Events

Come and join us for our first meeting of the semester! We are continuing our theme of: The Future of Arms Control and the Nonproliferation Regime

Come and join us for this week's meeting, where we will brainstorm this semester's research project(s) and discuss contemporary issues in nuclear security policy.

Come and join us as Jake Hecla speaks to NPWG about OSINT. As always, snacks provided!

Join former California Governor Jerry Brown, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Co-chair and CEO, Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, and Dr. Bethany Goldblum, nuclear physicist and director of the Nuclear Policy Working Group at UC Berkeley, for an urgent conversation about today’s growing risk of nuclear use, as well as solutions that can bring us back from the brink. NTI’s Corey Hinderstein, former Department of Energy official and leader of its Iran Task Force, will moderate the event—which will include real-time audience voting and Q&A.

Amid increasingly tense relations with Russia and Iran, the advance of new technologies like cyber and artificial intelligence, and the persistent threat of terrorism, we face the highest risk of use of a nuclear weapon since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And according to theDoomsday Clock, which symbolizes the gravest threats to humankind, we’re now 100 seconds to midnight--closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in 1947. Like climate change, weapons of mass destruction pose an existential threat to the United States and the world.As we draw closer to the California primary and the 2020 election, it’s critical that voters educate themselves and demand that our leaders and candidates address today’s threats and the risks we will pass on to future generations.

Thursday, February 27th
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PT
The Boiler Room in the Hotel Shattuck Plaza,
Berkeley, CA

RSVP: https://howclosetodoomsday.eventbrite.com

About the Speakers

Gov. Brown, a UC Berkeley graduate, served as California's Governor from 1975-83 and again from 2011-19. While he was Governor, California established nation-leading targets to protect the environment and fight climate change. Brown currently serves as chair of the California-China Climate Institute housed at UC Berkeley, executive chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

Described by CQ Magazineas a “rock star physicist,” Dr. Moniz is a leader on reducing the existential risks posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, as well as climate change. As Energy Secretary, he negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement with then-Secretary of State John Kerry. In 2017, he took the helm of NTI, a nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on the reduction of nuclear and biological threats.

Dr. Bethany Goldblumis founder and director of the Nuclear Policy Working Group, a research-based educational programming effort that provides opportunities for students from a variety of fields to conduct multidisciplinary research on topics in nonproliferation and nuclear security. She also serves as executive director of the Nuclear Science & Security Consortium, a program to develop a new generation of laboratory-integrated nuclear experts.
The event is co-sponsored by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Nuclear Policy Working Group and is free and open to the public.

Light food and drinks will be provided.

Snacks will be provided as we work on this semester's project!

Snacks will be provided as we work on this semester's project!

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Snacks will be provided as Rebecca Krentz-Wee discusses the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification.

Snacks will be provided as we work on this semester's project!

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Join us as Andrew Reddie speaks on the 2020 NPT Review Conference.

Join us in celebrating our last meeting of the academic year!

Join us for the first NPWG meeting of the 2020 Fall Semester!  After welcomes and introductory icebreakers, we will be discussing nuclear modernization in preparation for our first speaker, Dr. Sheryl Hingorani!

Join us in welcoming Dr. Sheryl Hingorani, who will be presenting on the U.S. nuclear modernization program!
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Join us as we discuss nuclear modernization efforts in the United States and abroad!
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Join us in welcoming Dr. Frank Gavin, who will be presenting on his new book Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy!
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Join us as we discuss arms control, its history, implementation, and possible future, in preparation for our next speaker, Dr. Heather Williams.
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Join us as we welcome Dr. Heather Williams, who will be presenting "The Future of Arms Control: Great Power Competition and Emerging Technology"!
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Join us as we discuss current arms control efforts, with a focus on asymmetric arms control!

Join us as we discuss the New START Treaty, in preparation for our next speaker, Dr. Mona Dreicer.
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Join us as we welcome Dr. Mona Dreicer, who will be presenting "Negotiating the New START Treaty!
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Join us for our last meeting of the fall semester!  We will be going through end-of-semester business and hearing short presentations from our research groups on the New START treaty and arms control with China.