The workshop “Nuclear Ukraine: Russian rhetoric and security consequences” that was held in Belgium, Brussels at Station Europe on May 18, 2022 was devoted to the topics of nuclear weapons control, the war in Ukraine and global nuclear orders.
OdCNP is honored and pleased to present the book "Ukraine’s Nuclear History. A Non-proliferation Perspective", the most comprehensive research on Ukraine's contribution to the Soviet Atomic Project. It was written by a team of Ukrainian experts in one book: the role of Ukraine in the nuclear program of the USSR, missiles and dreams of nuclear deterrence vs. civil nuclear energy cooperation, published by Springer - German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science. The event took place on May 18, 2022 with the support from Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and the Ukrainian Civil Society Hub, Brussels, Belgium.
On May 16-17, 2022 Polina Sinovets and Iryna Maksymenko participated in the EU Ad Hoc Seminar of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium "War in Ukraine: The impact on the international security architecture: non-proliferation, disarmament, arms control, export controls".
The main event of winter 2022 for OdCNP has finished recently - II International Winter School “Arms Control and Nonproliferation: From Basic to Advanced”. The event took place on February 17-19 with the support from Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and U.S. Department of State.
Atomic Reporters, together with the Odessa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP), and in cooperation with the Swedish Radiation Authority (SSM), conducted an online discussion – Decoding the Budapest Memorandum: The 1994 Accord, Ukraine’s Non-Proliferation Path, and Current Tensions on Thursday, 27 January 2022.
On October 15-16, 2021 Odessa Center for Nonproliferation conducted the workshop and the roundtable "Arms Control and Europe: New Challenges and Prospects for Strategic Stability".
XI International Summer School “Arms Control and Nonproliferation: Global and Regional trends 2021” took place last August with the support from U.S. Department of State, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on the basis of OdCNP. The main aim of this event – to increase the awareness amongst young nonproliferation experts across Europe and the Middle East on the current trends in the field of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons policy, safety and security, disarmament, and nonproliferation.