Pavel Podvig

Director
Russian Nuclear Forces Project

Phone: +41 22 917 1759 (landline) or +1 650 924 1204 (voice mail)

E-mail: podvig@russianforces.org

Telegram: @russianforces

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Personal info

CV (March 2024)

High resolution photos: Pavel Podvig (2022) or Pavel Podvig (2022 Large)

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Projects:

Russian strategic nuclear forces

Fissile material. A blog of the International Panel on Fissile Materials

Selected publications:

Pavel Podvig, "Freeze and Verify: Ending Fissile Material Production on the Korean Peninsula" (The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, September 2020)...

Pavel Podvig, "Nuclear Weapons in Europe after the INF Treaty," Deep Cuts Issue Brief #10, June 2020...

Pavel Podvig and Ryan Snyder, Watch them go: Simplifying the elimination of fissile materials and nuclear weapons. UNIDIR, 2019

Pavel Podvig, "Who lost the INF Treaty?", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 26 October 2018...

Pavel Podvig, Ryan Snyder, and Wilfred Wan. "Evidence of Absence: Verifying the Removal of Nuclear Weapons." UNIDIR, 2018

Pavel Podvig, Joseph Rodgers, Deferred verification: Verifiable Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks, UNIDIR, 2017

"The Use of Highly-Enriched Uranium as Fuel in Russia," Pavel Podvig, editor, with contributions by Nikolay Arkhangelskiy, Anatoli Diakov, Anton Khlopkov, Dmitry Konukhov, Dmitry Kovchegin, Eugene Miasnikov, Report of the International Panel on Fissile Material, September 2017

Pavel Podvig and Javier Serrat, "Lock them Up: Zero-deployed Non-strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe," UNIDIR, 2017

Pavel Podvig. Review of Kelleher, Catherine McArdle; Dombrowski, Peter, eds., Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. January, 2017.

Pavel Podvig, "Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty: Definitions, Verification, and Scope," UNIDIR, 2016

Pavel Podvig, "Unexpected dangers," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 7 October 2013

Pavel Podvig, "The myth of strategic stability," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online, 31 October 2012

Pavel Podvig, Global Nuclear Security: Building Greater Accountability and Cooperation, November 2011, United Nations

Pavel Podvig, "Consolidating fissile materials in Russia's nuclear complex", Research Report No. 7, International Panel on Fissile Materials, May 2009

Pavel Podvig, "What if North Korea were the only nuclear weapon state?", The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online, May 27, 2009

Pavel Podvig, "The fallacy of the Megatons to Megawatts program", The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online, July 23, 2008

Pavel Podvig, "The Window of Vulnerability That Wasn't: Soviet Military Buildup in the 1970s--A Research Note", International Security, Summer 2008, Vol. 33, No. 1: 118-138

Pavel Podvig, "Reducing the Risk of an Accidental Launch", Science and Global Security, vol. 14:75-115, 2006