No. 339: Heightened Nuclear Risks and the Risk Reduction Agenda

Author(s): Névine Schepers
Editor(s): Fabien Merz
Series Editor(s): Névine Schepers, Fabien Merz
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 339
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2024

Nuclear risk reduction has emerged as a promising strategy to mitigate the risks posed by nuclear weapons in a security environment marked by increasing nuclear competition and threats. Concrete measures remain difficult to implement, however, given different understandings of risk, the interconnectedness of conventional and strategic risks, and the manipulation of risks as a conflict tool.

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