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Cyber Program Lead @a_pytlak was recently interviewed by @walberque on @IISS_org's The Arms Control Poseur to discuss emerging #cyber threats and the challenges for better global cyber governance. iiss.org/podcasts/arms-…
Yesterday, the US State Department formally accused #Russia of using chemical weapons (CW) against Ukraine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. It also said Russia had used riot control agents as a method of warfare in #Ukraine. state.gov/imposing-new-m… 🧵/1
@CNN reports that the US conclusion tallies with testimony from Ukrainian troops who say they have faced increased encounters with gas and other irritant chemicals on parts of their frontline with Russia’s forces in recent months. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/eur… /3
Excellent thread on the possible use of chemical agents by Russia in Ukraine. Highly problematic development as it is another sign of Russia moving away from arms control obligations.
Excellent thread on the possible use of chemical agents by Russia in Ukraine. Highly problematic development as it is another sign of Russia moving away from arms control obligations.
Macron: “France has always rejected the use of tactical nuclear weapons…” Always?
Macron: “France has always rejected the use of tactical nuclear weapons…” Always? https://t.co/TWxETQYETs
Significant new US sanctions against Russia out today. Targets include Russian Arctic LNG-2 project; CBW facilities; PRC companies supplying hi-tech; evaders from Turkiye, Kyrgyz, and Malaysia; a Hong Kong firm sending hi-tech to Russia; & more. 1/2 @ACGeoEcon…
@ThrustWR The irony ofcourse is that Russia would probably invest into BMD penetration regardless of short term (ie 1-5 years) US choices. (One of my favourite graphics from 10 years ago, used by Sarmat advocate)
Looking forward to reading this:
GUR assessment of Russian missile production and stockpile: -40 Tsirkon in service and up to 10 produced per month -400 Oniks / Oniks-M and up to 10 produced per month -270 Kalibr and 30-40 produced per month -45 Kh-65 and 1-3 produced per month armyinform.com.ua/2024/05/01/gur…
GUR assessment of Russian missile production and stockpile: -40 Tsirkon in service and up to 10 produced per month -400 Oniks / Oniks-M and up to 10 produced per month -270 Kalibr and 30-40 produced per month -45 Kh-65 and 1-3 produced per month armyinform.com.ua/2024/05/01/gur…
I visited @MaxwellSU to speak and engage students, faculty, and alumni on @NATO and the role of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Thank you for hosting this open dialogue on U.S. efforts aimed to strengthen international security. state.gov/under-secretar…
I visited @MaxwellSU to speak and engage students, faculty, and alumni on @NATO and the role of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Thank you for hosting this open dialogue on U.S. efforts aimed to strengthen international security. state.gov/under-secretar…
Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺�.. @bctallis
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Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck
58K Followers 647 Following Foreign policy analyst and strategist. Columnist NZZ. Ex GMF Berlin, Washington; Carnegie, Elcano Brussels; RFERL Prague, PhD history
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31K Followers 2K Following Senior Research Fellow @FIIA_fi. PhD @VUBrussel & Belgian Royal Military Academy. Former @NATO official 2014-2020. Views my own.
Kristi Raik @KristiRaik
34K Followers 2K Following Deputy Director @ICDS_Tallinn, Adjunct Professor @UniTurku. Passionate about international politics and security, feeling home in Estonia, Finland and at sea.
Mart Kuldkepp @martku.. @KuldkeppMart
18K Followers 2K Following Professor of Estonian and Nordic History @UCL | Regular contributing writer @postimees | Moral clarity enjoyer. Own views only.
Gustav C. Gressel @GresselGustav
42K Followers 2K Following Senior policy fellow @ECFRWiderEurope @ECFR, PhD, specialised on security, defence, military | NATO, EU, Eastern Europe
Hans Kristensen @nukestrat
50K Followers 684 Following Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, writing Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
Sergey Radchenko @DrRadchenko
69K Followers 3K Following Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor @KissingerCenter @SAISHopkins.
Georg ‘Tenured Mave.. @gloefflmann
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Pavel Podvig @russianforces
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Heather Williams @heatherwilly
14K Followers 1K Following Director, Project on Nuclear Issues & Senior Fellow, Intl Security, CSIS @csisponi | Assoc Fellow, Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School @ManagingtheAtom
Mattia Nelles @mattia_n
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Dr. Jeffrey Lewis @ArmsControlWonk
107K Followers 2K Following Professor at @MIIS, staff at @JamesMartinCNS, host of the @ACWpodcast & member of @StateDept Int’l Security Advisory Board. All opinions are my own.
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Steven Pifer @steven_pifer
39K Followers 914 Following Affiliated with Stanford's CISAC & Brookings. Retired Foreign Service officer; former US ambassador to Ukraine. Interests include nukes, Europe & mountains.
Farah Dakhlallah @NATOpress
155K Followers 2K Following Official Twitter account of the @NATO Spokesperson, Farah Dakhlallah. RT/follow doesn't mean endorsement. #WeAreNATO
Vulture @VultWarTutor
2 Followers 21 Following “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain
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Allison Pytlak @a_pytlak
3K Followers 2K Following Cyber Program Lead @StimsonCenter. Former Disarm Manager @RCW_ @WILPF. Recovered New Yorker. Runner, dancer, karaoke legend✌️✨️ Views my own.
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5 Followers 18 Following The fog of war is a real phenomenon, but the internet is helping us overcome it ⚔️️
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Farzad Seifikaran @FSeifikaran
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Cenk Gökberk @CGokberk
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Joseph Anderson @CyDroneWarJoe
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Kimberly Peh @kimberly_peh
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Grace Parker @GPDefStrategy
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Marlon Seawatch @mseawatchnav
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카멜리아 @iwtutcte
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Margaret Lin @margklinn
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James Slice @W90LS2LDnk
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574 Followers 954 Following Postdoc @unidue @VeSPoTec | Sr Research Associate @WMDfreeME | PhD @uniGoettingen & @GIGA_Institute | Alma Mater @unb_oficial #Nuclear 🇧🇷🇩🇪
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Tobias Schneider @miltechtobias
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Florian Müller @DefTechFlorian
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jumpei ishimaru @IshimaruJu71422
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Jarmo Viinanen @Amb_Viinanen
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Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge
123K Followers 887 Following Security & foreign policy | Ex-🇦🇫🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇼🇬🇧🇺🇸 | Sr Fellow @cepa | Capital 🇩🇪 40u40 | ☕️ https://t.co/bJJwJ9yq8b | Don’t just get mad, get busy
Minna Ålander 🌻 @minna_alander
55K Followers 2K Following Research Fella @FIIA_fi & @cepa fellow. Nordic security & defence, 🇫🇮&🇩🇪 foreign & sec pol. Plot twist: not from Åland. Rants my own. 📸©️ Sasa Strainovic
Benjamin Tallis 🇺�.. @bctallis
38K Followers 7K Following International Politics & Security | #NeoIdealism | Democratic #GrandStrategy | #Zeitenwende |🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #BerlinsideOut Pod |T=personal. RT≠agree.
Edward Hunter Christi.. @EHunterChristie
31K Followers 2K Following Senior Research Fellow @FIIA_fi. PhD @VUBrussel & Belgian Royal Military Academy. Former @NATO official 2014-2020. Views my own.
Mart Kuldkepp @martku.. @KuldkeppMart
18K Followers 2K Following Professor of Estonian and Nordic History @UCL | Regular contributing writer @postimees | Moral clarity enjoyer. Own views only.
Gustav C. Gressel @GresselGustav
42K Followers 2K Following Senior policy fellow @ECFRWiderEurope @ECFR, PhD, specialised on security, defence, military | NATO, EU, Eastern Europe
Hans Kristensen @nukestrat
50K Followers 684 Following Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, writing Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
Sergey Radchenko @DrRadchenko
69K Followers 3K Following Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor @KissingerCenter @SAISHopkins.
Henri Vanhanen @HenriVanhanen
14K Followers 380 Following Author. Connoisseur of foreign and security policy.
Pavel Podvig @russianforces
46K Followers 713 Following Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here. All coordinates are at https://t.co/QgmWsijsuK
Heather Williams @heatherwilly
14K Followers 1K Following Director, Project on Nuclear Issues & Senior Fellow, Intl Security, CSIS @csisponi | Assoc Fellow, Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School @ManagingtheAtom
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis @ArmsControlWonk
107K Followers 2K Following Professor at @MIIS, staff at @JamesMartinCNS, host of the @ACWpodcast & member of @StateDept Int’l Security Advisory Board. All opinions are my own.
François Heisbourg @FHeisbourg
38K Followers 1K Following Senior advisor for Europe, IISS, conseiller spécial/special adviser FRS
Steven Pifer @steven_pifer
39K Followers 914 Following Affiliated with Stanford's CISAC & Brookings. Retired Foreign Service officer; former US ambassador to Ukraine. Interests include nukes, Europe & mountains.
Farah Dakhlallah @NATOpress
155K Followers 2K Following Official Twitter account of the @NATO Spokesperson, Farah Dakhlallah. RT/follow doesn't mean endorsement. #WeAreNATO
Jack Watling @Jack_Watling
54K Followers 1K Following Senior Research Fellow - Land Warfare, Military Sciences, @RUSI_org; Global Fellow, @kennaninstitute, @TheWilsonCenter; PhD History.
Christian Mölling @Ce_Moll
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd
81K Followers 1K Following Nuclear policy, Asia, missiles, & space. Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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Rose Gottemoeller @Gottemoeller
23K Followers 219 Following Steven C. Házy Lecturer @FSIStanford @StanfordCISAC. Research Fellow @HooverInst. Former @NATO Deputy Secretary General.
Colby Badhwar 🇨�.. @ColbyBadhwar
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Ellie Cook @ellliecoook
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Margaret Lin @margklinn
18 Followers 44 Following Former intern @southeastasiadc, @asg. Current intern @IISS_org Asia. Interested in export control/sanction compliance, maritime affairs in the Asia-Pacific.
Leonardo Bandarra @leocbandarra
574 Followers 954 Following Postdoc @unidue @VeSPoTec | Sr Research Associate @WMDfreeME | PhD @uniGoettingen & @GIGA_Institute | Alma Mater @unb_oficial #Nuclear 🇧🇷🇩🇪
Jovanni Tyler @TylerJovan64730
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Mike Black @MikeBlack114
9K Followers 639 Following Former USAF aircraft/munitions maintenance officer, current basically doing the same thing but not wearing camo pajamas to work Views are mine, not AF/DoD/etc
Russian Mission Vienn.. @mission_rf
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Dept.of Arms Control,.. @CHNMFA_DAC
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678 Followers 574 Following Political and Security Risk Analyst. EU Security Policy Fellow at @DelorsBerlin. Specialised in: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and the South Caucasus
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Konrad Schuller @SchullerKonrad
9K Followers 4K Following And because you not always can keep your eyes shut, there comes the trouble. (Joseph Conrad). Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Ukraine.
IFRI @IFRI_
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Paul Fraioli @pfraioli
300 Followers 642 Following Senior Fellow and Editor of Strategic Comments @IISS_org; writing a book on nuclear risk (2025)
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151 Followers 224 Following Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs of China and Deputy Permanent Representative to Geneva
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brianweeden @brianweeden
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Scott Tilley 🇺🇦 @coastal8049
22K Followers 408 Following The most important senses are the ones you build to make you aware of the invisible energy surrounding us all. NOTE: time is always UTC here.
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Dr Elizabeth Buchanan @BuchananLiz
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Ondrej Ditrych @oditrych
2K Followers 658 Following Senior Analyst @EU_ISS #Russia Eastern Neighbourhood 🇪🇺
@walberque Being a Schedule 3 chemical in the Chemical Weapons Convention, chloropicrin als had to be declared, and that is still the case for new production since 1993.
Great to see a too rare (on social media) courteous debate between @zhaot2005 and @Matt_Costlow about US-China nuclear issues triggered by Tong’s recent excellent article. 👍 foreignaffairs.com/china/real-mot…
Immediate click. For those of you who do not know, Tong Zhao is a go to resource in understanding Chinese government thinking on nuclear issues.
Excited to share thoughts w/ @ForeignAffairs on the underlying drivers of China's nuclear expansion, the implications for US-China security & overall relations, and essential measures needed to address core issues in nuclear and broader bilateral ties. 1/2 foreignaffairs.com/china/real-mot…
Cyber Program Lead @a_pytlak was recently interviewed by @walberque on @IISS_org's The Arms Control Poseur to discuss emerging #cyber threats and the challenges for better global cyber governance. iiss.org/podcasts/arms-…
...however, the Russian leadership might become increasingly desperate for a breakthrough, and chemical weapons might beckon." We appear to now have reached that point. /END
In @washingtonpost 2 years ago, I concluded: "As long as Russia retains considerable conventional capacity to wage war in Ukraine, its cost-benefit analysis might favor chemical restraint. Should the progress of its military campaign continue to be slow and frustrating,... /11
If the US allegations are accurate, this would suggest Russia sees CW as weapons with some tactical utility on the battlefield Chloropicrin, which Russia is accused of using, was widely used as CW agent in World War I, but is no longer authorized for military use, per @CNN /10
First problem: #Russia argues that it doesn't have any CW to begin with, the file is formally closed @OPCW: x.com/hannanotte/sta… Other procedural problems abound, so not sure what more the US can do at this point other than to impose sanctions, as it just did. /9
What will happen, should #Russia use #ChemicalWeapons (CW) in #Ukraine as it escalates in the Donbas? Russia’s tactics @OPCW & UNSC over CW use in #Syria & the Navalny poisoning offer good indications. Bottom line: Attribution/accountability will be a very hard lift Thread /1
These past precedents show that pursuing attribution/accountability for CW use @OPCW or UN - and not just making a unilateral determination and imposing unilateral sanctions, as the US just did - will be a tall order. /8
My argument was based on following Russia's handling of CW use by its ally Assad in #Syria, of the Skripal and @navalny poisonings & Russia's political and procedural navigation @OPCW for years. Here some useful context: x.com/hannanotte/sta… and carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/860… /7
At the time, I argued in @washingtonpost that deterring any Russian CW use in Ukraine would be tall order, since neither the threat of economic sanctions, nor of diplomatic fallout or international opprobrium, would likely suffice to deter Russia /6 washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
At that time, Russia itself formally & frequently accused Ukraine of preparing to stage "chemical provocations" mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol… Ukraine, US, UK, EU refuted Russian allegations and @OPCW has since compiled a long dossier of states parties' correspondence on the matter /5
Now, the issue is not new: Early into the full-scale invasion, there were concerns Russia might use CW in Ukraine - for instance, against the Azovstal in besieged #Mariupol, remember? nytimes.com/2022/05/04/sci… /4
@CNN reports that the US conclusion tallies with testimony from Ukrainian troops who say they have faced increased encounters with gas and other irritant chemicals on parts of their frontline with Russia’s forces in recent months. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/eur… /3
The US statement says that "the use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident, and is probably driven by Russian forces’ desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield”. /2
Yesterday, the US State Department formally accused #Russia of using chemical weapons (CW) against Ukraine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. It also said Russia had used riot control agents as a method of warfare in #Ukraine. state.gov/imposing-new-m… 🧵/1
Excellent thread on the possible use of chemical agents by Russia in Ukraine. Highly problematic development as it is another sign of Russia moving away from arms control obligations.
Yesterday, the US State Department formally accused #Russia of using chemical weapons (CW) against Ukraine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. It also said Russia had used riot control agents as a method of warfare in #Ukraine. state.gov/imposing-new-m… 🧵/1
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