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University of Michigan – Actionable Ideas for Nuclear Threat Reduction

University of Michigan

Abstract  This talk provides a brief overview of the resurgent role of nuclear weapons in national security strategies, the threat that it poses to the public, and potential risk mitigation approaches. Recent events, including U.S. withdrawal from arms control treaties and the pursuit of new nuclear weapons capabilities in the nine nuclear weapons states, suggest …

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Ohio University – A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists

Ohio University

Abstract The 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 …

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University of Wisconsin-Madison – Actionable Ideas for Nuclear Threat Reduction

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract  This talk provides a brief overview of the resurgent role of nuclear weapons in national security strategies, the threat that it poses to the public, and potential risk mitigation approaches. Recent events, including U.S. withdrawal from arms control treaties and the pursuit of new nuclear weapons capabilities in the nine nuclear weapons states, suggest …

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Indiana University Bloomington – Restraining the New Nuclear Arms Race: What Scientists and Engineers Can Do to Preserve Nuclear Arms Control

Colloquium Abstract  We live in an increasingly dangerous nuclear world marked by the abandonment of hard-won arms-control and nonproliferation agreements; the modernization at a cost of trillions of dollars of existing nuclear arsenals; the development of new types of strategic weapons; and threats to use nuclear weapons that risk escalation to large-scale nuclear war. This …

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Virtual Discussion Session: U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control Diplomacy

To provide more context on the U.S.-Russia arms control and effective advocacy for nuclear threat reduction, we held a special meeting on March 3, 2023 for members of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. Opening remarks: Daryl G. Kimball (Executive Director, The Arms Control Association) Tara Drozdenko (Director of Global Security Program, The Union …

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Global Famine After Nuclear War

National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

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 …

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Ohio University – A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists

25 South Green Drive, Athens, Ohio 45701 Water Hall 145

Colloquium Abstract The 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 …

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – 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 …

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Illinois State University – A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists

Colloquium Abstract The 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 …

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Georgetown University – The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce It)

Colloquium Abstract While 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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