In her lecture, “Deterrence, Nuclear Strategy, and the Realities of Human Choice” Professor Weiner discussed how U.S. nuclear strategy places decision makers in a quagmire.
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.
A new SGS-FAS report suggests a follow-on agreement to the 2010 New START treaty verifiably limiting deployments of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals that is set to expire in 2026 could be verified solely by remote sensing.
The grant will support a science-based assessment of the impact of emerging technologies for nuclear weapon risks, examining challenges and implications for arms control and disarmament.
On the 80th anniversary of the nuclear age, an SGS panel at the United Nations First Committee offered reflections on the past, present, and future of scientists’ engagement with nuclear weapons issues.
Sébastien Philippe, a visiting researcher at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Program on Science & Global Security (SGS), has been awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship.
SGS hosted Herbert Lin, senior research scholar at Stanford University, who delivered a lecture “Nuclear Weapons in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”
By combining adversarial resistance, real-time interception, and structured safeguards, the Asimov Box provides a robust defense against misuse of AI-driven robots.
Our research on nuclear fusion examines possible strategies to monitor nuclear fusion reactors and assess different plant designs with respect to their safeguardability and proliferation resistance.
Zia Mian, co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) was in conversation with acclaimed American artist and musician Laurie Anderson at an event on September 6, 2025 hosted by the Poster House, a gallery and educational space in New York.