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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
- 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 purposes (June 2017)
- Phosphate fertilizers as a proliferation-relevant source of uranium (May 2017)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)