They gathered in Chicago to provide world leaders with a playbook to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
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- The famous Atomic Scientist’s “The End Clock” breaking news is the closest to date in the middle of the night.
- “Without clear and sustainable efforts from world leaders to prevent nuclear war, our luck will undoubtedly end,” said a statement from Nobel recipients, faith leaders and experts.
- Vatican nuclear expert Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi said faith leaders should provide world leaders with a moral and ethical assessment of nuclear policy and technology.
Chicago – In the fall of 2022, US spies said Russia’s chances of using tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine are 50% – a coin flip.
Almost three years later, the risk of nuclear war only increased, says top experts. Atomic Scientists’ Breaking News The famous “The End Clock” is the closest thing to the middle of the night.
Humanity is “directing in the wrong direction” on the threat of “climaxing civilization in the afternoon” and a rally of Nobel Prize winners, nuclear experts and diplomats gathered at the University of Chicago to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the planet’s first nuclear explosion when the United States conducted a Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945.
Russia did not turn its neighbors into its core, but in Ukraine, a brutal war of attrition continues.
Two nuclear-armed states, India and Pakistan, attacked each other in May. The United States and Israel, both possess nuclear weapons, bombed Iran in June to destroy its nuclear program. General support for the construction of nuclear weapons grows in countries such as Japan and South Korea.
Against this backdrop, more than 12 Nobel Prize winners and numerous nuclear experts signed the Declaration for the Prevention of Nuclear War on July 16, with recommendations to world leaders to reduce the increased risk of nuclear conflict.
“Even though we have avoided nuclear catastrophe in the past, the law of time and probability is not on our side,” says the declaration. “Without clear and sustainable efforts from world leaders to prevent nuclear war, our luck will undoubtedly end.”
The declaration came from a day of debate and debate, said Rep. David Gross, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and 2004 Nobel Prize winner.
“We are urging world leaders to consider our proposals and listen to the warnings,” Gross said.
Longtime Vatican diplomat and nuclear advisor, Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, argued that faith leaders should embrace the role of providing world leaders with an independent moral and ethical assessment of nuclear policy and technology.
Key to international agreements to reduce risk
The announcement and speakers speak widely about the important role and treaties that have played by building trust with the post-Cold War nation and with countries that are shrinking their arsenals.
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However, the important treaties remain unstrengthened, and the last remaining arms management contract between the US and Russia expires in February 2026.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is an international agreement of 1996 aimed at banning explosive nuclear tests.
The CTBT organization, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is well detected even in underground nuclear tests (and suspicious seismic events are identified) it’s not (Inspect for explosions), the treaty is not valid. Nine more countries, including the United States and Russia (which removed CTBT in 2023), must formally approve the treaty before binding on international law.
In Parliament, CTBTO leader and former Australian diplomat Robert Floyd joined the Nobel recipient when calling the international community to formally approve the test ban.
Floyd argued that if a nuclear state resumes testing to build more destructive nuclear weapons, it could lead to “other states developing nuclear weapons and … a new world nuclear weapon race.”
The declaration also highlighted the need for the US, Russia and China to enter arguments on arms control. The new launch treaty in 2010 will expire in February 2026, restricting the deployment of US-Russia nuclear weapons and allowing rivals to confirm cooperation from other parties.
AI and the atomic bomb
Its role in artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons has also become more heavy.
The declaration highlighted “an unprecedented serious risks posed by artificial intelligence,” and pleaded that “all nuclear-armed states will ensure meaningful and strengthened human management and oversight through nuclear command and control.”
Tomasi, the Vatican president, said scientists, disarmament experts and faith leaders should study the “ethical implications of emerging technologies” such as AI on “nuclear stability.”
World leaders, including former President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, generally agree that humans should manage nuclear launch buttons, not AI algorithms.
However, the debate is furious about the ideal and secure scope that integrates AI into other nuclear functions such as early warning, targeting, and communications.
A February 2025 report from the new American Security Think Tank Center on AI Nuclear Risk warned that “overrelationship on untested, unreliable or biased AI systems for decision support during the crisis” could potentially lead to decision makers in the nuclear crisis.
Ultimately, Nobel’s winner Gross, advances in reducing the risk of nuclear weapons, are under the pressure of the masses on world leaders.
“The main motivation for progress to reduce the risk of Armageddon was the fear of many people around the world who demanded (action) from their leaders,” Gross said.
Davis Winkie’s role in covering nuclear threats and national security at USA Today is supported by partnership with Autorider Foundation and Journalism Funding Partner. Funders do not provide editor input.
