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Thank you Toni Feder and Physics Today for the Q&A article. In a time of nuclear escalation... “the situation is much riskier than anytime during the Cold War, except maybe the Cuban missile crisis... The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever. ”



Yesterday Pugwash co-organized a webinar on "Autonomous Armageddon" featuring 2024 Nobel Laureates Geoffrey Hinton (physics) and Nihon Hidankyo (peace), with Melissa Parke IPPNW ICAN Connor Leahy youtube.com/live/vmz2DoMHB… #NuclearWeaponsand #AI

👏Brilliant discussion by Nobel prize AI & nuclear weapons experts yesterday about the dangers of combining these ‘god-like’ technologies. 📹Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?app=desk… Cc: @GeoffreyHinton IPPNW PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Pugwash Conferences Dr Ruth Mitchell FRACS (she/her/ella) Melissa Parke #NuclearBan

Apertura a cargo de Karen Hallberg➡️Hoy no es solo reflexionar sobre los riesgos existentes de las armas nucleares y las consecuencias de una guerra nuclear, sino también los riesgos emergentes de la incorporación de la #AI en los controles de comando de este tipo de armas. 🧵⤵️2/7


Karen Hallberg Pugwash Conferences ICAN Terumi Tanaka➡️En 2025 se cumplen 80 años desde Hiroshima y Nagasaki. En la actualidad, el riesgo del uso de armas nucleares es real e inminente. El tabu nuclear, la creencia de que las armas nucleares son inhumanas y no deben ser utilizadas jamas, está por romperse. 🧵⤵️3/7


On the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the #1972BWC BWC Implementation Support Unit Geneva Solutions Fifty years of the Biological Weapons Convention: a forgotten success worth remembering genevasolutions.news/articles/fifty… Interviews with James Revill of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and myself


Addressing #today the first conference of the #Iraq chapter of Pugwash Conferences in Slemani (Suleymaniya) commemorating the 37th anniversary of the #ChemicalWeapons attack against the #Kurdish town of #Halabja.


