@olivermeier.bsky.social
Head of Programme on Nuclear and Multilateral Disarmament at the European Leadership Network @theeln.bsky.social, based in Berlin. WMD elimination through arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation. Personal views only.
@olivermeier.bsky.socialTrump verhandelt *nicht* über Atomabrüstung mit Moskau und Peking, lieber @spiegel.de. Das ist wirklich ganz einfach zu recherchieren und "Newsmax" wohl kaum eine gute Quelle. Warum werden solch offenbar unsinnigen Meldungen einfach weiterverbreitet? www.spiegel.de/ausland/atom...
@noelreports.comReposted by @olivermeier.bsky.social❗️German Chancellor Friedrich Merz rejected a proposal to transfer frozen Russian assets held in Europe to US control. “These are assets frozen in Europe, and they must remain frozen in Europe. This is our business, and we make the decisions on it,” Merz said. #Europe
@olivermeier.bsky.socialOr both.
www.politico.eu?p=9152060
@olivermeier.bsky.socialThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is facing a funding crisis because the US has not its dues. Former #OPCW Director-General and @theeln.bsky.social Network member Ahmet Üzümcü analyses what is at stake:
@olivermeier.bsky.socialI would not say that this is "a problem" but rather good news for the prospects of a fair and equitable international order.
@ban-cbw.bsky.socialReposted by @olivermeier.bsky.social#BiologicalWeapons #Plague #Russia #Transparency
Russia dismisses transparency calls amid reports of second Siberia plague case
www.euronews.com/2026/10/07/r...
Russia dismissed calls for transparency over the death of a laboratory technician from plague in Siberia on Wednesday, as reports ...
@olivermeier.bsky.socialCatch-line to start the week: "Hiroshima is not a shrine. It’s the future." Good piece by Simon Tisdall in @theguardian.com 👇
@olivermeier.bsky.socialThe days are getting darker and shorter. It is that time of year again: www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
@olivermeier.bsky.socialVery happy @nobelprize.org awarded Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, at time when international law under attack. Brings back memories of 2022, when German UN Association chickened out of awarding "Otto-Hahn-Friedensmedaille" because of smear campaign against Pillay.
dgvn.berlin/2022/08/30/v...
@rikefranke.euReposted by @olivermeier.bsky.social“The demarche request appears to be an unusual administration effort to use allied government pressure to silence criticism from European citizens and Americans abroad”
@olivermeier.bsky.social3/3 Well, not anymore. Hymans was right to ask "whether a populist administration in Washington would be willing to trade Pittsburgh for Portland." Respect! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
@olivermeier.bsky.social2/ This was in response to a @thenonproreview.bsky.social article on "Upsetting the nuclear order: how the rise of nationalist populism increases nuclear dangers" by @marenvieluf.bsky.social and myself. At the time, I thought this argument may be a bit over the top. is.gd/Oc34Na
@olivermeier.bsky.social1/ Four years ago, Jacques Hymans wrote that "populists are likely to be insensitive to nuclear threats to the political
strongholds of their domestic opponents." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@theeln.bsky.socialReposted by @olivermeier.bsky.socialIs Iran’s leverage beginning to erode?
The latest ELN Iran Briefing examines the shifting strategic debate in Tehran after Washington rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear talks.
Read the full briefing here👇
mailchi.mp/europeanlead...
@gregkoblentz.bsky.socialReposted by @olivermeier.bsky.socialGood summary of what is known so far
RFI: Fatal laboratory-acquired infection in Irkutsk Region, Russia; possible pneumonic plague; 197 contacts hospitalized for observation via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...,
@olivermeier.bsky.socialApparently no involvement of NATO non-nuclear weapon states, including Germany, at France's recent Poker exercise? united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
@olivermeier.bsky.socialI have a new piece in @armscontrolnow.bsky.social with my take on the 2026 #NPTRevCon. It includes a few thoughts on how to address the structural problems that have plagued the NPT and make this review cycle more productive and interesting: www.armscontrol.org/node/15506
@olivermeier.bsky.social2/ Also a good opportunity to re-post my small @theeln.bsky.social piece on why the private sector is not going to solve the AI-related problems they it has caused: europeanleadershipnetwork.org?p=26270
@olivermeier.bsky.social1/ Irony is dead: Donald Trump, the great moral authority, explains that a statement of intent by AI billionaires to reign in the technology that made them rich is "morally binding". www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
@saschaschmidt.bsky.socialReposted by @olivermeier.bsky.socialDiese Abstimmung ist ein Skandal. Und vor dem Hintergrund der - zum Teil berechtigten - Vorwürfe der CDU in Bezug auf Antisemitismus in der Linken, umso mehr. Die CDU sollte auch den Antisemitismus in den eigenen Reihen angehen.
