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SGS Virtual Seminar — May 11, 2022, 12:30 - 1:30 pm ET
May 11, 2022

The Nuclear Princeton Research Team will be sharing their work on an upcoming animated film called "Titration" at a virtual seminar hosted by the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS). This film will examine the impacts of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, how those impacts continued to be felt today, and the role of Princeton…

Princeton Research Day 2022
May 6, 2022

Nuclear Princeton Research Fellows Brooke Kennedy '23 and Travis…

Zia Mian Appointed to UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
Dec. 16, 2021

 

Zia Mian, a physicist and co-director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), has been appointed to the U.N. Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

Established in 1978, the 

Princeton Physicist Part of Study That Finds Rare Quasicrystal From Wreckage of First Atomic Bomb Test
May 28, 2021

Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt was part of a study that investigated the wreckage of the Trinity Test, the first atomic bomb test. The study found that the incredible heat and pressure created by the…

Inkstick: Nuclear Aesthetic A conversation with Thomas Dayzie from Nuclear Princeton by Molly Hurley
Feb. 12, 2021
I first met Thomas Dayzie at a webinar, hosted last year by Nuclear Princeton, meant to showcase the group’s work on often overlooked parts of America’s nuclear history. Thomas specifically focuses on the intersection of art and our nuclear legacy, and in his talk, he showcased some particular works by the late Japanese…
Indigenous Students at Princeton Explore Nuclear Age Legacies
Oct. 5, 2020

"The Program on Science and Global Security is supporting a new undergraduate student project to investigate the impacts of the nuclear age on Native Nations in the United States and Princeton’s role in helping shape this age. The project Nuclear Princeton: Indigenous Students’ Exploration of…

Nuclear Princeton: Indigenous scholarship and representation in an institution ‘not designed’ for Native students
Oct. 4, 2020

This article in the Daily Princetonian highlights Princeton's lack of support for Native students and how this project, Nuclear Princeton, is working to combat this injustice and empower Native students. 

Virtual Reality Project Lets World Leaders Experience Nuclear Crisis Decision Making
Feb. 24, 2020

Sharon Weiner, former Princeton Program on Science and Global Security postdoc and award winning national security scholar led an international team that conceptualized and designed a virtual reality (VR) experience which simulates presidential decision-making in a nuclear weapons crisis. It offers first-hand experience to participants on…

Princeton Science and Global Security Nuclear War Simulation
Sept. 6, 2019

Princeton Science and Global Security (SGS) developed a simulation of a possible nuclear war between the United States and Russia. This simulation, presented in video format, estimates more than 90 million casualties within the first few hours of the war. Due to the nature of nuclear weapons, slow violence fatalities from the…