Nuclear war risk
Outlawing Nuclear Weapons as the Start of Nuclear Disarmament, 2019, a position paper of the German Commission for Justice and Peace.
Unintended nuclear war
Bläsius, Siekmann: Computer-aided Early Warning and Decision-making Systems, 2021 (pdf, 37 pages)
Bläsius, Siekmann: Unintended Nuclear War, Journal “Künstliche Intelligenz”, 2021, Online Version
Bläsius, Siekmann: AI in early warning systems for nuclear threats, 2021 (pdf, 11 pages)
Schierhorn: False alarms, accidents and near-disasters involving nuclear weapons, 2021, long version (140 pages), short version (7 pages), 4-pages-version
Climate change and nuclear war risk
- Scheffran: Climate Change, Nuclear Risks and Nuclear Disarmament – from Security Threats to Sustainable Peace. Hamburg: World Future Council, 2011, https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WFC_2009_Climate_Change_Nuclear_Risks_and_Nuclear_Disarmament.pdf
- Scheffran, Burroughs, Leidreiter, van Riet, Ware: The Climate-Nuclear Nexus: Exploring the linkages between climate change and nuclear threats. World Future Council. Hamburg: World Future Council, 2015/2016, https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/de/climate-nuclear-nexus-publikation
- Scheffran: The entwined Cold War roots of missile defense and climate geoengineering. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 75(5), S. 222-228, 2019
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- Scheffran: Verification and security of transformation to a nuclear-weapon-free world: the framework of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Special Issue, Global Change, Peace & Security 30(2): 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781158.2018.1472565. Also published in: Camilleri JA, Hamel-Green M, Yoshida F (Eds.) The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty. A New Path to Nuclear Disarmament, 2019. Chapter 10, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-2017-Nuclear-Ban-Treaty-A-New-Path-to-Nuclear-Disarmament-1st-Edition/Camilleri-Hamel-Green-Yoshida/p/book/9781138393547, 2018
- Datan, Scheffran: The Treaty Is Out of the Bottle: The Power and Logic of Nuclear Disarmament. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (free online) https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25751654.2019.1584942, 2019
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