The Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) invites the University community and the public to the launch of The Missiles on Our Land, an investigation into the the human, societal, and environmental costs associated with the US plans to modernize its nuclear weapon arsenal, published in partnership with Scientific American.

The Missiles on Our Land combines state-of-the-art simulations of the consequences of nuclear war with ethnography and journalism, including narrative storytelling, podcasting, photography and cinematography to shed light on the consequences of the most significant nuclear weapon build-up since the end of the Cold War. It is the result of collaboration between the Program on Science & Global Security, Nuclear Princeton, and Columbia University’s School of Journalism, and published in parts as a special report on "the New Nuclear Age" by Scientific American.

This project aims to provide information that everyone in the United States and Native North America, especially the communities living closest to the missile fields, need to know so that they can understand and be part of the discussion as to the full extent of the risks associated with deploying new nuclear weapons for the next 50 years or more.

Location: Roberston Hall, Bowl 01

Welcome remarks by:

Zia Mian, Co-director, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
Laura Helmuth, Editor in Chief, Scientific American

Panel 1: Understanding and communicating nuclear weapon policies and risks
Sebastien Philippe, Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security
Nina Berman, Professor, Columbia University School of Journalism
Jeffery DelViscio, Chief Multimedia Editor, Scientific American

Panel2: The local and national politics of US nuclear weapon policies
Ella Weber ‘25 (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation), Princeton University
Abe Streep, Journalist
Sharon Weiner, Professor, American University