Position: Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Physics at Technische Universität Dortmund – ICRAC Vice-Chair
Links: Website
Expertise Areas: Arms Control, Verification
Contact: juergen.altmann@tu-dortmund.de
Bio:
Jürgen Altmann is a physicist and peace researcher at TU Dortmund University, Germany. He is a co-founder and the chair of the German Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security (FONAS). He teaches about the relationship of natural science, armament and disarmament and has authored chapters in corresponding text books.
Publications:
Altmann, J. (2001). Military Uses of Microsystem Technologies – Dangers and Preventive Arms Control, Münster: agenda.
Altmann, J. (2006). Military Nanotechnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control, Abingdon/New York: Routledge.
Altmann, J. (2013). Arms Control for Armed Uninhabited Vehicles An Ethical Issue, Ethics and Information Technology, 15 (2), 137-152, 2013, DOI 10.1007/s10676-013-9314-5. PDF
Altmann, J., Sauer, F. (2017). Autonomous Weapon Systems and Strategic Stability, Survival 59 (5), 117-142, 2017, DOI 10.1080/00396338.2017.1375263.
Altmann, J. (2019). Natural-Science/Engineering Peace Research, in C. Reuter (ed.), Information Technology for Peace and Security IT Applications and Infrastructures in Conflicts, Crises, War and Peace, Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg.
Altmann, J. (2019) Autonomous Weapon Systems Dangers and Need for an International Prohibition, in C. Benzmüller, H. Stuckenschmidt (eds.), KI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 42nd German Conference on AI, Kassel, Germany, September 2326, 2019, Proceedings, Cham: Springer, 2019, 1-17.
Altmann, J. (2020) Technology, Arms Control and World Order: Fundamental Change Needed, Toda Peace Institute Policy Brief No. 89, September 2020, https://toda.org/assets/files/resources/policy-briefs/t-pb-89_jurgen-altmann.pdf.
Altmann, J. (2020) Armed Uninhabited Vehicles: Dangers and Preventive Arms Control, Forschung DSF No. 48, Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung, 2020, https://bundesstiftung-friedensforschung.de/blog/forschung-dsf-no-48/.
Pilch, Mathias, Altmann, J., and Suter, Dieter (2021) Survey of the Status of Small Armed and Unarmed Uninhabited Aircraft, Preventive Arms Control for Small and Very Small Armed Aircraft and Missiles Report No. 1, Chair Experimental Physics 3, TU Dortmund University, Feb. 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21944.
Altmann, J., and Suter, Dieter (2022) Survey of the Status of Small and Very Small Missiles, Preventive Arms Control for Small and Very Small Armed Aircraft and Missiles Report No. 2, Chair Experimental Physics 3, TU Dortmund University, Feb. 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22569.
Lemke, Ole, Altmann, J., and Degeling, Martin (2022) Crisis escalation from autonomous weapon systems: agent-based modeling for military-technology assessment, p. 723-728 in: D. Demmler, D. Krupka, H. Federrath. (eds.): INFORMATIK 2022, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Bonn: Gesellschaft fur Informatik, 2022; doi:10.18420/inf2022_59 https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2022_59.
Altmann, J., Pilch, Mathias, and Suter, Dieter (2022) Small Armed Aircraft and Missiles: Dangers for International Security, Die Friedens-Warte, Journal of International Peace and Organization 95, 3-4, 316-339 (2022).
Altmann, J., Suter, Dieter (2023) Small and Very Small Armed Aircraft and Missiles: Trends in Technology and Preventive Arms Control, Preventive Arms Control for Small and Very Small Armed Aircraft and Missiles Report No. 3, Chair Experimental Physics 3, TU Dortmund University, March 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-23115.
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