Professor Benoît Pélopidas, founder of the Nuclear Knowledges programme is one of the keynote speakers of the Nobel Peace Conference 2025, to take place on 6 August in Oslo, Norway.

The Nobel Peace Conference 2025 celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo’s work for a world free of nuclear weapons. The same day, the world marks 80 years since the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the testimonies of the survivors as a backdrop, and in a time of international tension, we discuss today’s nuclear threat and look at solutions which strengthen the work to ensure that these weapons are never used again.

Visit the conference programme and list of speakers.

This conference is the occasion to announce the recent publication of the Open Access article, "Nuclear memories for the future: Gaps and forgetting in European publics’ understandings of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", by Sterre van Buuren, Benoît Pélopidas and Alexander Sorg.

On the issue on luck and nuclear weapons, we invite you to view the video presentation by Prof. Benoît Pélopidas

The full ERC final conference "Nuclear Weapons Choices - Governing Vulnerabilities between Past and Present" is also available online.

Cover image: A post-war model of 'Little Boy', the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945