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SUMMARY:U.S. Budget for FY24 and Advocacy for Nuclear Threat Reduction
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThis webinar discusses highlights of the U.S. budget for nuclear weapons for fiscal year 2024\, in particular the possibility of additional funds for new nuclear weapon systems including nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missiles. \nThe speakers include\n– Shannon Bugos\, Senior Policy Analyst\, The Arms Control Association\n– Hans Kristensen\, Director\, Nuclear Information Project\, Federation of American Scientists \nADDITIONAL RESOURCES:  \n\nShannon Bugos’ Presentation Slides (PowerPoint)\nHans Kristensen’s Presentation Slides (PDF)\n\nRelated: \nAdvocacy: Say no to new weapon systems!
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/u-s-budget-for-fy24-and-advocacy-for-nuclear-threat-reduction/
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SUMMARY:Columbia University - Dismantling the Nuclear Doomsday Machine: Scientists\, the Bomb\, and the Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract  \nEighty years ago\, physicists first worked out what it would take to build a simple nuclear weapon and the immediate effects of its use. Five years later\, theory and experiment became devastating facts as the United States built\, tested\, and then used the first nuclear weapons to destroy cities. Today\, there are nine nuclear armed states and over 13\,000 nuclear weapons in the world. The nuclear-armed states are developing or modernizing their arsenals\, easing constraints on when these weapons might be used\, and pursue policies that risk accidental nuclear war. The hard-won international arrangements intended to halt\, reverse and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons programs are unraveling. Russia’s leader has made nuclear threats in the context of the war against Ukraine. One potentially hopeful development\, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons\, has elicited opposition rather than support from the nine nuclear-armed states. This talk will look at what role scientists have played in the past and can play today in helping address the challenge of reducing and eliminating the threat from nuclear weapons in the United States and globally\, it also will introduce the new Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. \nAbout the Speaker  \nDr. Zia Mian is a physicist and co-director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security\, part of the School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include nuclear arms control\, non-proliferation\, disarmament\, and policies for a safer and more peaceful world. He is co-editor of the journal Science & Global Security\, co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials\, and a co-founder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. He received the 2014 Linus Pauling Legacy Award\, the American Physical Society’s 2019 Leo Szilard Award\, and in 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He serves on the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament\, and on the boards of the Arms Control Association and of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is a co-founder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/columbia-university-dismantling-the-nuclear-doomsday-machine-scientists-the-bomb-and-the-challenges-of-nuclear-disarmament/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Virtual Training Session: Engaging Members of Congress on Nuclear Issues
DESCRIPTION:On March 29\, at 10:30 AM EDT\, the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction hosted a virtual training session to discuss tools and skills for advocacy effective engagement with members of Congress. \nThis session included remarks by the panelists (recording below)\, followed by an open discussion between the Coalition’s experts and members. \nPanelists: \n\nDenise Duffield (The Back from the Brink Campaign)\nLaura Grego (The Union of Concerned Scientists)\nSean Meyer (The Back from the Brink Campaign)\nStephen Young (The Union of Concerned Scientists)
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/virtual-training-session-engaging-members-of-congress-on-nuclear-issues/
CATEGORIES:Training Sessions
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SUMMARY:Texas A&M University - The Continuing Risk of Nuclear War and How Physicists\, Acting as Citizen-scientists\, Can Help Reduce It
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nWith 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 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine\, and China has decided to greatly increase its nuclear forces in the face of a potential war with the United States over Taiwan. It is therefore necessary to educate ourselves anew about the dangers and policy options that could reduce them and then\, for those of us with an activist inclination\, to help more members of Congress understand the issues and the options. To this end\, the American Physical Society helped launch a Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction that is now an independent organization with a membership of about one thousand that would welcome concerned nuclear engineers as well. \nAbout the Speaker  \nFrank 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/texas-am-university-the-continuing-risk-of-nuclear-war-and-how-physicists-acting-as-citizen-scientists-can-help-reduce-it/
LOCATION:Texas A&M University
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:San Francisco State University- Global Famine after Nuclear War
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nA 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 ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface. The changes in temperature\, precipitation\, and sunlight from the climate model simulations\, applied to crop models show that these perturbations would reduce global agricultural production of the major food crops for a decade. The direct effects on people of nuclear war would be horrific\, with blast\, fires\, and radioactivity killing millions of people\, but the indirect effects on the food supply could kill 15-20 times as many people. A war between India and Pakistan could kill 1 to 2 billion people from starvation\, and a war between the U.S. and Russia could kill more than 5 billion people. My current research project\, being conducted jointly with scientists from the University of Colorado\, Columbia University\, Louisiana State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research\, is examining in detail\, with city firestorm and global climate models\, various possible scenarios of nuclear war and their impacts on agriculture and the world food supply. The greatest nuclear threat still comes from the United States and Russia. Even the reduced arsenals that remain in 2023 due to the New START Treaty threaten the world with nuclear winter. The world as we know it could end any day as a result of an accidental nuclear war between the United States and Russia. As a result of international negotiations pushed by civil society led by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)\, and referencing our work\, the United Nations passed a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons on July 7\, 2017. On December 10\, 2017\, ICAN accepted the Nobel Peace Prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” How soon will pressure from the 86 and counting nations who have ratified the nuclear ban treaty get the United States and the other eight nuclear nations to sign this treaty? The Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction is working to make that happen. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Alan Robock is a distinguished professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University\, associate editor of the journal Reviews of Geophysics\, a former Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\, and a former Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines\, and has been researching the climatic and agricultural impacts of nuclear war for the past 40 years.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/san-francisco-state-university-global-famine-after-nuclear-war/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Georgia Institute of Technology - The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: And How Physicists can Help Reduce the Threat
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nWith 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 the American Physical Society to engage physical scientists in advocacy for nuclear threat reduction. \nAbout the Speaker \nStewart Prager is professor emeritus of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University\, an affiliated faculty with the Program on Science and Global Security\, a co-founder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction\, and former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Previously\, while professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, he directed the Madison Symmetric Torus experiment and the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas. His research has been in plasma physics and fusion energy\, although his recent focus is on nuclear threat reduction.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/georgia-institute-of-technology-the-increasing-peril-from-nuclear-arms-and-how-physicists-can-help-reduce-the-threat/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Brigham Young University – The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce the Threat)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nWith 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 physical scientists in advocacy for nuclear threat reduction. \nAbout the Speaker \nStewart Prager is professor emeritus of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University\, an affiliated faculty with the Program on Science and Global Security\, a co-founder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction\, and former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Previously\, while professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison\, he directed the Madison Symmetric Torus experiment and the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas. His research has been in plasma physics and fusion energy\, although his recent focus is on nuclear threat reduction.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/brigham-young-university-the-increasing-peril-from-nuclear-arms-and-how-physicists-can-help-reduce-the-threat/
LOCATION:Brigham Young University
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230322
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SUMMARY:Georgetown University - The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce It)
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nWhile 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 constructively engaged policymakers and their communities to help reduce nuclear dangers. This talk will explain the current nuclear crisis\, provide feasible remedies\, and introduce a new project created to help physicists once again get involved. \nAbout the Speaker  \nDr. 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 Nuclear Security Fellowship at the Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy at MIT. Dr. Grego serves on the American Physical Society’s (APS) Panel on Public Affairs as the representative of the Forum on Physics and Society and serves on the steering committee of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. She is an associate editor for the journal Science and Global Security\, and a 2021 Fellow of the APS and a recipient of the 2022 APS Leo Szilard Award. Dr. Grego focuses her analysis and advocacy on missile defense\, outer space security\, and nuclear weapons. She has authored or co-authored numerous papers on a range of topics\, including cosmology\, space security\, and missile defense\, and has testified before Congress and addressed the UN General Assembly and the UN Conference on Disarmament on security issues. Before joining UCS\, Dr. Grego was a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics at the California Institute of Technology\, and a B.S. in physics and astronomy at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/georgetown-university-the-growing-danger-of-nuclear-weapons-and-how-physicists-can-help-reduce-it/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230322
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SUMMARY:Illinois State University – A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nThe 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 130\,000 employees produced the first nuclear fission weapons during 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. 75 years later\, despite enormous international efforts to create an effective system of nuclear arms control agreements that seek to limit nuclear weapons technology to the initial nuclear powers\, knowledge and technology have further proliferated. Today nine countries possess nuclear weapons. \nAlarmingly important arms control treaties have been challenged also by leading nuclear weapon states: The United States and Russia have ended the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty. Failure in the negotiations for an extension of the New START treaty was avoided only at the last moment. The United States has withdrawn from the JCPOA (the Iran Nuclear Deal). Both the United States and Russia have withdrawn from the Open Skies Arms Control Treaty. \nThe colloquium will review possible 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 over the past 70 years. We will briefly review challenges different arms control agreements have been facing in the recent past. Some focus will be placed on the Iran Nuclear Deal\, an agreement that aims to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Iran. We will discuss the recent history\, including the US withdrawal in 2018 and current efforts to re-negotiate the agreement. \nAbout the Speaker \nProfessor 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/illinois-state-university-a-case-study-in-nuclear-proliferation-the-iran-nuclear-deal-and-the-responsibility-of-physicists/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230316
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230317
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Global Famine after Nuclear War
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nA 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 ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface. The changes in temperature\, precipitation\, and sunlight from the climate model simulations\, applied to crop models show that these perturbations would reduce global agricultural production of the major food crops for a decade. The direct effects on people of nuclear war would be horrific\, with blast\, fires\, and radioactivity killing millions of people\, but the indirect effects on the food supply could kill 15-20 times as many people. A war between India and Pakistan could kill 1 to 2 billion people from starvation\, and a war between the U.S. and Russia could kill more than 5 billion people. My current research project\, being conducted jointly with scientists from the University of Colorado\, Columbia University\, Louisiana State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research\, is examining in detail\, with city firestorm and global climate models\, various possible scenarios of nuclear war and their impacts on agriculture and the world food supply. The greatest nuclear threat still comes from the United States and Russia. Even the reduced arsenals that remain in 2023 due to the New START Treaty threaten the world with nuclear winter. The world as we know it could end any day as a result of an accidental nuclear war between the United States and Russia. As a result of international negotiations pushed by civil society led by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)\, and referencing our work\, the United Nations passed a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons on July 7\, 2017. On December 10\, 2017\, ICAN accepted the Nobel Peace Prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” How soon will pressure from the 86 and counting nations who have ratified the nuclear ban treaty get the United States and the other eight nuclear nations to sign this treaty? The Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction is working to make that happen. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Alan Robock is a distinguished professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University\, associate editor of the journal Reviews of Geophysics\, a former Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\, and a former Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines\, and has been researching the climatic and agricultural impacts of nuclear war for the past 40 years.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-global-famine-after-nuclear-war/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230311
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SUMMARY:Ohio University -  A Case Study in Nuclear Proliferation: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Responsibility of Physicists
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nThe 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 130\,000 employees produced the first nuclear fission weapons during 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. 75 years later\, despite enormous international efforts to create an effective system of nuclear arms control agreements that seek to limit nuclear weapons technology to the initial nuclear powers\, knowledge and technology have further proliferated. Today nine countries possess nuclear weapons. \nAlarmingly important arms control treaties have been challenged also by leading nuclear weapon states: The United States and Russia have ended the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty. Failure in the negotiations for an extension of the New START treaty was avoided only at the last moment. The United States has withdrawn from the JCPOA (the Iran Nuclear Deal). Both the United States and Russia have withdrawn from the Open Skies Arms Control Treaty. \nThe colloquium will review possible 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 over the past 70 years. We will briefly review challenges different arms control agreements have been facing in the recent past. Some focus will be placed on the Iran Nuclear Deal\, an agreement that aims to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Iran. We will discuss the recent history\, including the US withdrawal in 2018 and current efforts to re-negotiate the agreement. \nAbout the Speaker \nProfessor 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/ohio-university-a-case-study-in-nuclear-proliferation-the-iran-nuclear-deal-and-the-responsibility-of-physicists-2/
LOCATION:25 South Green Drive\, Athens\, Ohio 45701\, Water Hall 145
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Global Famine After Nuclear War
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract \nA 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 ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface. The changes in temperature\, precipitation\, and sunlight from the climate model simulations\, applied to crop models show that these perturbations would reduce global agricultural production of the major food crops for a decade. The direct effects on people of nuclear war would be horrific\, with blast\, fires\, and radioactivity killing millions of people\, but the indirect effects on the food supply could kill 15-20 times as many people. A war between India and Pakistan could kill 1 to 2 billion people from starvation\, and a war between the U.S. and Russia could kill more than 5 billion people. My current research project\, being conducted jointly with scientists from the University of Colorado\, Columbia University\, Louisiana State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research\, is examining in detail\, with city firestorm and global climate models\, various possible scenarios of nuclear war and their impacts on agriculture and the world food supply. The greatest nuclear threat still comes from the United States and Russia. Even the reduced arsenals that remain in 2023 due to the New START Treaty threaten the world with nuclear winter. The world as we know it could end any day as a result of an accidental nuclear war between the United States and Russia. As a result of international negotiations pushed by civil society led by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)\, and referencing our work\, the United Nations passed a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons on July 7\, 2017. On December 10\, 2017\, ICAN accepted the Nobel Peace Prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” How soon will pressure from the 86 and counting nations who have ratified the nuclear ban treaty get the United States and the other eight nuclear nations to sign this treaty? The Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction is working to make that happen. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Alan Robock is a distinguished professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University\, associate editor of the journal Reviews of Geophysics\, a former Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\, and a former Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines\, and has been researching the climatic and agricultural impacts of nuclear war for the past 40 years.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-global-famine-after-nuclear-war/
LOCATION:National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center\, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\, Livermore\, California
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Virtual Discussion Session: U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control Diplomacy
DESCRIPTION: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. This session included remarks by the panelists (recording below)\, followed by an open discussion between the Coalition’s experts and members. \n  \n \nSpeakers: \n\nDaryl G. Kimball (Executive Director\, The Arms Control Association)\nTara Drozdenko (Director of Global Security Program\, The Union of Concerned Scientists)\nFrank A. von Hippel (Senior Research Physicists and Professor Emeritus\, Princeton University)
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/virtual-discussion-session-us-russianarms-control-diplomacy/
CATEGORIES:Discussion Sessions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230119
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SUMMARY:Indiana University Bloomington - Restraining the New Nuclear Arms Race: What Scientists and Engineers Can Do to Preserve Nuclear Arms Control
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Abstract  \nWe 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 talk highlights some current and emerging nuclear weapon issues and discusses examples of policy analysis and research where contributions from scientists and engineers could be particularly valuable and timely in advancing efforts to mitigate nuclear weapon risks. The talk also outlines the goals and work by the new Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction\, which seeks to inform and mobilize the physics community on nuclear arms control and to offer avenues for scientists to take action in the years ahead. \nAbout the Speaker \nAlex Glaser is an associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He is the co-director of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security and serves on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board\, which sets the hands of the Doomsday Clock. Foreign Policy named Glaser one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 for his work on nuclear warhead verification. Glaser holds a PhD in Physics from Darmstadt University and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/indiana-university-bloomington-restraining-the-new-nuclear-arms-race-what-scientists-and-engineers-can-do-to-preserve-nuclear-arms-control/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T130000
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CREATED:20221027T160848Z
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SUMMARY:New Developments in International Treaties on Nuclear Weapons: the NPT and the TPNW
DESCRIPTION: \nThe 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)\, also known as the Nuclear Ban Treaty\, went into force in January 2021. The treaty was negotiated with the purpose of strengthening the largely unimplemented disarmament pillar of the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The NPT has been signed by all but four nations. The Nuclear Ban Treaty has been signed by 91 nations and ratified by 68\, none of which are nuclear weapon states. This August saw the completion of the tenth NPT review conference\, a meeting held between the parties to the Treaty to review its progress. The conference exposed a rift between the nuclear weapon states and the non-nuclear weapon states on the lack of progress toward the NPT disarmament requirement. In this webinar\, we will cover these recent developments\, as well as the significance of\, and the issue of compatibility between the NPT and TPNW. \n\n\n\n\nPanelists \n\nZia Mian is a physicist and co-director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. He made presentations at the August 2022 NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference and at the first meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June.\nRandy Rydell is a former Senior Political Affairs Officer for the UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and a staff member working on nonproliferation in the United States Senate. Since his retirement in 2014\, he’s served as an Executive Advisor to Mayors for Peace\, managed by the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.\nRay Acheson has been providing analysis on arms control diplomacy at the United Nations and other international forums for over a decade as the head of Reaching Critical Will\, the disarmament program at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. They are currently a visiting researcher at Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security and a steering group member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/npt-tpnw-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220329
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T202802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T213623Z
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SUMMARY:The Nuclear Dimensions of the War in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Our March 28\, 2022 briefing examined Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the connection to nuclear weapons. Speakers included Alex Glaser (Princeton University)\, Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association)\, Pavel Podvig (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research – UNIDIR) and Laura Grego (MIT).
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/the-nuclear-dimensions-of-the-war-in-ukraine/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211204
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T204109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T214107Z
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SUMMARY:President Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review
DESCRIPTION:Our December 3\, 2021 briefing discussed the current status of the Biden Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and unpacked the biggest outstanding controversies and questions. Speakers included Jessica Sleight (Global Zero)\, Tom Collina (Ploughshares Fund)\, Laura Grego (MIT)\, and Charlotte Selton (APS).
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/president-bidens-nuclear-posture-review/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210914
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T213407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T213407Z
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SUMMARY:Nuclear Arms Racing
DESCRIPTION:Our September 13\, 2021 webinar discussed the dynamics of a nuclear arms race between the US\, Russia\, and China. Speakers include Steve Fetter (University of Maryland\, College Park)\, Laura Grego (Union of Concerned Scientists)\, Lyle Goldstein (Naval War College)\, and Pavel Podvig (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research – UNIDIR).
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/nuclear-arms-racing/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210714
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T213543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T213652Z
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SUMMARY:The Real World Effects of Nuclear Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Our July 13\, 2021 webinar examines the effects of nuclear weapons\, including the immediate and direct effects\, the impact on climate and food\, and how government war planners understand these effects. Speakers include Steve Fetter (University of Maryland\, College Park)\, Matthew McKinzie (Natural Resources Defense Council)\, Alan Robock (Rutger University)\, and Lynn Eden (Stanford University).
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/the-real-world-effects-of-nuclear-weapons/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210611
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T213804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T213804Z
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SUMMARY:Influencing Government Policy on Nuclear Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Our June 10\, 2021 webinar discussed how government policy for nuclear weapons is formed\, aspects of the current political landscape for nuclear arms control\, and current Coalition advocacy on no-first-use. Speakers include Laura Grego (Union of Concerned Scientists)\, Sharon Weiner (American University)\, Stephen Young (Union of Concerned Scientists)\, Stewart Prager (Princeton University)\, and Charlotte Selton (APS)
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/influencing-government-policy-on-nuclear-weapons/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210130
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T213904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T213904Z
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SUMMARY:Measures to Reduce the Nuclear Threat Under the Biden Administration
DESCRIPTION:Our January 29th\, 2021 webinar covers a range of policy topics including no-first-use\, launch-on-warning\, ICBM modernization\, and presidential sole authority. Speakers include Prof. Angela Di Fulvio (University of Illinois)\, Prof. Steve Fetter (University of Maryland)\, Dr. Laura Grego (Union of the Concerned Scientists)\, Prof. Zia Mian (Princeton University)\, Prof. Stewart Prager (Princeton University)\, and Prof. Frank von Hippel (Princeton University). \n\n 
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/measures-to-reduce-the-nuclear-threat-under-the-biden-administration/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200910
DTSTAMP:20260414T194821
CREATED:20221027T214000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T175606Z
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SUMMARY:Nuclear Testing and New START: Nuclear Threat Reduction in 2020 and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Our September 9\, 2020 panel discussion provides background on current nuclear policy topics and updates on relevant legislation. Panelists Prof. Steve Fetter (University of Maryland) and Prof. Frank Von Hippel (Princeton University) provide briefings on nuclear weapons testing and New START while Dr. Laura Grego (Union of Concerned Scientists) moderates a spirited Q&A session. Also featuring Prof. Stewart Prager (Princeton University)\, Dr. Sébastien Philippe (Princeton University)\, and Charlotte Selton (APS)
URL:https://physicistscoalition.org/events/nuclear-testing-and-new-start-nuclear-threat-reduction-in-2020-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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