On January 19, 2021, Dr. Vladimir A. Orlov, Director of the PIR Center, gave an interview to Security Index journal.
SECURITY INDEX: In your recent op-ed column, co-authored with Sergey Semenov and published by Kommersant Daily, you stated that “Russia and the United States, as major nuclear-weapo...
As one of its first security policy decisions, the Biden administration agreed to extend the New START Treaty for five years with no conditions. The New START Treaty represents one of the last remaining vestiges of international arms control architecture and one of the few areas of potentially prod...
Saudi Arabia is considered a nuclear “newcomer”. Although Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program dates back to the 1960s, the kingdom has demonstrated significant interest in nuclear energy only over the last decade. The Saudi interest in the peaceful use of nuclear energy is due to several reasons, among w...
"We are neighbours. Russia is part of Greater Europe. The European Union is a major player in the European space, but it is not the whole of Europe, n...
Shaping the next generation of experts is the main goal of the education and training system on nonproliferation, created and supported by PIR Center...
The recent PIR Center report, “Iran in the Regional and Global Perspective” offers a fresh twist on advice for negotiators as they continue to work on an agreement. As a compilation of articles by experts who met in Bangkok and Moscow in 2014 to explore the prerequisites of longer term solutions for...
The book “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy” by David Hoffman is a true documentary thriller focusing on the most difficult period of the 20th century. The international situation at that time is described as teetering on the brink of a nuclear world ...
22-06-22 E13 KVA TPNW Meeting Plan of Action.pdf The Action Plan adopted at the 1st Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) reflects specific steps and intentions of the Treaty's proponents on the implementation and universalization of TPNW in a complica...
22-06-23 E13 KVA TPNW Meeting Declaration.pdf 22-06-23 E13 KVA TPNW Meeting Declaration.pdf The first Meeting of States Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) adopted a Declaration, setting out basic ideas of TPNW supporters on nuclear weapons, the international env...
The first of July 2018 will mark the 50th anniversary of the opening for signature of the landmark Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). This treaty is the world’s most important multilaterally negotiated international treaty on global nuclear governance. Of its 193 States partie...
In October 2016 Russia responded forcefully to recent U.S. policies, choosing a very sensitive area – nuclear security and nuclear energy cooperation – for that response. Moscow suspended the Plutonium Disposition Agreement and the 2006 and 2010 Protocols to that document. It also suspended the Nucl...
The 2015 NPT Review Conference, which failed to approve a Final Document, has put into stark relief the key challenges facing the nuclear nonproliferation regime. These challenges fall under four main categories: ongoing difficulties with the implementation and universalization of the treaty, distur...