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Vitaly Fedchenko
POSITION AT SIPRI
Senior Researcher
Vitaly Fedchenko
Vitaly Fedchenko is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, responsible for nuclear security issues and the political, technological and educational dimensions of nuclear arms control and non-proliferation. He is the author or co-author of multiple publications on nuclear forensics, nuclear security, and nuclear non-proliferation.
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
- 8. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2023)
- 11. Nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)
- 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)
- Nuclear Security During Armed Conflict: Lessons From Ukraine (SIPRI, Stockholm:March 2023)
- Nuclear Security in Ukraine and the Black Sea Region: New Threats, New Risks, New Consequences (SIPRI, Stockholm:March 2023)
- Nuclear Security in the Black Sea Region: Contested Spaces, National Capacities and Multinational Potential (SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2018)
- Nuclear Forensics as Nuclear Material Analysis for Security PurposesJune 2017)
- Phosphate Fertilizers as a Proliferation-relevant Source of UraniumMay 2017)
- The New Nuclear Forensics2015), pp. 280
- North Korea’s Nuclear Test Explosion, 2009December 2009), 8 pp.
- Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group2007)
External publications
- Fedchenki, V. (co-author), Sustaining Human Resources in the Area of Prevention, Detection and Response to Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material Out of Regulatory Control, World Institute for Nuclear Security (May 2022)
- 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)