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2024

08.05. Nuclear War: Too much information, book review of “Nuclear War. A Scenario”. IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

23.02. Ode to Gaza. IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

22.01 Nuclear deterrence is the existential threat, not the nuclear ban treaty, with Ivana Nikolíc Hughes, Ira Helfand, Mays Smithwick, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

2020

02.10 New START: Arms Control or Arms Racing? IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

16.07. What’s up at NATO? IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2018

15.02. The new arms race: A more dangerous world? Quadriga Talk show, Deutsche Welle

2016

03.11. Under Pressure – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

15.05. Divergence and consensus at the OEWG  – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2015

18.11. The Conflict over Ukraine – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

08.10. Time for Nuclear Sharing to End – Open Democracy

25.05. Outcome? What Outcome? – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

19.05. All that glitters is not gold – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

04.02. How to get out of the Nuclear Swamp – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

19.01. The Need for International Law – Open Democracy

2014

11.12. Their Weapons Possess Them – In-Depth-News, also in Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish and Urdu

09.04. Commerzbank: The Bomb at your Side – Oximity

2013

26.10. Nuclear Exits – out of the dark, into the light – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

26.09. Interview on Voice of Russia (transcription errors, listen to podcast)

24.08. Achieving Change, paper given to Framework Forum Round Table, Geneva (PDF)

29.05. The Way to Villingen – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

15.04. Just sign the damn thing! – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

12.03. These things were sent to test us – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

27.02. I CAN get rid of nuclear weapons – In Depth News

19.02. Looking for the tipping point – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2012

17.12. Pushing the States to the Negotiating Table – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

04.11 Destroyed Islands – 50th anniversary of last atmospheric nuclear test “Tightrope” allvoices.com

28.10 Ecocide – a catastrophic consequence of nuclear weapons – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

03.10 Steadfast Noon – Nuclear Sharing in NATO – Abolition 2000 Europe Blog

30.09 Deported Anti-Nuclear Activists Write Letter to Indian People – allvoices.com

29.09 Dirt Cheap: Thirty Years On – allvoices.com

29.09 Think Big: Making Peace with the Cookie Monster – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

02.09 The Sad Legacy of Nuclear Testing – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

19.06. Middle East should be disarmed, not armed – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

08.05. Building a Security Framework for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2011

27.10 Free the World from the Nuclear Chain – In Depth News, also in Farsi, Korean, Spanish and Turkish

11.09 (with Karin Wurzbacher) Chapter on Germany in Costs, Risks and Myths of Nuclear Power, Reaching Critical Will

05.05 The Placebo Effect – US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

21.03 The Nuclear Chain – Splitting Atoms, Hairs and Personalities – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

13.03 Nuclear power – “basta”! – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

18.01 On Worms and Firewalls – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2010

01.11. Global Zero Now. ICC No to NATO

28.09 Aliens, Cyberwar and other curiosities – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

28.08 The Bigger Picture – Nuclear Abolition Blog

25.04 Cutting the Gordian Knot – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

06.02 “People who have visions should go to see their doctor” – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2009

01.10 The Truth about Qom – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

11.06 Nuclear Posture Review – IPPNW Peace and Health Blog

2007

19.04 Compliance with NPT Article VI: The way ahead for the EU to pursue nuclear disarmament, Speech in European Parliament

2004

08.05 Two sides of the Same Coin – Speech (PDF), Nuclear Congress, Berlin

2000

June-August Reaching the Borders of Diplomacy, International Peace Update, WILPF, Vol 65 No 3

1999

19.01. Preventing Nuclear Confrontation. A Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in Central and Eastern Europe, Speech to the Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament, European Parliament