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Brigham Young University – The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce the Threat)

Brigham Young University

Colloquium Abstract With geopolitical and technological changes driven by the nine nuclear weapons states, we are witnessing a new nuclear arms race and deterioration of the multi-decade arms control regime. This talk will overview basic information on nuclear arms, the current  critical situation, feasible steps to reduce the nuclear threat, and a new project to engage […]

Georgia Institute of Technology – The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: And How Physicists can Help Reduce the Threat

Colloquium Abstract With geopolitical and technological changes driven by the nine nuclear weapons states, we are witnessing a new nuclear arms race and deterioration of the multi-decade arms control regime. This talk will overview basic information on nuclear arms, the current  critical situation, feasible steps to reduce the nuclear threat, and a new project initiated by […]

San Francisco State University- Global Famine after Nuclear War

Colloquium Abstract A nuclear war could inject so much smoke from the resulting fires into the stratosphere that the resulting climate change would be unprecedented in recorded human history. Our climate model simulations find that the smoke would absorb sunlight, making it dark, cold, and dry at Earth’s surface and produce global-scale ozone depletion, with enhanced […]

Texas A&M University – The Continuing Risk of Nuclear War and How Physicists, Acting as Citizen-scientists, Can Help Reduce It

Texas A&M University

Colloquium Abstract With the end of the Cold War, the public, activists and our government thought the danger from nuclear weapons was on a glide path to zero and those concerned about existential threats turned to other issues, notably global warming. Unfortunately, we were wrong.  Russia has made nuclear threats to keep NATO from intervening against […]

Pennsylvania State University – How to Avert the Coming Arms Race

Hallowell Building: Department of Nuclear Engineering

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 […]

How to Avert the Coming Arms Race – University of Hawai’i

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]