Nuclear Threat Reduction Advocacy Strategy
In line with the Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reductions’s mission, we have focused our policy advocacy efforts on the most urgent challenges today, including
- Building support for U.S. diplomatic engagement with Russia and China on nuclear risk reduction and arms control to avoid miscalculation, reduce arsenals, and prevent arms racing
- Building support in Congress to block the addition of new nuclear technologies to the U.S. nuclear arsenal which are destabilizing
- Mobilizing scientists through initiatives that encourage U.S. and global leaders to reinforce norms against nuclear weapons use and threats of use
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
- The U.S. Must Show Leadership in Nuclear Threat Reduction Dialogue by Sending an Observing 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 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