Scientists and Nuclear Weapons Today

by

Prof Stewart C. Prager

10 Sept 2025, 5:00 pm (CEST)

virtual event - ZOOM only

please register at: https://tinyurl.com/S4PseminarSept2025

From the start of the nuclear era to today, scientists have filled two roles with nuclear weapons. Some scientists perform research to advance nuclear weapons. Others work to reduce the danger from, and to eliminate, such weapons. Perhaps the most prominent example of the former is stockpile stewardship which contains a wide array of scientific pursuits in several nuclear weapons states. We will examine the effect of the large US Stockpile Stewardship Program on global security. One current example of scientists working against nuclear weapons is the US-based Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction, which we will also describe.

Prof Stewart C. Prager is a professor emeritus of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, a member of the Program on Science and Global Security, and a co-founder of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. He is a plasma physicists, and previously was director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a US Department of Energy national lab.