Nobel Laureates and nuclear experts convened at the University of Chicago from July 14–16, 2025, on the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion at New Mexico’s Trinity Test, to deliver an urgent declaration urging global leaders to act on escalating nuclear threats.
Over two-and-a-half days, the “Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War†featured closed-door panels, public presentations, and expert discussions, including Nobel physicists, covering crises ranging from nuclear winter and AI-driven weapons systems to missile defense, strategic stability, proliferation, and near-nuclear disasters. Their assembled declaration calls for immediate, concrete policy steps: a global test-ban moratorium, an updated arms‑control framework involving the U.S., Russia, and China, a two‑person rule and human oversight in AI‑enabled nuclear command systems, renewed non‑proliferation commitments, and expanded research into the environmental and societal fallout of nuclear conflict. The event concluded with a poignant performance by the Kronos Quartet and Allison Russell of “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,†underscoring the moral and cultural dimensions of the nuclear peril.
See the coverage of the event by “Democracy Now”: