Nuclear Risk - and How We Can Work to Reduce It - Pugwash

Nuclear Risk - and How We Can Work to Reduce It - Pugwash
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We have a very special talk this Wednesday from Pugwash on Nuclear Science Policy. The colloquium will provide a comprehensive overview of what nuclear weapons are, how physicists and others have strived to contain the risks, and new challenges posed by the spreading and modernising of nuclear weapons in our increasingly multipolar world.

90 years ago, while waiting to cross the road at Russell Square, the refugee physicist Leo Szilard had a thought that would unleash the awesome power locked inside the nucleus of an atom. Seven years later Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls wrote a secret memo to the British Government outlining the characteristics of a “super-bomb” based on Szilard’s idea. That memo led to the establishment of a top secret programme which would cross the Atlantic and build the world’s first nuclear weapon. One physicist at the heart of the project, Sir Józef Rotblat, had the moral courage to walk away from this research and spawn a movement of scientists that would play a central role in tempering, and ultimately reversing the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.

Today, those achievements are under threat like never before and we are again called upon to warn humanity of the special dangers posed by nuclear weapons. We will explain what these weapons are, how physicists and others have mobilised to contain them, and the new challenge to prevent their use in a multipolar world where the risk of proliferation is increasing and current nuclear armed states are modernising their arsenals with little regard to the new threats posed to or by these weapons.
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