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Yale University – Walking the World Back from the Nuclear Brink: What can Scientists do?

Sloane Physics Lab, Room 59 217 Prospect St, New Haven

Abstract Despite shrinking significantly at the end of the Cold War, the world nuclear weapon arsenals continue to represent a significant threat to humanity. About 14,000 nuclear weapons are still deployed or in reserve and other 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles are ready to be launched within minutes. Recent trends indicate the risks of nuclear war …

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Kenyon College – Oppenheimer, the Dangers of Nuclear War Today, and How Physicists Can Help Reduce Them

Abstract The film Oppenheimer barely hints at the debate among the Manhattan Project physicists on “the impact of the Gadget on Civilization” and their efforts to influence the decision on using nuclear weapons against Japan. It also does not explain that Oppenheimer’s “trial” and termination as a government advisor was due to his opposition to …

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North Carolina A&T University – The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons

Marteena Hall Room 310

Colloquium Abstract  The world is in a precarious place right now and nuclear risk is higher than it has been in decades. The war in Ukraine has brought latent fears about nuclear war back to the surface. In recent years, the US has withdrawn from several arms control agreements that constrained US and Russian arsenals, and …

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Ohio State University – How to Avert the Coming Arms Race

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University

Abstract  The United States, Russia, and China are engaged in the early phases of a new nuclear arms race and Russia and NATO are engaged in a nuclear-tinged war in Ukraine. With the recent shredding of arms-control agreements, the arms races may proceed unfettered and could lead to unprecedented dangers to humanity. On the other …

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Physicists Coalition Colloquium – University of Hawaiʻi

About the Speaker  Dr. Robert Goldston is a professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and associated faculty with Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security. His research interests include neutron-based methods to verify warheads for disarmament, non-invasive UF6 flow meters and neutron detectors to verify operation of gas-centrifuge enrichment plants, and robotic techniques to monitor …

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Physicists Coalition Colloquium – MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)

About the Speaker  Dr. 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 …

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Cornell University – Actionable Ideas for Nuclear Threat Reduction

Cornell University, Department of Physics

About the Speaker Dr. Angela Di Fulvio is an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) at the University of Illinois, director of the Nuclear Measurement Laboratory, member of the Program in Arms Control & Domestic & International Security at UIUC, and a researcher in the technical aspects of nuclear …

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Oppenheimer and the Legacy of the Manhattan Project: Current Challenges in Nuclear Arms Control- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

About the Speaker Dr. 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 …

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Physicists Coalition Colloquium – College of William and Mary

About the Speaker Dr. Frank N. von Hippel, a theoretical particle physicist by training, is a Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus at Princeton University.  He co-founded Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security, the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and the Physicist’s Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. During the 1980s, …

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