From Monday next week I’ll be at the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference (here in Vienna) contributing to the VERTIC Trust and Verify blog coverage of the event. VERTIC is a London-based NGO dealing with verification (checking and confidence-building after states have signed treaties or promised to do stuff) relating to arms control and disarmament (nuclear, biological, chemical), the environment and peace treaties. VERTIC is naturally an observer at the IAEA because much of the Agency’s work relates to nuclear verification, making sure that civilian nuclear projects are not used for military purposes.
I’ll be helping Andreas Persbo, the acting executive director of VERTIC, and Hassan ElBahtimy, nuclear researcher, provide regularly-updating coverage of the Conference. So keep checking! It’ll be just like being there, but without the bag search!
The blog is here.
And the IAEA is here.
