Vitaly Fedchenko

POSITION AT SIPRI

Senior Researcher

Vitaly Fedchenko

Vitaly Fedchenko is a Senior Researcher with the SIPRI European Security 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

Phone number

+46 766 286 233

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., 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)

External publications

Contribution to Wolfrum, R. (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Fedchenko, V., ‘Nuclear forensic analysis’, SIPRI Yearbook 2008: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Fedchenko, V., ‘Weapons of mass analysis’, Jane’s Intelligence Review, vol. 19, no. 11 (Nov. 2007)