In France, Nuclear Knowledges is the first scholarly research program on the nuclear phenomenon, which is fully independent and transparent on its funding sources. We categorically refuse conflict of interest and only accept funding based on the assessment of scholarly work on the basis peer review and scholarly criteria.

Since the creation of the program, the funding sources are:

• The Carnegie Corporation of New York project “The Bureaucratic Politics of Nuclear Alliance Management: The Role of U.S. Allies and Partners in U.S. Nuclear Strategy”, awarded to Prof Benoît Pelopidas (September 2024 to September 2026).
• The European Research Council project NUCLEAR (Nuclear Weapons Choices: Governing Nuclear Vulnerabilities between Past and Future), awarded to Dr Benoît Pelopidas (September 2018 to February 2025)
• The Marie Sklodowska-Curie project BNE (Bounding Nuclear Exceptionalism) awarded to Dr Sanne Cornelia J. Verschuren (September 2022 to August 2024)
• The Marie Sklodowska-Curie project SNNO (Strategic Narratives of Nuclear Order), awarded to Dr Kjølv Egeland as part of the European Commission's H2020 program for research and innovation (September 2019 to September 2021)
• The French National Research Agency (ANR) VULPAN Project on “Political Vulnerability in the Nuclear Age”. Awarded to Dr Benoît Pelopidas on the basis of a peer review of the scholarly project and an assessment of scholarly accomplishments to date
• The French Ministry of Research: Chair of excellence in security studies, within the framework of an IDEX (initiative d'excellence), awarded to Sciences Po for Dr Benoît Pelopidas' project. It paid 100% of Dr Pelopidas' salary between September 2016 and August 2019 as well as the salaries from two post-doctoral researchers

We are grateful to the EU Consortium for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament which supported internships with the program and to the Nonproliferation International History Project (NPIHP) which has funded research visits to archives and a 2018 workshop.