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."

SGS team members and colleagues present at the 2025 NPT Preparatory Committee

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.

SGS researchers participated and presented their research at the Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP), taking place from 3 to 7 March 2025 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

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.

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.

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.

Readings included discussions on psychological mechanisms driving perceptions, attitudes, feelings and behaviors in response to the risks from nuclear war.

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.

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