Funding sources

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 of scholarly criteria, by peers. 

Since the creation of the program, the funding sources are

- 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 Benoît Pelopidas' salary from September 2016 to August 2019 as well as the salaries from two post-doctoral scholars.

- 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 European Research Council (ERC) NUCLEAR Project (Nuclear Weapons Choices. Governing Nuclear Vulnerabilities between past and future) 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 European Commission's H2020 program for research and innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie project SNNO (Strategic Narratives of Nuclear Order) awarded to Dr Kjølv Egeland on the basis of a peer review of the scholarly project and an assessment of scholarly accomplishments to date (September 2019 to September 2021).

- The Marie Sklodowska-Curie project BNE (Bounding Nuclear Exceptionalism) awarded to Dr Sanne Cornelia J. Verschuren on the basis of a peer review of the scholarly project and of an assessment of scholarly accomplishments to date (September 2022 to August 2024)

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