Public Lecture: "Threats from Nuclear Weapons and Materials"

The Vancouver Institute presents The Simons Foundation lecture with Professor Frank von Hippel, Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University.

Saturday, October 15, 2016
8:15pm
Lecture Hall No.2,
Woodward Instructional Resources Centre
The University of British Columbia

This event is free and open to the public.

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Prof. von Hippel, a nuclear physicist, co-founded and co-chaired for three decades what is now Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security. During 1983-90, he worked with President Gorbachev’s science advisor, Evgenyi Velikhov, to develop a number of successful initiatives to end nuclear testing, end the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for weapons, and eliminate excess weapons materials. In 2006, Professor von Hippel co-founded the non-governmental International Panel on Fissile Materials. He has advised U.S. Administrations and Congress on nuclear security issues since the Carter Administration. During 1993-4, he served as Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and played a major role in developing U.S.- Russian cooperative nuclear initiatives.