Seminars & Events

SGS hosts a weekly seminar open to the Princeton University community and the public and occasional technical and policy workshops with a view to advancing scholarship and policy. The seminar features SGS research presentations and invited speakers who have studied or participated in security policy debates where technical issues and expertise have played an important role. View our past events here.

January 22, 2021

Richard Falk, The Long Struggle to Prohibit Nuclearism: From Hiroshima to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The entry into force on 22 January 2021 of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a dramatic step forward. Prohibition is but a stepping stone to phased and verified nuclear disarmament, alone capable of realizing the vision of a world freed from the menace of nuclear weapons.

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January 27, 2021

Michael Klare, A Strategy for Reducing the Escalatory Dangers of Emerging Technologies

Advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, cyberspace, remote sensing, and electronics are being put to military use before society understands the risks and can control this weaponization. This talk will offer a framework for restricting the military use of these technologies.

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February 3, 2021

Sarah Bidgood, US and Soviet Pursuit of Radiological Weapons and its Implications

Along with nuclear weapons, the United States and Soviet Union pursued radiological weapons during the 1940s and 1950s. The talk will explore how these programs emerged, what they reveal about military innovation in both the US and USSR, and how the weapons were abandoned.

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February 17, 2021

Daniel Deudney, Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics and the Ends of Humanity

Most thinking about space reflects geographic misperceptions, slanted geopolitics, misleading analogies and utopian anticipations. Actual space activities have increased the likelihood of nuclear war and amplified global closure and vulnerability. Further expansion should be limited.

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