguïté stratégique" AND an expanded... 1/2

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Richard Gowan @richardgowan1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Don't always agree with @nuclearban.bsky.social but this is an absolutely key point.

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If this actually materializes, it would almost certainly come as a surprise to European allies. Ad hoc agreements on nuclear weapons without even informing them. They won’t like it but I doubt they will dare to say so. 1/2

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Thomas Fraise @thfraise.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

[Thread] The nuclear arms race is accelerating, with new START about to expire. Climate change is also accelerating, and so is environmental degradation. How do those two terrifying dynamics affect each other? Our recent article tackles this question. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Existential silos: The compartmentalization of the futures of environmental change and the nuclear threat

Nuclear weapons and environmental change are two existential threats to humanity. This article shows that current policy and academic discourse neglec…

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Mein Gastbeitrag für die ZEIT ist online. Er ordnet Trumps Rhetorik rund um neue Nukleartests ein, spielt mögliche Folgen durch und mahnt, dass die Erosion der Norm gegen Nukleartests eine europäische Antwort erfordert. Geschenk-Link: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

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New Start: Die gefährliche Rhetorik von Trumps Nukleartestdrohung

Im Februar endet mit New Start das letzte Rüstungsabkommen zwischen Russland und den USA. Doch Trump redet von Atomtests – und gefährdet damit zukünftige Verhandlungen.

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Latest Trump comments on nuclear testing from CBS suggest he's latched onto the zero-yield controversy; State Department compliance reports in 2021 accused Russia of conducting "experiments" that generated "nuclear yield" (not so for China) www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Climate change & nuclear weapons are often seen as twin threats to future generations. My new open access article shows that while both pose similar moral dilemmas, intergenerational nuclear injustice is harder to spot—and harder to fix. doi.org/10.1111/1758... 1/🧵

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Lydia Wachs @lydiawachs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Putin just announced that Russia is ready to comply with the quant. limits of #NewSTART for one year after its expiry www.kommersant.ru/doc/8058884?...

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Путин: РФ готова придерживаться ДСНВ в течение года после истечения его срока

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

„We have a land war on European continent. We are fully dependent on US. None of the EU members was ready to risk further escalation“. The way @sabineweyand.bsky.social explains EU-US-deal is exactly right. She explains EU‘s trade-offs & rationale — and doesn‘t put lipstick on a pig. (SZ-Dossier)

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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

So here it is, the text of the UK-Germany friendship treaty. Two points that struck me on security: - clear commitment to nuclear dialogue (European panic mode is real) - clear commitment to E3 (UK, Germany, France) and G7 - but no explicit mention of Weimar+ or E5 www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Federal Republic of Germany on friendship and bilateral cooperation

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

80 years ago this morning—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote Trinity test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.

A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks like a very large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge against a pitch dark sky. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion a few milliseconds later, showing an almost ghostly mushroom cloud with glowing tendrils rising from the ground above the very bright fireball.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion with the same 100-meter scale, this time at 60 seconds post-detonation, showing a very large and billowy mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion taken some minutes after the previous photograph and showing the ominous looking mushroom cloud at a distance, its top spreading out and merging with regular clouds.

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Whatever legitimacy was left in the European rhetoric of the "rules based order" (not to mention the law based order) has now probably gone down the drain. And that will come back to bite.🔽

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

On my way to #BISA2025 in Belfast Join us for our panel on the climate-nuclear nexus 👇 (Not in the program, but @rhyscrilley.bsky.social will be our discussant)

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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Honored to co-author the second in a series of articles in @washingtonpost.com about nuclear risks and challenges facing us. This one is about accidents and incidents that nearly triggered nuclear war, others that could potentially do so. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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Opinion | How nuclear war could start

Nuclear accidents are a fact of life for as long as these weapons exist.

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Frank Kuhn @frankkuhn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Strong indicator that there will be no “denuclearization.” 👇 “[T]he Trump administration wants the annual spending on the weapon activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration to increase from $19 billion this year to roughly $30 billion in the 2026 fiscal year, a rise of 58 percent.”

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Sharp Hike in Nuclear Arms Budget Sought as Science Funding Is Slashed

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today). The times they are a-changin’.

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Reagan was as mistaken about the usefulness of SDI as Trump and Hegseth will be about the "golden dome" But boy, the difference in basic rhetorical skills, intellectual ambition, and depth of arguments… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_H...

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Ronald Reagan - Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") Speech

YouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Nuclear bit starts at minute 23: Macron ready to discuss US-style nuclear sharing arrangements.

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Only just managed to read this in full, and as expected, it’s a great piece pulling together all the relevant literature. Give this a read! 👇

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Dieses Gespräch lässt einiges aus aber ein Aspekt macht mir echt graue Haare: Die Nonchalance, mit der wir Überlegungen über europäische (& als ‚schlechtere‘ Option deutsche) nukleare Aufrüstung anstellen, ohne dabei nur einmal die Kosten für das globale Nichtverbreitungsregime zu thematisieren.

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Rhys Crilley @rhyscrilley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hey #nukesky, there's still time to apply to the Atomic Anxiety in the New Nuclear Age Fellows Scheme! The application is super short, so if you know any early career researchers, policymakers, or practitioners who might be interested then please share widely! atomicanxiety.com/2024/11/14/2...

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2025 Fellows Scheme Applications Now Open!

Are you interested in researching and having impact in nuclear arms control and disarmament? Do you want to join a community of scholars and practitioners exploring innovative ideas in the field of…

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Excited to be part of a new research project, “The Bureaucratic Politics of Nuclear Alliance Management”, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Sciences Po Paris, with my own IFSH, the University of Denver, and NORSAR. Learn more here: ifsh.de/en/news-deta... #NukeSky 1/2

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IFSH Joins International Research Project on the Bureaucratic Politics of Nuclear Alliance Management

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Oliver Meier @olivermeier.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Must-read @nytimes.com article by William Langewiesche on nuclear escalation risks: "History shows that deterrence often fails and that countries can maneuver themselves into corners where they have no choice but to enter into wars they cannot win, wars of assured self-destruction." is.gd/MnODDO

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The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times

The devastating outcome of the 1983 game reveals that nuclear escalation inevitably spirals out of control.

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

On my way to #TPNW2MSP in NYC 🗽 Excited to dive into discussions on nukes, intergenerational justice, or just some conference chatter over coffee/lunch. Feel free to reach out!

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Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Once you factor in climate-related costs, such as nuclear winter, many arguments supporting just deterrence simply collapse... This article adds an interesting perspective to recent debates on nuclear ethics (--> see Nye, Sagan, Weiner & Rohlfing in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...).

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