Review and reflections following a conference with no agreed substantive outcome.

Political memoirs and interviews with Iranian officials and nuclear scientists tell a story of how and why Iran became nuclear.

Conclusions drawn from the growth and removal of low-yield nuclear weapons in Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

The capacity of U.S. society to confront nuclear risks, viewed though a planned geological repository for radioactive waste.

Probing public opinion on the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.

Unpacking the current transition in European policy and debates on defense and security.

Reflections on the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and its ramifications for future diplomacy.

A new survey study teasing apart public opinion on nuclear disarmament and deterrence.

The implications of a major shift in Chana's nuclear launch strategy.

Technical advancements have improved capabilities in monitoring for nuclear testing. What happens when policy makers disagree with expert conclusions, or seek to make up their own reality?

Identifying the elements of political economy, apart from strategic postures and doctrines, that play into nuclear weapon spending choices.

Investigating the contamination potential of DRC's cobalt boom.

Overview and updates on international diplomatic efforts to assure the peaceful use of outer space.

What was the relationship between American Cold War scientists, nuclear arms control, and disarmament?

A critical evaluation of the US resumption of plutonium pit production

Investigating the failures of American governments to halt DPRK weapons developments.

Reanalyzing structures for understanding nuclear threats and postures.

Surveying the challenges for the nuclear stockpile modernization program.

Cities have always been the central targets for nuclear weapons, and also the source of impactful activism.

The role that choices presented play in responses to nuclear emergencies.

The small university town of Princeton's interventions in the Manhattan Project.

Assessing the implications of the 12-day war on Iran's future nuclear strategy.

Reporting on the key issues raised and ignored at the 2025 Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee.

Marking 70 years since the Russel-Einstein Manifesto, and discussing Pugwash's current challenges and opportunities with the new secretary general.

An investigation into Iran's current nuclear file and the current critical juncture in U.S.-Iran relations.

Examining US population protection policies of the 1970s to see how leaders leveraged vulnerability gap narratives to advance diverse political and strategic objectives.

A case study to illuminate how the technical complexities of advanced weapon systems defy prediction in real-world situations and produce irreducible uncertainties for counterforce positions.

Examining new sources to give a comprehensive account of China's recent nuclear weapons development.

Investigating the anti-democratic changes that arise from the pursuit of nuclear weapons.

All Chinese nuclear tests of the past 60 years have taken place in the Uyghur homeland of southeastern Xinjiang. How does the development and maintenance of this test site connect China's nuclear history with the current situation in that region?

What does irreversibility mean when applied to nuclear disarmament, and what are the challenges involved?

What are the concerns and challenges for nuclear weapon policies under the second Trump administration?

What lessons can be learned from the history of nuclear activism to inform effective citizen engagement today?

What alternatives to extended nuclear deterrence might be available to Ukraine following the war?

How are Australian activists mobilizing in response to various risks posed by AUKUS?

How vulnerable are silo-based missiles to attack by modern conventional weapons?

Exploring the history and impact of the German Nuclear Archaeology Lab at Aachen.

Climatic effects from nuclear weapons use raise questions of discrimination and proportionality which are key to the laws of war. What are the implications for nuclear weapon states?

What are the implications of the ongoing U.S.-Saudi talks on a nuclear deal that may support uranium enrichment technology and nuclear power transfer to Saudi Arabia?

China has pledged not to use nuclear weapons first under any circumstances and is urging other nuclear weapon states to make the same commitment. Can such a treaty be substantive and verifiable?

Will the production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) make nuclear power more efficient and can it be used to make nuclear explosive devices?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the first phase of the National Academies study that aims to asses nuclear war and nuclear terrorism risks?

What is driving the modernization and the build-up of the Chinese nuclear arsenal?

Why are rockets, missiles and drones so effective at coercing targeted states, and how do they damage their strategic aims?

If a nuclear escalation is avoided, how will Russia and the U.S. resume their dialogue on arms control after the conflict in Ukraine?

What is the difference between dual-use and dual purpose space systems, how to define space weapons and how to regulate them?

The U.S. Department of Defense is the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. How can the military revise its grand strategy to break the link between national security and fossil fuels?

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is on a mission of sharing nuclear knowledge while seeking to deter nuclear weapon proliferation. How does it confront such a counterintuitive mandate?

How does the emerging nuclear age differ from earlier periods of nuclear competition and what key drivers and dynamics shape this more complex nuclear environment?

How developments of new sensors and uncrewed undersea vehicles infused with artificial intelligence algorithms impact anti-submarine warfare and the survivability of ballistic missile submarines?

How do psychology and human emotions influence decisions of leaders of nuclear weapon states, including the use of nuclear threats and shaping of nuclear strategy?

The Hanford Site opened in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, created to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Today, it is the most expensive environmental cleanup job in the world and the most toxic place in America.

Indigenous perspectives may offer an alternative imagination of security based on justice to contest the dominance of deterrence and militarism.

What are the next steps towards the prohibition of the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons, and how such prohibition could be made unconditional, uniform and legally binding?
 

How did the Italian community of physicists led by Edoardo Amaldi contribute to nuclear disarmament and peace during the Cold War?

Russia is no longer participating in the New START nuclear arms control treaty. What is the future of US-Russian strategic arms control?

What are Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZs), what challenges has the African NWFZ faced and what is its significance within the larger nuclear order?

How a grassroots environmental movement against a nuclear fuel processing plant forced the Department of Energy to take notice and task a cleanup operation.

Can a new generation of remote sensing technologies, including satellite-based radar systems, detect and track Russian and Chinese mobile missile launchers?

What are the challenges to having a greater gender balance in forums dealing with arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, and how to operationalize a feminist foreign policy?

How does nuclear latency challenge nuclear non-proliferation and what are the views on the acquisition of nuclear weapons in Brazil?

Russia’s military failures in Ukraine are demonstrating a weakness of their conventional military power. This may result in a growing reliance on their nuclear arsenal, but should also make the United States and NATO re-evaluate the Russian security threat.

The new US National Defense Strategy is focused on increasing strategic rivalry with China in the Asia-Pacific and globally. How will this affect strategic stability and international security?

What has Richard Garwin learned over his long career and from his experiences of advising the government and bringing issues to the public?

What can antinuclear activism in the Cold War teach us about countering nuclear dangers today?

The history of six major accidents sheds light on political, social and cultural sources of the risks of nuclear power.

As the US and Iran struggle to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, what are the key issues and prospects for success or failure?

Do arms control measures increase US security and constrain arms racing, and what would be the implications of limiting missile defense development?

Indigenous students from the Nuclear Princeton project examine the harmful impacts on the Navajo community and environment of Princeton research.

The nuclear age has involved the radiation contamination of a global population, of bodies, and of lands powerless to prevent this exposure.

What steps can be taken to mitigate some of the many kinds of harms that war afflicts on civilians, and what lessons do current efforts to lessen civilian harm hold for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament policy?

What feasible changes in the principles, goals, and policy underlying nuclear strategy, doctrine, and force planning could be considered as part of the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review to reshape the purpose of and reduce the role of nuclear weapons?

What do China’s expanding nuclear forces and military space, cyber, and artificial intelligence capabilities and changes in its strategic posture mean for its relationship with the United States?

Verifying the denuclearization of North Korea could benefit from information not derived from classified sources or methods and available for civil society analysis to supplement inspections and build confidence.

Regimes for the control of weapons of mass destruction have been seen as important elements in the global order. This order is currently in transition, however, with possibly far reaching implications for the regimes.

At their June 2021 summit, Presidents Biden and Putin agreed that the United States and Russia will begin an integrated bilateral strategic stability dialogue to lay the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures.

The nuclear narratives accompanying nuclear weapons politics do not simply reflect nuclear policy contests but shape them, limiting how we can imagine our nuclear future.

The AUKUS deal to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia would be the first ever transfer of nuclear submarine technology and weapon-grade material for use in a military application to a non-nuclear weapons state.

The talk seeks to convey some of the lessons Dr. Cochran learned during his 40 years of public policy advocacy on issues related to civil nuclear power, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear arms control issues.

This talk examines the cultural, artistic, and literary impact of nuclear colonialism in French (occupied) Polynesia through the lens of the songs, paintings, and novels by Mā‘ohi activists.

The capabilities of hypersonic weapons remain uncertain and controversial. Based on a computational model of hypersonic missile flight, this talk examines the performance of this new type of weapons.

A commitment to dismantling systemic racism and becoming antiracist requires openness, willingness to listen and change, and, above all, accountability.

In January 2020, the Bulletin Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe.

This presentation will focus on the challenges and outlook for nuclear diplomacy with Tehran and Pyongyang, as seen from Moscow.

This presentation will provide a snapshot of the current state of affairs in finding and developing a nuclear waste disposal facility in Australia.

Examining the properties of current nuclear arsenals, scenarios of nuclear conflict, and calculations of the effects of nuclear explosions.

A photographic study of the land that served as the main testing site for American nuclear devices for four decades

While for some decades since the end of the Cold War debates about nuclear weapons policy receded in the public discourse, the debate has been renewed by a number of controversial steps by the Trump administration as well its challenging long-standing doctrines in the Nuclear Posture Review.

It may seem obvious that the atomic bombs ended World War II. Yet at least four other developments helped persuade Japanese leaders to surrender. Understanding the Japanese side of the story advances us well beyond American-centered analyses.

What can be learned about the nuclear devices designed and tested in North Korea? This talk will review three distinct streams of evidence: seismic and other observational data, insider accounts, and official North Korean statements. Comparing the three streams provides a largely consistent picture.

Looking at nuclear energy diplomacy as a means to build new geopolitical partnerships offers a way to understand the Middle East’s emerging nuclear landscape, proliferation potential, and the implications of nuclear partnership by states in the region with great powers.

Andrew Brown explores how James Chadwick quietly undermined the effort of General Leslie Groves, the head of the U.S. Manhattan Project, to create a post-war American nuclear monopoly.

Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom’s Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War.

Adam Higginbotham speaks about his definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster; a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.

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