Carnegie Corporation Awards Science and Global Security Program a $750,000 Grant to Confront Rising Nuclear Weapon Threats

The Program on Science and Global Security(external link) (SGS) has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 core support grant by Carnegie Corporation of New York. This new investment will support SGS in using scientific, technical, and policy research, education, and outreach to advance effective policies for nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, and a safer and more peaceful world free of nuclear weapons.

“We’re grateful to the Carnegie Corporation for this new grant and for its sustained and generous support for our work,” said Zia Mian, senior research scholar and co-director of SGS. “This grant enables SGS to develop new ideas and approaches, and to build alternative perspectives to engage with the increasingly dangerous strategic competition, nuclear arsenal modernization, and arms racing we witness today involving the United States and the other eight nuclear armed states.”

As a university-based program, SGS, housed within the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, is committed to maintaining and strengthening its mission of educating and training a new and more diverse generation of scientists and scholars in nuclear weapon-relevant policy analysis and policy engagement. Through its 50 years of research, education, and training, SGS has helped create an international network of researchers working in academia, government, international organizations, and NGOs working on nuclear policy around the world.

SGS also is committed to building and sustaining institutions and initiatives for collective action on reforming nuclear weapons policies and charting a path to nuclear disarmament. Its ongoing efforts include:

• Science & Global Security(external link), the leading peer-reviewed technical journal for nuclear arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation policy.
• The XR + Robot Deck, a pioneering virtual reality and robotics laboratory for research and teaching on nuclear policy issues.
• An experimental disarmament science laboratory in Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
• A research partnership with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for SGS-designed experiments on nuclear verification.
• The International Panel on Fissile Materials(external link), a group of independent experts from 16 countries established in 2006 to work on policies to end production and use of nuclear weapon materials.
• The Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction(external link), an initiative founded by SGS in 2019 to provide scientists opportunities to learn about and engage with nuclear arms control policy.
• The Scientific Advisory Group of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first UN treaty-mandated international scientific body to advance nuclear disarmament.
• The Princeton School for Science & Global Security(external link), an annual event that brings next-generation scientists and engineers from around the world to Princeton to learn about nuclear weapons policy.