Articles by Robin E. Möser

November 28, 2025

☢️ Africa’s disarmament experience holds lessons for a stalled nuclear debate 

Robin E. Möser
African states have long championed nuclear disarmament, from resisting colonial-era testing to advancing the Pelindaba and Prohibition Treaties. Yet frustration is growing over the slow pace of progress and exclusion from global forums. Robin Möser argues that African experiences offer lessons to revitalise inclusivity ahead of the 2026 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference
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Robin E. Möser
Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University Darmstadt / Associate Fellow, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

Robin is a member of the PRIF research group Science for Nuclear Diplomacy.

He also works in the project VeSPoTec – Verification in a complex and unpredictable world: social, political and technical processes.

Robin's research interests include nuclear disar­mament and veri­fication issues as well as arms control and non-proli­feration more broadly.

His work has appeared in The Nonproliferation Review, Cold War History, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Book cover titled 'Disarming Apartheid' by Robin E. Moser showing a nuclear facility with a tall chimney and hexagonal roof against hills.

Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991
Cambridge University Press, 2024

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