Remote Monitoring: Verifying Geographical Arms Limits

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Remote Monitoring: Verifying Geographical Arms Limits

Europe’s biggest security crisis of recent decades has brought back fear of nuclear use, nuclear war, and arms racing.

By Ulrich Kühn

Published on Jan 16, 2023

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

About the Author

Ulrich Kühn

Former Nonresident Scholar, Nuclear Policy Program

Ulrich Kühn was a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the head of the arms control and emerging technologies program at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.

Recent Work

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Preventing Escalation in the Baltics: A NATO Playbook
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Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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