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Curtis T. Asplund

Curtis T. Asplund is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at San José State University, California. He completed postdocs at Columbia University and KU Leuven, and earned his PhD from UC Santa Barbara, where he studied theoretical aspects of black holes and entanglement in quantum field theory. During 2022, he studied nuclear weapons policy as a Next-Generation Fellow with the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction.


Articles by Curtis T. Asplund

Nuclear danger is growing. Physicists of the world, unite!

By Curtis T. Asplund, Zia Mian, Stewart Prager, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons
The Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos, in front of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Photo credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production

By Curtis T. Asplund, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons