Hans Møller Kristensen (born April 7, 1961) is director of the Nuclear Information Project at the

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. He writes about nuclear weapons policy there; he is coauthor of the Nuclear Notebook column in the

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, and the World Nuclear Forces appendix in

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's annual SIPRI Yearbook. His work especially relies on using the

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to compel

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agencies to release documents. He maintains an on-line overview of the number of nuclear weapons in the world, and writes frequently on the FAS Strategic Security Blog. He is critical of the development and deployment of nuclear weaponry by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. In 2005 he discovered a draft document on a

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that proposed a change in U.S. nuclear doctrine to include the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike. Even though

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Rumsfeld had not approved the change, its publication provoked a reaction from some members of

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. In 2022, US President Joe Biden announced that the United States would use nuclear weapons as a first strike in "extreme circumstance," without any objection from Kristensen or the Federation of American Scientists.

Professional history

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List of Publications
(FAS index)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
(BAS index)
Hans M. Kristensen in the news
(FAS overview) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kristensen, Hans M. Danish expatriates in the United States American anti–nuclear weapons activists 1961 births Living people American political writers American male non-fiction writers People associated with Greenpeace