Steering Committee Statements and Positions
Below you can see positions, policy papers, letters, and other documents prepared by Coalition staff and leaders, and used in previous advocacy campaigns.
Coalition Positions/Statements
- Resources for Understanding President Trump’s Order to Resume Nuclear Weapon Testing (November 2025)
- Statement highlighting “opportunities for enhanced nuclear arms control,” after New START (October 2025)
- Statement Urging Congress to Not Fund the Golden Dome (September 2025)
- Letters to Congress in support of Nuclear Threat Reduction (2025): Senate Resolution 61 ; House Resolutions 317 and 100
- Statement in Support of the UN Resolution “Nuclear War Effects and Scientific Research” (2024)
- The U.S. Must Show Leadership in Nuclear Threat Reduction Dialogue by Sending an Observer to Nuclear Ban Meeting (2023)
- The Addition of Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles to U.S. Nuclear Arsenal is Unnecessary and Destabilizing (2023)
- Arms Control Diplomacy with Russia Helps Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Weapons (2023)
- Scientists Condemn Use and Threats to Use Nuclear Weapons (2023)
- Adopting a No-First-Use Policy Would Make the U.S. Safer (2021)
- Resuming Nuclear Testing is Unnecessary and Would Undermine the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (2021)
Letters to Congress/Government
Expert Policy Papers
These papers discuss topics of interest to the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction, but represent only the views of the authors.
Benefits of not testing, Frank von Hippel (11/26/2020; Updated August 2023)
Ending launch on warning, Frank von Hippel (11/15/2020)
Future of US ICBMs, Frank von Hippel (11/14/2020)
A No-First-Use Policy, Stewart Prager (12/1/2020)
Extension of the New START Treaty, Stewart Prager (12/1/2020) – Related: Support Arms Control Diplomacy with Russia