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SUMMARY:Illinois State University – A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nThe first nuclear weapon was tested in Alamogordo\, NM\, in July 1945. In the following month\, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed through the explosion of two nuclear warheads. These horrifying strikes directly led to the surrender of Japan almost 4 years after its attack on Pearl Harbor. An industrial scale effort with more than 130\,000 employees produced the first nuclear fission weapons during World War II. With the United States and its allies facing totalitarian aggressors in the European and Pacific theaters\, many elite scientists\, engineers\, and technicians supported the Manhattan Project through their scientific and technological innovations. 75 years later\, despite enormous international efforts to create an effective system of nuclear arms control agreements that seek to limit nuclear weapons technology to the initial nuclear powers\, knowledge and technology have further proliferated. Today nine countries possess nuclear weapons. \nAlarmingly important arms control treaties have been challenged also by leading nuclear weapon states: The United States and Russia have ended the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty. Failure in the negotiations for an extension of the New START treaty was avoided only at the last moment. The United States has withdrawn from the JCPOA (the Iran Nuclear Deal). Both the United States and Russia have withdrawn from the Open Skies Arms Control Treaty. \nThe colloquium will review possible consequences of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism and explain the system of arms control treaties that have been put into place to contain this threat over the past 70 years. We will briefly review challenges different arms control agreements have been facing in the recent past. Some focus will be placed on the Iran Nuclear Deal\, an agreement that aims to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Iran. We will discuss the recent history\, including the US withdrawal in 2018 and current efforts to re-negotiate the agreement. \nAbout the Speaker \nProfessor Matthias Grosse Perdekamp is a nuclear physicist at the University of Illinois. He serves as head of the Department of Physics and as director of the UIUC Program for Arms Control and Domestic and International Security\, ACDIS. He explores the Physics of nuclear forces and the structure of the fundamental building blocks of nuclear matter through accelerator-based experiments at European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics\, CERN\, in Geneva Switzerland. His laboratory is developing advanced instrumentation for the detection of ionizing radiation. He teaches a longstanding course on Nuclear War and Arms Control as part of the ACDIS security certificate for undergraduate students at UIUC.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/illinois-state-university-a-case-study-in-nuclear-proliferation-the-iran-nuclear-deal-and-the-responsibility-of-physicists/
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SUMMARY:Georgetown University - The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce It)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nWhile nuclear weapons might sound like Cold War relics\, in truth the immense risks they pose to all humanity are still very much with us. In fact\, trends indicate the risks may be growing with the abandonment of arms control agreements and the development of new types of strategic weapons. Physicists have historically constructively engaged policymakers and their communities to help reduce nuclear dangers. This talk will explain the current nuclear crisis\, provide feasible remedies\, and introduce a new project created to help physicists once again get involved. \nAbout the Speaker  \nDr. Laura Grego is a senior scientist and the research director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists\, where she has worked at the intersection of science and public policy\, in particular nuclear weapons\, missile defense\, and space security issues\, for twenty years. She recently completed a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship at the Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy at MIT. Dr. Grego serves on the American Physical Society’s (APS) Panel on Public Affairs as the representative of the Forum on Physics and Society and serves on the steering committee of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. She is an associate editor for the journal Science and Global Security\, and a 2021 Fellow of the APS and a recipient of the 2022 APS Leo Szilard Award. Dr. Grego focuses her analysis and advocacy on missile defense\, outer space security\, and nuclear weapons. She has authored or co-authored numerous papers on a range of topics\, including cosmology\, space security\, and missile defense\, and has testified before Congress and addressed the UN General Assembly and the UN Conference on Disarmament on security issues. Before joining UCS\, Dr. Grego was a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics at the California Institute of Technology\, and a B.S. in physics and astronomy at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/georgetown-university-the-growing-danger-of-nuclear-weapons-and-how-physicists-can-help-reduce-it/
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