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Read about recent publications, presentations and activities by SGS

  • 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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