How to Deal with Nuclear Threats for Europe
08.10.2025 - 10.10.2025
With Russia’s ongoing nuclear saber-rattling, growing arsenals in China and North Korea, and modernization of atomic weapons programs underway among larger and smaller nuclear powers, the danger of nuclear threats is once again at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Calls for credible deterrence in Europe are growing louder, as are demands for increased efforts to reduce nuclear risk. At the same time, initiatives continue to work towards complete nuclear disarmament. So, what is the best way to address the growing nuclear threat in Europe?
This conference strictly follows the Chatham House rule – meaning that it is an off-camera/record and no personalized notetaking event. The working language is English. If required, simultaneous German-English translation will be provided for the plenary discussions.
Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director, Protestant Academy Loccum
Ulrich KÜHN, Head, “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Hamburg
Gaukhar MUKHATZHANOVA, Director of the International Organizations and Non-Proliferation Program and Japan Chair for a World without Nuclear Weapons, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), Vienna*
John MECKLIN, Editor-in-Chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Washington D.C.
Andrey BAKLITSKIY, Senior Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, UNIDIR (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research), Geneva**
Tong ZHAO, Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Washington D.C./Beijing
Teymouraz GORJESTANI, Head of the Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Department, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Paris*
Eirini LEMOS-MANIATI, Head, Arms Control, Disarmament, and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Nonproliferation Centre (ACDC), HQ NATO, Brussels
Tom McKANE, Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and former Director General for Strategy and Security Policy in the UK Ministry of Defence, London
Ian ANTHONY, Department for Defence Analysis, Strategy and Policy Section at FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) and Member of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Stockholm
Nina BERNARDING, Co-Founder and Co-Director at Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, Berlin
Heinrich BRAUSS, Lieutenant General ret., former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning and Senior Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin*
Mai Phan DUNG, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations, Geneva*
Tytti ERÄSTÖ, Senior Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Program, SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Solna
Oliver MEIER, Policy & Research Director, European Leadership Network, Berlin/London
Alice SALTINI, Non-Resident Expert on Artificial Intelligence, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Institute for Technology and Security, Italy
Paul VAN HOOFT, Research Leader, Defence and Security, RAND Europe, The Hague**
Moritz KÜTT, Associate Professor at the University of Hamburg’s Department of Physics, Head at Hamburg Nuclear Disarmament Laboratory, and Member of the TPNW’s Scientific Advisory Group, Hamburg*
Stephan KLEMENT, Special Envoy Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Special Adviser on Iran Nuclear Issues, EEAS, Brussels
Mailys MANGIN, Senior Researcher, Centre Interdisciplinaire Sur Les Enjeux Stratégiques (CIENS), Paris
Farzan SABET, Managing Researcher of the Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva
Jana BALDUS, Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network (ELN) and Associated Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), London
Carmen WUNDERLICH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at University of Duisburg-Essen and Research Fellow at the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), Frankfurt/Essen
Etienne MARCUZ, Associate Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris
Lydia Theresa WACHS, Department of Economic & International Relations, Stockholm University*
Giacomo Persi PAOLI, Head of the Security and Technology Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva*
Michael HASPEL, Research Fellow, Martin-Luther Institute and Professor for Systematic Theology at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Thomas HAJNOCZI, Advisor to Mayors for Peace, Board Member of BASIC and Former Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Austrian Foreign Office, Vienna
François HEISBOURG, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris**
Lauren SUKIN, John G. Winant Associate Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford
Artur KACPRZYK, Senior Analyst, International Security Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Warsaw
Iryna MAKSYMENKO, Senior Researcher at the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP), Odesa
Matthias MADER, Visiting Professor of International Political Studies, University Witten/Herdecke
Alexander SORG, Eisenhower Fellow, NATO Defense College, Rom
Marcello CAVALCASELLE, Head, Office for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rom*
Marian LOSSE, Board Member, ICAN Germany (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), Berlin
Klaus DE RIJK, Senior Strategic Advisor, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
Susanne RIEGRAF, Deputy Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, Foreign Ministry, Berlin**
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