What journalists need to know about nuclear weapons
Fri 17 April 2026
11:30
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The era of nuclear reductions is over. After decades of post-Cold War action to reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in military doctrines, all nine countries are modernizing their arsenals once again. These collective actions will keep nuclear weapons in global stockpiles for at least the next 75 years. Meanwhile, these same countries are becoming increasingly less transparent about their nuclear forces — further muddying the waters of who is deploying what, and why.
Although nuclear policy is often dictated exclusively at the highest levels of government, these decisions have ground-level implications for people around the globe. In an environment where nuclear reliance and secrecy are growing, knowing what is happening, how it is happening, and why it is happening are critical components to developing effective policy responses, holding governments to account, and informing the public of changes that affect them.
Nuclear expert Matt Korda will talk about this arms build-up, global trends and the state of world nuclear security. Korda is the Associate Director for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he co-authors the Nuclear Notebook — an authoritative open-source estimate of global nuclear forces and trends.
Korda’s presentation will be followed by an onstage conversation with Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrie Fihn, Director of Lex International Fund, and Robert K. Elder, President and CEO of Outrider Foundation.
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Robert Elder
Robert K. Elder is the President & CEO of Outrider Foundation, which supports multimedia storytelling and journalism about climate change and nuclear threats. Outrider’s fellowship program includes journalists at The New York Times, Time magazine, public radio’s Science Friday and InsideClimate News. Outrider has also partnered with the Associated Press on a project called “The New Nuclear Landscape,” which includes enterprise and investigative coverage about nuclear security issues. Elder is the author or editor of more than twenty five books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and many other publications.
Beatrice Fihn
Beatrice Fihn is the Director of Lex International Fund, a philanthropic fund focused on supporting and developing international law, and a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. She is an expert on international law, weapons governance and civil society mobilization. She is the former Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Beatrice accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and delivered the Nobel Lecture in Oslo on behalf of the campaign. As one of the world’s foremost experts on civil society mobilization, international law, and diplomacy and multilateralism, she has worked over a decade to convince governments, parliamentarians and international organizations to come together and work collectively for global governance solutions. She has spoken at the United Nations, the European Parliament, the World Economic Forum, the Munich Security Conference and SXSW, as well as lecturing at numerous universities, including Harvard, Penn, Oxford and Cambridge. Her work has been covered and reported on by CNN, BBC HARDtalk and the Financial Times, amongst others. She has also been profiled by the New York Times and Time magazine, as well as being listed as one of the 50 most influential people by Bloomberg Media. Born in Sweden, Beatrice has a Master’s degree in Law from the University of London and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stockholm University.
Matt Korda
Matt Korda is the Associate Director for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he co-authors the Nuclear Notebook–an authoritative open-source estimate of global nuclear forces and trends. Matt is also an Associate Senior Researcher with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and co-authors the nuclear weapons chapters for the annual SIPRI Yearbook. Previously, he worked for the Arms Control, Disarmament, and WMD Non-Proliferation Centre at NATO HQ in Brussels. Matt’s research and open-source discoveries about nuclear weapons have made headlines across the globe, and his work is regularly used by governments, policymakers, academics, journalists, and the broader public in order to challenge assumptions and improve accountability about nuclear arsenals and trends. He received his MA in International Peace & Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he subsequently worked as a Research Assistant on nuclear deterrence and strategic stability. He also completed an internship with the Verification, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) in London, where he focused on nuclear security and safeguards. He received a BA in European Studies from Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Matt’s research interests and recent publications focus on nuclear deterrence and disarmament, progressive foreign policy, and the nexus between nuclear weapons, climate change, and injustice. Matt’s work has been widely published and quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Associated Press, CNN, The Toronto Star, Forbes, CBC, Politico, The Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Defense One, Inkstick, Outrider, 38 North, Arms Control Wonk, and others.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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