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Julia Burghardt

Julia Burghardt

Political analyst and author specializing in nuclear arms control and Euro-Atlantic security; Programme Lead (Nuclear Weapons and New Technologies) and Senior Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network (ELN), based in Berlin and Munich.

Aug 18, 2026

2:40
Um, with that in mind, now we know what fail-safe review is, could you tell the listeners a little bit more about the ELN's, basically your work on this very important topic?
2:48
Yes.
2:48
Christmas and birthday combined, I have to say.
2:51
Um, the topic is really close to my heart.
2:53
Um, the ELN and its sister network, the APLN, we have been running a, a project on nuclear fail-safe since 2024, um, in which we were investigating the historic aspect of nuclear fail-safe reviews.
3:07
For example, the, um, historic US, um, fail-safe review of the 1990s.
3:12
We did research on individual countries conception around fail-safe, about different terminologies because, um, while in the English-speaking community one might speak about fail-safe, other countries like France, for example, might have completely different terms.

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40:44
Um, Julia, do you have any perspective on, on those?

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