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US Policy and Nuclear Threat Reduction Challenges in 2025
Abstract: This webinar will share expert views on current and emerging crises and opportunities for nuclear threat reduction efforts in the United States, and introduce the near-term nuclear policy advocacy goals of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. REGISTER HERE Topics and Speakers: Moderator – Zia Mian, Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security, and […]
University of Alberta | Oppenheimer and the Legacy of the Manhattan Project: Current Challenges in Nuclear Arms Control
Abstract Eighty 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 […]