Martin B. Kalinowski
@peacescience.bsky.social
Freelance nuclear scientist for disarmament and non-proliferation verification; former head of scientific methods at CTBTO and professor for science and peace research at University Hamburg.
Founder of Peace Science Collaboration https://peacescience.net
Founder of Peace Science Collaboration https://peacescience.net
Pinned
16 papers presented in an online booklet review the tremendous achievements made since the CTBTO started its operation. World-leading authors provide a comprehensive description of the state of the art of their field of science and technologies for CTBT verification.
www.ctbto.org/sites/defaul...
www.ctbto.org/sites/defaul...
Helion is the first private fusion energy startup to use deuterium-tritium fuel. Their 7th generation Polaris prototype set new fusion industry benchmark becoming the first privately developed fusion energy machine to demonstrate deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion.
www.helionenergy.com/articles/hel...
www.helionenergy.com/articles/hel...
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Helion is the first private fusion energy startup to use deuterium-tritium fuel. Their 7th generation Polaris prototype set new fusion industry benchmark becoming the first privately developed fusion energy machine to demonstrate deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion.
www.helionenergy.com/articles/hel...
www.helionenergy.com/articles/hel...
Tritium production is a key bottleneck for making nuclear fusion power generation a reality. Here is important progress under preparation:
“Moving breeding blanket technology from theory to real-world application is crucial in realizing a path to fusion energy“
www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-an...
“Moving breeding blanket technology from theory to real-world application is crucial in realizing a path to fusion energy“
www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-an...
January 30, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Tritium production is a key bottleneck for making nuclear fusion power generation a reality. Here is important progress under preparation:
“Moving breeding blanket technology from theory to real-world application is crucial in realizing a path to fusion energy“
www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-an...
“Moving breeding blanket technology from theory to real-world application is crucial in realizing a path to fusion energy“
www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-an...
Great to see that my book on "International Control of Tritium for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament" is gaining fresh interest again. The topic discussed in this blog post is just one example for this renewed interest.
peacescience.net/2026/01/28/r...
peacescience.net/2026/01/28/r...
January 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Great to see that my book on "International Control of Tritium for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament" is gaining fresh interest again. The topic discussed in this blog post is just one example for this renewed interest.
peacescience.net/2026/01/28/r...
peacescience.net/2026/01/28/r...
What does it mean for job seekers that the UN is currently facing challenges? What are future trends in human resources at international organisations?
After strong expansion of UN’s workforce and its subsequent stabilisation, a new phase is evolving.
peacescience.net/2026/01/11/u...
After strong expansion of UN’s workforce and its subsequent stabilisation, a new phase is evolving.
peacescience.net/2026/01/11/u...
January 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
What does it mean for job seekers that the UN is currently facing challenges? What are future trends in human resources at international organisations?
After strong expansion of UN’s workforce and its subsequent stabilisation, a new phase is evolving.
peacescience.net/2026/01/11/u...
After strong expansion of UN’s workforce and its subsequent stabilisation, a new phase is evolving.
peacescience.net/2026/01/11/u...
We proudly present that the homepage of Peace Science Collaboration went live. Welcome to explore peacescience.net
January 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
We proudly present that the homepage of Peace Science Collaboration went live. Welcome to explore peacescience.net
Call for Application: African Atomic Policy Lab (AAPL), a 7-month program for the next generation of African nuclear policy experts and leadership in global policy debates. Organized by ISYP Africa Project. Apply by 20 January: isyp.org/african-atom...
Our support: peacescience.net/2026/01/05/c...
Our support: peacescience.net/2026/01/05/c...
African Atomic Policy Lab (AAPL)
The African Atomic Policy Lab (AAPL) is a 7-month comprehensive virtual program designed to develop the next generation of African nuclear policy experts and amplify African leadership in global nu…
isyp.org
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Call for Application: African Atomic Policy Lab (AAPL), a 7-month program for the next generation of African nuclear policy experts and leadership in global policy debates. Organized by ISYP Africa Project. Apply by 20 January: isyp.org/african-atom...
Our support: peacescience.net/2026/01/05/c...
Our support: peacescience.net/2026/01/05/c...
Excited to share my research highlights for 2025! The PAGEOPH Topical Issue on Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and Verification (doi.org/10.1007/s000...) has most of my papers. Check out the personalised summary of my Springer Nature publications & impact in 2025: yir.sn.pub/26Agis #SNAuthors #YiR2025
Year in research 2025
Explore a personalised summary of your research's reach and impact in 2025 and share highlights with friends and colleagues.
yir.sn.pub
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Excited to share my research highlights for 2025! The PAGEOPH Topical Issue on Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and Verification (doi.org/10.1007/s000...) has most of my papers. Check out the personalised summary of my Springer Nature publications & impact in 2025: yir.sn.pub/26Agis #SNAuthors #YiR2025
Hague Appeal for Future Generations:
Action now to secure Peace and protect the Future
The Hague and New York: United Nations Day, October 24, 2025
www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/u...
Action now to secure Peace and protect the Future
The Hague and New York: United Nations Day, October 24, 2025
www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/u...
October 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hague Appeal for Future Generations:
Action now to secure Peace and protect the Future
The Hague and New York: United Nations Day, October 24, 2025
www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/u...
Action now to secure Peace and protect the Future
The Hague and New York: United Nations Day, October 24, 2025
www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/u...
US’s 20-point peace plan:
1. Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours.
2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.
Read the full plan here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_....
1. Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours.
2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.
Read the full plan here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_....
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
US’s 20-point peace plan:
1. Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours.
2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.
Read the full plan here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_....
1. Gaza will be a deradicalised terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours.
2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.
Read the full plan here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_....
The work I am presenting at #SnT2025 builds on a unique database of high quality #tadioxenon stack emissions from PNNL‘s STAX project. Highlights of new findings are covered by one oral and two poster presentations including a solution to a big question that was open for 20 years.
ctbto.info/SnT2025
ctbto.info/SnT2025
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The work I am presenting at #SnT2025 builds on a unique database of high quality #tadioxenon stack emissions from PNNL‘s STAX project. Highlights of new findings are covered by one oral and two poster presentations including a solution to a big question that was open for 20 years.
ctbto.info/SnT2025
ctbto.info/SnT2025
Peace Science Collaboration is delighted to announce common presentations next week at the #SnT2025 Conference of the @ctbto.bsky.social in Vienna.
You can still register and participate virtually in case you cannot make it to the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.
🌐 Info.: ctbto.info/SnT2025
You can still register and participate virtually in case you cannot make it to the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.
🌐 Info.: ctbto.info/SnT2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Peace Science Collaboration is delighted to announce common presentations next week at the #SnT2025 Conference of the @ctbto.bsky.social in Vienna.
You can still register and participate virtually in case you cannot make it to the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.
🌐 Info.: ctbto.info/SnT2025
You can still register and participate virtually in case you cannot make it to the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria.
🌐 Info.: ctbto.info/SnT2025
It was a great pleasure for me to give a talk at the first online edition of the NewComers4Nuclear (NC4N) Summer School 2025, co-organised with WiN Global and Women in Nuclear Innovation (WiNI) Group of Expertise.
The full program can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1dkbs...
The full program can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1dkbs...
September 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It was a great pleasure for me to give a talk at the first online edition of the NewComers4Nuclear (NC4N) Summer School 2025, co-organised with WiN Global and Women in Nuclear Innovation (WiNI) Group of Expertise.
The full program can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1dkbs...
The full program can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1dkbs...
Syria permits the IAEA to visit the Deir al-Zor site and conduct inspections that should bring this matter to a clear and final conclusion. Report by Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The background story reported in 2009 is here: www.armscontrol.org/act/2009-12/...
The background story reported in 2009 is here: www.armscontrol.org/act/2009-12/...
IAEA Disputes Syrian Uranium Claims | Arms Control Association
www.armscontrol.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Syria permits the IAEA to visit the Deir al-Zor site and conduct inspections that should bring this matter to a clear and final conclusion. Report by Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
The background story reported in 2009 is here: www.armscontrol.org/act/2009-12/...
The background story reported in 2009 is here: www.armscontrol.org/act/2009-12/...
How to produce tritium, the fuel required to start up fusion reactors? Terence Tarnowsky, a physicist at Los Almos National Laboratory (LANL), proposes to us a reactor design driven by a particle accelerator to produce tritium from nuclear waste.
www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...
www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...
August 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
How to produce tritium, the fuel required to start up fusion reactors? Terence Tarnowsky, a physicist at Los Almos National Laboratory (LANL), proposes to us a reactor design driven by a particle accelerator to produce tritium from nuclear waste.
www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...
www.acs.org/pressroom/pr...
An Iranian delegation travelled to Russia last year to visit institutes producing dual-use technologies, including electron accelerators and klystrons and radioactive isotopes such as tritium.
www.iranintl.com/en/202508057...
www.iranintl.com/en/202508057...
August 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
An Iranian delegation travelled to Russia last year to visit institutes producing dual-use technologies, including electron accelerators and klystrons and radioactive isotopes such as tritium.
www.iranintl.com/en/202508057...
www.iranintl.com/en/202508057...
This was the largest earthquake since the Tōhoku Earthquake, near the coast of Japan with Magnitude: 9.1 on March 11, 2011. Events >8.7 occur roughly once per decade.
July 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This was the largest earthquake since the Tōhoku Earthquake, near the coast of Japan with Magnitude: 9.1 on March 11, 2011. Events >8.7 occur roughly once per decade.
Reposted by Martin B. Kalinowski
So you agree? We shouldn’t restart explosive nuclear testing? Brandon Williams, nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would not advise new explosive testing and we should “rely on the scientific information.”
Learn more↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
Learn more↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
a woman is talking to a man and asking him if he agrees .
ALT: a woman is talking to a man and asking him if he agrees .
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April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So you agree? We shouldn’t restart explosive nuclear testing? Brandon Williams, nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would not advise new explosive testing and we should “rely on the scientific information.”
Learn more↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
Learn more↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
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New podcast alert! 🎧
We’re excited to share a powerful limited series from UNODA & UNODA Vienna & UN Youth 4 Disarmament 🇺🇳. In moving conversations, youth leaders speak with survivors of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombings.🎙️ Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7DnwBfC...
#NuclearBan
We’re excited to share a powerful limited series from UNODA & UNODA Vienna & UN Youth 4 Disarmament 🇺🇳. In moving conversations, youth leaders speak with survivors of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombings.🎙️ Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7DnwBfC...
#NuclearBan
April 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
New podcast alert! 🎧
We’re excited to share a powerful limited series from UNODA & UNODA Vienna & UN Youth 4 Disarmament 🇺🇳. In moving conversations, youth leaders speak with survivors of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombings.🎙️ Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7DnwBfC...
#NuclearBan
We’re excited to share a powerful limited series from UNODA & UNODA Vienna & UN Youth 4 Disarmament 🇺🇳. In moving conversations, youth leaders speak with survivors of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombings.🎙️ Listen here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7DnwBfC...
#NuclearBan
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🗣️Happening tomorrow, don't miss out on this webinar with young nuclear disarmament advocates and Gorbachev-Schultz Youth Award Winners.
Why Attend?
➡️ Discover how young changemakers are shaping a safer world. ➡️ Learn how you can join the movement.
Register: charterforcompassion.org/news-events/...
Why Attend?
➡️ Discover how young changemakers are shaping a safer world. ➡️ Learn how you can join the movement.
Register: charterforcompassion.org/news-events/...
March 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🗣️Happening tomorrow, don't miss out on this webinar with young nuclear disarmament advocates and Gorbachev-Schultz Youth Award Winners.
Why Attend?
➡️ Discover how young changemakers are shaping a safer world. ➡️ Learn how you can join the movement.
Register: charterforcompassion.org/news-events/...
Why Attend?
➡️ Discover how young changemakers are shaping a safer world. ➡️ Learn how you can join the movement.
Register: charterforcompassion.org/news-events/...
Reposted by Martin B. Kalinowski
Trump administration's first threat assessment flips threat order and begins with nonstate criminals/terrorists before state actors. Last year's assessment began with states.
China "probably" fielding DF-27. Nothing new on Russia. Iran not building nukes. www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/ope...
China "probably" fielding DF-27. Nothing new on Russia. Iran not building nukes. www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/ope...
March 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Trump administration's first threat assessment flips threat order and begins with nonstate criminals/terrorists before state actors. Last year's assessment began with states.
China "probably" fielding DF-27. Nothing new on Russia. Iran not building nukes. www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/ope...
China "probably" fielding DF-27. Nothing new on Russia. Iran not building nukes. www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/ope...
Reposted by Martin B. Kalinowski
“As we navigate the challenges of climate change, [future climate] scenarios remind us that the future remains open—and that our collective actions today will determine the climate reality we pass on to future generations.” Learn more in UCS's Delta Merner's blog:
How Do 'Future Climate Scenarios' Shape Climate Science and Inform Policy?
A deeper look at why emissions scenarios are essential for understanding climate change impacts and mitigation strategies.
blog.ucs.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“As we navigate the challenges of climate change, [future climate] scenarios remind us that the future remains open—and that our collective actions today will determine the climate reality we pass on to future generations.” Learn more in UCS's Delta Merner's blog:
Reposted by Martin B. Kalinowski
