Departmental Colloquium - The Increasing Peril from Nuclear Arms: and how physicists can help reduce the threat
Date
Friday February 27, 20261:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
STI AStewart Prager,
Princeton University
Abstract
The danger from nuclear weapons is increasing, with a new nuclear competition race underway, a deterioration of the multi-decade arms control regime, and new destabilizing technologies. This talk will overview nuclear weapons and their effects, the current critical situation, feasible steps to reduce the nuclear threat, and a new project initiated to engage physical scientists in advocacy for nuclear threat reduction.
Timbits, coffee, tea will be served in STI A before the colloquium.
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