Packed room as the 69th #IAEAGC kicks off - definitely one of the more tense ones with many pressing issues from non-proliferation to nuclear safety and security high on the agenda and impacting work in all areas. We will need plenty of #Viennaspirit

At the #CTBTO #SNT conference opening @bmeia.gv.at Foreign Minister highlights today‘s polycrisis in which #nuclear #weapons play a part. The need for #cooperation is obvious to scientists - it needs to return to nuclear diplomacy, too, to eliminate the threat of #nukes to all of us once and for all

The #TPNW #Scientific Advisory Group #TPNWSAG showcases the Treaty's fact-based argumentation. The facts speak for themselves. To further engage science & academia, a network was created, as #Austrian SAG member Prof. Seibert laid out. Read the SAG's updated report here: docs.un.org/en/TPNW/MSP/...

Full room at the #TPNW #Monitor side event by @bmeia.gv.at, #Ireland and @npaid.bsky.social - a great tool for universalization and implementation and for highlighting dangerous trends: the age of decreasing #nuclear #arsenals is over, as @nukestrat.bsky.social laid out. @akmentt.bsky.social

And we‘re off at the #TPNW ‘s 3rd Meeting of States Parties. With increased international tensions and increased reliance by some on #NuclearWeapons our work is urgent to put the catastrophic humanitarian consequences & unacceptable risks at the center and make actual progress on nuclear disarmament

A call to #multilateralism & #nuclear #disarmament by #Austria ‘s 11th president #HeinzFischer & #UNSG #BanKi-Moon at #Vienna City hall - and a nod to Vienna’s central role from hosting the @iaeaorg.bsky.social & @ctbto.bsky.social to the 1st meeting of #TPNW States Parties. @akmentt.bsky.social