The Russian Federation and the USA are modernising their non-strategic nuclear arms for Europe. Both are blaming the respective other that they have been violating the INF-Treaty – the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which came into force 30 years ago. Is a new trend developing towards a larger role for nuclear weapons in European security? Is the Trump-Administration receding from the vision of a nuclear-free world? Which challenges and risks arise for those who are putting efforts into the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons? Which consequences can be drawn for the recent negotiations about a nuclear-weapons-convention (NWC)?
About these and other questions will the following panellists elaborate and discuss.
Discussion:
- Angela Kane
Vice President of the International Institute for Peace, IIP - Vienna
Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, New York
- Hans M. Kristensen
Federation of American Scientists, Washington, (via skype)
- Otfried Nassauer
Berlin Information-center for Transatlantic Security
- Susi Snyder
Pax Nederlande, Utrecht
- Igor Sutyagin
Royal United Services Institute, London
Venue: Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Festsaal
Favoritenstraße 15
1040 Vienna
Language: English
In Cooperation with:
Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
Berliner Informationszentrum für Transatlantische Sicherheit (BITS)
Internationaler Versöhnungsbund (IBW)
Diplomatische Akademie Wien (DA)
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
