On 11 December 2024, two leading SIPRI experts will take part in a panel on nuclear weapons organized by the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr Wilfred Wan, Director of SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Programme, and Hans M. Kristensen, Associate Senior Fellow in SIPRI’s WMD Programme and Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, will participate in the panel ‘NUKES—How to counter the threat’ during the Nobel Peace Prize Forum.
Panellists will discuss strategies to mitigate the risk of nuclear war and advance toward nuclear disarmament. The event will bring together three Nobel Peace Prize laureates and top specialists on nuclear weapons. It will also hear testimonies from hibakusha—survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The event will be livestreamed on the Nobel Prize’s YouTube channel.
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The panel will follow the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, which is held every year on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, 10 December. The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo ‘for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.’ The Nobel Peace Prize Forum is held as part of the Oslo Peace Days to foster interdisciplinary discussion and reflection on pivotal issues in international peace and security. It is organized by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, in cooperation with the University of Oslo.
About SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme
SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Programme seeks to contribute to the understanding of trends and developments pertaining to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. It considers their implications for an increasingly complex security landscape and seeks to identify approaches to address the risks and challenges WMD pose. To this end, the Programme examines the political, institutional, legal and technical aspects of WMD governance, focusing on international efforts at arms control and disarmament, materials security and non-proliferation, and risk reduction.