Cornell University – Actionable Ideas for Nuclear Threat Reduction
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Ohio State University – How to Avert the Coming Arms Race
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State UniversityAbstract 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 […]
The Nuclear Threat – McGill University
McGill University, Department of PhysicsAbstract The deployment of thousands of nuclear weapons around the world creates a potential threat to civilization as we know it. This is a matter for physicists to address, not […]
Reducing the Risks of Nuclear Weapons – University of Zurich
Physics Department, University of ZurichAbstract After a long period of post-Cold War stability, the risks posed by nuclear weapons are increasing sharply, marked by the invasion of Ukraine, a nuclear generation of Russian nuclear […]
The Increasing Risks of Nuclear Weapons – ETH Zurich
Abstract After 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 […]
Western Michigan University – The Continuing Risk of Nuclear War
Abstract With 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 […]
Uppsala University – Reducing the Risks of Nuclear Weapons
Abstract After 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 […]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility – Oppenheimer and the Legacy of the Manhattan Project: Current Challenges in Nuclear Arms Control
Abstract 80 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 […]
College of William and Mary – The Continuing Risk of Nuclear War
Abstract With 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 […]
Reforming nuclear weapons policy, plutonium problems, and how physicists can help – Portland State University
Abstract Physicists invented nuclear weapons over seventy-five years ago. Today, they still threaten humanity with catastrophe and, recently, this risk has been increasing. The US has over 1,500 deployed nuclear […]