Vitaly Fedchenko

POSITION AT SIPRI

Senior Researcher

Vitaly Fedchenko

Vitaly Fedchenko is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Nuclear Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme, responsible for nuclear security issues and the political, technological and educational dimensions of nuclear arms control and non-proliferation. Previously he was a visiting researcher at SIPRI and worked at the Center for Policy Studies in Russia at the Institute for Applied International Research in Moscow. He is the author or co-author of several publications on international non-proliferation and disarmament assistance, the international nuclear fuel cycle and Russian nuclear exports.

Subject expertise

Nuclear technology; strategic forces technology; nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear materials and fuel, uranium and plutonium; nuclear warheads, nuclear forensics and verification

Regional expertise

Russia

CONTACT Vitaly Fedchenko

Languages

Russian, English, Swedish

Education

BA and MA in Nuclear Physics,  Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

Citizenship

Russia

Affiliations

Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Member
International Technical Working Group on Nuclear Forensics, Member

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Is there hope for nuclear disarmament? (Blog, September 2016)
Nuclear power and the European Energy Security Strategy (Essay, June 2014)
Explosive potential of North Korean missiles still more diplomatic than nuclear (Expert comment, December 2012)
Using nuclear forensics to increase international nuclear security cooperation (Essay, March 2012)

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Fedchenko, V. and Anthony, I., Nuclear Security in the Black Sea Region: Contested Spaces, National Capacities and Multinational Potential (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2018)
Fedchenko, V., Nuclear Forensics as Nuclear Material Analysis for Security Purposes (June 2017)
Kelley, R. and Fedchenko, V., Phosphate Fertilizers as a Proliferation-relevant Source of Uranium (May 2017)
Fedchenko, V., The New Nuclear Forensics (Oxford University Press: 2015), pp. 280
North Korea’s Nuclear Test Explosion, 2009 (SIPRI: December 2009), 8 pp.
Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (Oxford University Press: 2007)
11. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)
6. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
11. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2017)
6. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2013)
7. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2012)
8. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2010)
Appendix 8B. Nuclear explosions, 1945–2009 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2010)
8. World nuclear forces (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2009)
Appendix 8A. World nuclear forces, 2008 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
Appendix 8D. Nuclear forensic analysis (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2008)
Appendix 12A. World nuclear forces, 2007 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2007)
Appendix 12B. Nuclear explosions, 1945–2006 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2007)
Appendix 13A. World nuclear forces, 2006 (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
Appendix 13C. Multilateral control of the nuclear fuel cycle (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2006)
16. International non-proliferation and disarmament assistance (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2005)

External publications

Fedchenko, V. and Kelley, R. E., New methodology offers estimates for North Korean thermonuclear stockpile, Jane’s Intelligence Review (July 2020)
Contribution to Wolfrum, R. (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Fedchenko, V., Weapons of mass analysis, Jane’s Intelligence Review, vol. 19, no. 11 (Nov. 2007)