July 31, 2025
From July 14-16, 2025, on the 80th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Nobel Laureates and nuclear experts convened at the University of Chicago for the Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The Assembly produced and endorsed a list of thirteen achievable policy recommendations, calling on world leaders to take immediate and meaningful action.
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) was represented by Distinguished Professor of Practice Dr. Siegfried Hecker, East Asia Nonproliferation Program Director Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, Eurasia Nonproliferation Program Director Dr. Hanna Notte, and Professor of the Practice Dr. Stephen Herzog.
The Assembly’s Declaration––endorsed by 100 Nobel Laureates and dozens of nuclear experts––urges nations to reaffirm the moratorium on nuclear testing, enhance human oversight of nuclear command and control, re-enter into arms control negotiations to replace the New START Treaty, and forgo massive investments in strategic missile defense. The final recommendation calls on scientists, academics, civil society, and communities of faith to help create the necessary pressure to compel global leaders to implement nuclear risk reduction measures.
Nuclear Assembly for Nobel Laureates, July 14, 2025. (Photo by Jean Lachat)
