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Read about recent publications, presentations and activities by SGS

  • SGS Researchers Participate in UN Workshop on Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security

    The workshop focused on what it might take to ensure that artificial intelligence is developed responsibly in a world of accelerating technological change, dual-use risks, and geopolitical uncertainty.

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  • Frank von Hippel Reflects on 50 Years of Anti-Nuclear Efforts

    Frank von Hippel, co-founder of SGS, recounts his life and career in nuclear policy in his memoir, "Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest."

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  • Frank von Hippel receives Göttingen Peace Prize 2025

    For his exceptional service and tireless commitment to peace and security, his outstanding contributions to scientific peace research, and his significant peace-building activities in the field of nuclear arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation.

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  • U.N. Approves SGS-Backed Global Study of Nuclear War

    Thanks in part to advocacy efforts by SGS, the United Nations will commission an international scientific study on the effects of nuclear war for the first time in more than three decades.

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  • SGS supports development of new code to assess missiles and missile defense systems

    The Missile Defense Footprint Calculation and Comparison code is an open-source software tool that can model missiles and interceptors and calculate footprints for different scenarios.

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  • SGS and the UN Resolution to Study the Effects of Nuclear War

    In November 2024 the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security supported a resolution that SGS helped initiate and develop mandating an international scientific study of the effects of nuclear war.

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  • SGS organizes 2024 Princeton School on Science and Global Security

    The School aims to train next-generation scientists and engineers from around the world in technical perspectives on understanding, reducing and ending the threat from nuclear weapons.

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  • Sébastien Philippe Testifies to French National Assembly on the Legacy of French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific

    SGS researcher Sébastien Philippe testified before the French National Assembly about his work on the legacy and impact of French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

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  • Sébastien Philippe Receives 2025 APS Burton Award

    For accurately estimating radiation doses from French and U.S. nuclear tests and effectively communicating these findings to the public, as well as assessing potential radiation from nuclear attacks on U.S. ICBM silos, demonstrating the importance of addressing scientific findings and consulting affected individuals.

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  • Alex Glaser Receives 2025 Leo Szilard Award

    For seminal scientific contributions and innovations to advance nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament verification and mentoring many students and young researchers over the years

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  • SGS hosts “Talking About The Fire” with Chris Thorpe on Friday, October 11, 2024

    SGS is hosting special one-time performance at Princeton University of Talking About the Fire on October 11, 2024

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  • SGS organizes exhibition “Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age”

    SGS organized a special five-week exhibition “Close Encounters: Facing the Bomb in a New Nuclear Age”, on display at the Bernstein Gallery in Robertson Hall, home of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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  • SGS holds Bruce Blair Memorial Lecture 2024

    The Program on Science and Global Security held the Bruce Blair Memorial Lecture 2024 on 19 September at Princeton University. A panel discussion featured authors Eric Schlosser and Annie Jacobson, and filmmaker and artist Smriti Keshari.

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  • Carnegie Corporation Awards SGS $750,000 Grant to Confront Rising Nuclear Weapon Threats

    The grants supports the work of SGS to advance effective policies for nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, and a safer and more peaceful world free of nuclear weapons.

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  • SGS Co-organizes a Panel Discussion and Workshop on Satellite Imagery in an Era of Global Crises, Surveillance, and Misinformation

    At a time when we think everything can be made visible, how do we know what we see is true? What are the opportunities and limits of satellite imagery in helping us make sense of humanitarian crises, extreme climate events, and armed conflicts?

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  • SGS organizes workshop on “Indian Country in the American Nuclear Age”

    Fifteen Native American scholars, activists and leaders joined Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) and other Princeton University researchers and students in May 2024 to participate in a workshop titled “Indian Country in the American Nuclear Age.” 

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  • SGS supports North America launch of The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023

    SGS and the Princeton Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment sponsored the Washington DC launch of the leading independent assessment of the status of the nuclear power industry worldwide.

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  • SGS organizes nuclear threat reduction workshop at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste

    As part of the international outreach work of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction, the workshop discussed new technical developments and how the physics community can advocate for reducing the nuclear weapons threat.

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  • SGS organizes Princeton School on Science and Global Security 2023

    The mission of the School is to teach young scientists and engineers about the dangers of nuclear weapons, and prepare them to challenge deeply entrenched nuclear weapons policies.

     

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  • SGS Reports on Workshop on ‘Societal Verification’ in the 21st Century

    Published by the Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, the workshop report reflects on major issues for societal verification that emerged during the meeting. 

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  • SGS holds inaugural Bruce Blair Memorial Lecture

    SGS organized the inaugural Bruce Blair Memorial Lecture, the first in a series of lectures and activities honoring Bruce Blair and advancing understanding of the risks of nuclear weapons.

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  • SGS project “The Missiles on our Land” highlights risks of U.S. ICBM policy

    SGS-led project with Columbia’s Journalism School, Scientific American, and Nuclear Princeton exposes the risks and consequences of keeping and modernizing hundreds of nuclear missiles in silos in the Mid-West, including on Native American land.

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  • SGS VR Experience “The Nuclear Biscuit” Inspires Kurzgesagt Video "How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute"

    Inspired by the SGS VR experience The Nuclear Biscuit and supported by the SGS-based Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction, a new Kurzgesagt video had over two million views in the first 24 hours.

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  • SGS Maps Radioactive Fallout from U.S. Nuclear Weapon Tests, Beginning with July 1945 Trinity Test

    SGS study estimates radioactive contamination from U.S. tests in New Mexico and Nevada, and offers marker for the start of the Anthropocene.

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  • SGS China Dialogues

    SGS organized two initiatives on deepening understanding of US-China relations, aimed to facilitate technical and policy conversations on arms control, nonproliferation, strategic stability, and disarmament, as well as understand how China approaches nuclear weapon strategy and policy.

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  • SGS organizes a workshop on "The Emerging Technologies Race, Nuclear Weapons, and Global Security"

    To address challenges introduced by the weaponization of emerging technologies, SGS organized a workshop that brought together a group of scientists, experts, scholars and policy specialists from the U.S., Europe, China and the United Nations.

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  • SGS hosts public lecture by Amb. Elayne Whyte “The Power of the Powerless: Reflections on Practicing Diplomacy in the Early 21st Century”

    Whyte was President of the UN Conference in 2017 involving 124 states that negotiated and adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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  • SGS and the Scientific Advisory Group of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Three SGS researchers were appointed to the newly created scientific advisory group to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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  • SGS hosts public lecture by Amb. Alexander Kmentt, “Confronting the threat and use of nuclear weapons”

    Kmentt served as President of the 1st Meeting of States Parties of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, held in June 2022 in Vienna.

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  • SGS Brings Impactful Conversations on Physics, Nuclear Weapons to Princeton’s Campus

    Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the threats posed by nuclear weapons are as relevant as ever.
     

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  • SGS Participation in the Tenth Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

    Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security organized four events at the Tenth Review Conference of the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) held at the United Nations in New York.

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  • SGS at the First Meeting of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    SGS researchers were active participants in three meetings in Vienna from 18-23 June organized around the first meeting of states parties to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

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  • International Panel on Fissile Materials report proposes a global ban on the separation of plutonium

    The report argues for ending all separation of plutonium from spent nuclear fuel, whether for nuclear weapons or for civilian purposes.

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  • Notes on Nuclear Weapons & Intersectionality in Theory and Practice

    Fostering a conversation on how dismantling nuclear weapons requires dealing with the political, economic, and cultural scaffolding that have facilitated its existence for seventy-seven years.

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  • Virtual Reality Project on Nuclear Threats to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival

    The project uses innovative documentary storytelling and unprecedented virtual production techniques to recreate the lived experiences of people in Hawaii who, for 38 minutes, had to react and make impossible decisions in the face of a perceived imminent nuclear threat.

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  • Korean and Japanese translations published of Plutonium: How Nuclear Power's Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare

    Co-authored by Frank von Hippel; Masafumi Takubo, a leading Japanese expert on nuclear-energy policy; and Jungmin Kang, former Chairman of South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission.

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  • Sharon Weiner testifies to Senate Armed Services Committee on U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Policy and Strategy
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  • Princeton School on Science and Global Security to be held on 21-24 October 2021

    Participants from the 2019 UCS Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs, American university of Beirut. Photo courtesy, Ali Ahmad.

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  • SGS Releases Curriculum Resources on Countering Racism and Other Structures of Exclusion and Domination in Teaching and Research on Nuclear Issues

    SGS releases annotated bibliography exploring and countering racism and other forms of exclusion and domination in nuclear studies.

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  • Toxique: An Investigation of French Nuclear Testing in Polynesia

    Sébastien Philippe has co-authored with Tomas Statius the book, Toxique, on the human and environmental legacy of French nuclear tests in the Pacific.

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  • SGS Marks Entry Into Force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Faculty, researchers and students at SGS observed the entry into the force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on 22 January as a milestone in the long effort to address the danger of nuclear weapons.

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  • A New Structure for Security, Peace, and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf

    Seyed Hossein Mousavian of the Program on Science and Global Security has authored the new book A New Structure for Security, Peace, and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf.

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  • Bruce Blair Memorial Fund to support work at SGS

    The Simons Foundation Canada has supported the creation of The Bruce Blair Memorial Fund at Princeton University to support work at the Program on Science and Global Security on nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament.

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  • Indigenous Students at Princeton Explore Nuclear Age Legacies

    SGS is supporting a new undergraduate student project to investigate the impacts of the nuclear age on Native Nations in the United States and Princeton’s role in helping shape this age.

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  • Alex Glaser elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

    Glaser has been recognized “for major contributions to advancing the scientific and technical basis for nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament verification.”

     

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  • Statement by Scientists in Defense of Democracy

    A group of researchers at SGS in their individual capacities have initiated a public statement by scientists in defense of democracy in the United States.

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  • Ray Acheson receives Nuclear-Free Future Award 2020

    Ray Acheson wins the annual Nuclear-Free Future Award for 2020 in the category of “Solutions” for her analysis, research and advocacy across a range of disarmament and arms control issues and especially to abolish nuclear weapons.

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  • Princeton Virtual School on Science and Global Security

    From September through December 2020, SGS will be hosting the first Princeton Virtual School on Science and Global Security featuring invited talks with next-generation scientists and engineers from around the world.

     

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  • In Memoriam: Bruce G. Blair

    Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security mourns loss of Bruce G. Blair

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  • SGS Statement on Countering Systemic Racism and Other Structures of Exclusion and Domination

    SGS recognizes the impacts of systemic racism against black lives and supports efforts to counter the structures of exclusion and domination that work to deny and limit the dignity and rights of minoritized communities to participate freely and contribute fully and equally in society.

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  • A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation

    Seyed Hossein Mousavian of the Program on Science and Global Security and former SGS researcher Emad Kiyaei have co-authored the new book A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation.

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  • Plutonium: How Nuclear Power's Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare

    Frank von Hippel of the Program on Science and Global Security, Jungmin Kang, and Masafumi Takubo have co-authored the new book Plutonium: How Nuclear Power's Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare.

     

     

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  • Virtual Reality Project Lets World Leaders Experience Nuclear Crisis Decision Making

    Senior government officials, national security experts, and civil society leaders at the Munich Security Conference in Germany engaged with a pioneering virtual reality simulation of presidential decision-making in a nuclear weapons crisis developed by an international team led by Sharon Weiner.

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  • Sébastien Philippe elected to Executive Committee of American Physical Society’s Forum on Physics and Society

    He will be helping the Forum support early-career physicists and students to learn how to engage more effectively in issue-based advocacy locally, nationally, and internationally.

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  • On Nuclear Embeddedness and (Ir)Reversibility

    A new working paper by William Walker motivated by the observation that, beyond a certain stage, a state’s possession and use of nuclear weapons become embedded, highly resistant to pressure, entreaty and altered circumstance. Reversibility appears to give way to irreversibility.

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  • Frank Von Hippel: The Story of a Citizen Scientist’s Adventures in Nuclear Arms Control

    The Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament at Nagasaki University has published the first three installments of a series of interviews with Frank von Hippel.

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  • Ernesto Mané Named Among 100 Most Influential People of African Descent for 2019

    A global civil society initiative involving 62 countries as part of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent has selected Ernesto Mané of the Program on Science and Global Security as one of the 100 Most Influential People of African Descent under 40 years of age for 2019.

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  • Enabling implementation of the 2017 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Two new articles by SGS researchers provide technical and policy ideas to support the effective implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

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  • SGS project to build a diverse coalition of physicists to confront nuclear dangers

    The two-year grant by the American Physical Society (APS) Innovation Fund seeks to educate and re-engage the U.S. physics community on the globally important issue of the risk posed by nuclear weapons and the pressing need to reduce this threat.

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  • The End of Nuclear Warfighting: Moving to a Deterrence-Only Posture

    Bruce Blair published “The End of Nuclear Warfighting: Moving to a Deterrence-Only Posture -- An Alternative U.S. Nuclear Posture Review” to make the case for a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, no hair-trigger response, and elimination of most U.S.

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  • Tamara Patton presents on Nuclear Weapon Threats at the XR for Change Summit

    Tamara Patton presented a virtual reality project which seeks to reenergize public debate on the threats posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century being developed by SGS in collaboration with Games for Change, Archer's Mark and Atlas V.

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  • Zia Mian Receives 2019 Leo Szilard Award

    Zia Mian was named winner of the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2019 Leo Szilard Award, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society.

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