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SUMMARY:The Increasing Risks of Nuclear Weapons - ETH Zurich
DESCRIPTION:Abstract  \nAfter a long period of post-​Cold War stability\, the risks posed by nuclear weapons are increasing sharply\, marked by the invasion of Ukraine and a new generation of nuclear weapons being developed and deployed by Russia\, China\, and the United States. Physicists played an important role in nuclear debates during the Cold War; they can play an important role again in this new period of increased nuclear risk. \nAbout the Speaker \nSteve Fetter is senior visiting fellow in the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich\, on sabbatical leave from the University of Maryland\, where he is professor in the School of Public Policy and former dean. He led the national security division in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration and served in the Department of Defense in the Clinton administration. He received an S.B. in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nSee more details here: https://colloquium.phys.ethz.ch/
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/the-increasing-risks-of-nuclear-weapons-eth-zurich/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Western Michigan University - The Continuing Risk of Nuclear War
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nWith the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union\, the public\, including most physicists\, and Congress\, assumed\, the danger of a nuclear war had ended as well.Unfortunately\, that has not been the case. Indeed\, the danger of accidental nuclear war may be increasing. US and Russian strategic missiles remain in a launch-on-warning posture in an era when hackers have penetrated some of our supposedly most secure computer systems and China appears to be moving toward a similar posture. Both Russia and the United States have committed to hugely costly programs to replace their nuclear weapons with new systems designed to maintain that status quo for the remainder of the century. Meanwhile\, an offense-defense nuclear arms race is developing between the US and China\, which is building up the number of its nuclear weapons that can reach the US as the US increases the number of its ballistic missile interceptors – nominally to defend against North Korea. \nIn the past\, independent physicists have played leading roles in informing Congress and the world about the dangers and offering ideas for how to reduce them – both unilaterally and through agreements with our adversaries. The American Physical Society has supported the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction during its first two years to help renew the engagement of physicists and other physical scientists and engineers with Congress and the public on nuclear-weapons issues. \nFollowing the colloquium\, there will be a discussion of opportunities to contribute to this effort. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. 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\, he worked with Soviet physicists advising Mikhail Gorbachev on initiatives to end the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.  During 1993-4\, he worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology on nuclear policy issues including improving the security of Russia’s fissile materials\, partnering with Russia on a global effort to convert research reactors from weapon-grade to low-enriched uranium fuel\, and disposing of the plutonium from excess Cold War warheads.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/physicists-coalition-colloquium-western-michigan-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Uppsala University - Reducing the Risks of Nuclear Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nAfter a long period of post-Cold War stability\, the risks posed by nuclear weapons are increasing sharply.  This is marked by the invasion of Ukraine\, a nuclear generation of Russian nuclear weapons\, expansion of China’s nuclear arsenal and tensions over Taiwan\, missile testing by North Korea and uranium enrichment by Iran\, and a major nuclear modernization program in the United States\, with calls for substantial increases to respond to Russia and China.  Physicists played an important role in nuclear debates during the Cold War; they can play an important role again in this new period of increased nuclear risk.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nSteve Fetter is a senior visiting fellow in the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich\, on sabbatical leave from the University of Maryland\, where he is professor in the School of Public Policy and former dean.  He led the national security division in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration and served in the Department of Defense in the Clinton administration.  He received an S.B. in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/reducing-the-risks-of-nuclear-weapons-uppsala-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Oppenheimer and the Legacy of the Manhattan Project: Current Challenges in Nuclear Arms Control
DESCRIPTION:Abstract  \n80 years ago\, Robert Oppenheimer led an industrial scale effort with more than 130\,000 employees to create the nuclear fission weapons used to end 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. Today\, nine countries possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy is increasingly difficult. Important arms control treaties have been terminated: The Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty\, the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Open Skies Treaty. Most recently\, Russia has paused its participation in the inspection regime of the New START treaty. The colloquium will review 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. We will then review the challenges different arms control agreements have been facing.\n \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. 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/physicists-coalition-colloquium-thomas-jefferson-national-accelerator-facility/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:College of William and Mary - The Continuing Risk of Nuclear War
DESCRIPTION:Abstract  \nWith the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union\, the public\, including most physicists\, and Congress\, assumed\, the danger of a nuclear war had ended as well.Unfortunately\, that has not been the case. Indeed\, the danger of accidental nuclear war may be increasing. US and Russian strategic missiles remain in a launch-on-warning posture in an era when hackers have penetrated some of our supposedly most secure computer systems and China appears to be moving toward a similar posture. Both Russia and the United States have committed to hugely costly programs to replace their nuclear weapons with new systems designed to maintain that status quo for the remainder of the century. Meanwhile\, an offense-defense nuclear arms race is developing between the US and China\, which is building up the number of its nuclear weapons that can reach the US as the US increases the number of its ballistic missile interceptors – nominally to defend against North Korea. \nIn the past\, independent physicists have played leading roles in informing Congress and the world about the dangers and offering ideas for how to reduce them – both unilaterally and through agreements with our adversaries. The American Physical Society has supported the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction during its first two years to help renew the engagement of physicists and other physical scientists and engineers with Congress and the public on nuclear-weapons issues. \nFollowing the colloquium\, there will be a discussion of opportunities to contribute to this effort. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. 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\, he worked with Soviet physicists advising Mikhail Gorbachev on initiatives to end the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.  During 1993-4\, he worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology on nuclear policy issues including improving the security of Russia’s fissile materials\, partnering with Russia on a global effort to convert research reactors from weapon-grade to low-enriched uranium fuel\, and disposing of the plutonium from excess Cold War warheads.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/physicists-coalition-colloquium-college-of-william-and-mary/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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