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SYNT: Nuclear Threats and Challenges – Japanese and German Views

SYNT 1: Nuclear Weapons Risk Assessment

Monday, March 10, 2025, 16:30–18:30, HS 1+2

Both countries, Japan and Germany feel a special responsibility for the outbreak of WW II which ended 80 years ago with two nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Physicists of both countries played a special role here. Today, the nuclear threat is significantly increasing in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, but also nuclear arsenals are modernized, nuclear escalation is possible and the accidental use of nuclear weapons with catastrophic consequences is no longer ruled-out. The symposium aims at describing the challenges around both countries, their historical roots and potential ways out of the stalemate by physicists.

	16:30	SYNT 1.1	Invited Talk: Contributions of Japanese Physicists and the Future — •Tomohiro Inagaki
	17:00	SYNT 1.2	Invited Talk: Nishina Yoshio and Japanese Physicists Early Reactions to the Nuclear Weapons — •Kenji Ito
	17:30	SYNT 1.3	Invited Talk: The work and achievements of scientists in context of International Organisations — •Martin B. Kalinowski
	18:00	SYNT 1.4	Invited Talk: Physicist Contributions to Reducing Current Nuclear Threats and Challenges — •Moritz Kütt