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Garwin is a member of the board of the [[Union of Concerned Scientists]]. A biographical note states that Garwin "has done a wide range of research in fundamental and applied physics. He was involved with the development of the first thermonuclear weapons and the first photo-intelligence satellites and is a leading expert on many [[arms control]] matters. He has served on the [[President's Scientific Advisory Committee]], the Defense Science Board, and, most recently, on the Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. He is a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], the [[National Academy of Engineering]], and the [[Institute of Medicine]]. He is also Fellow Emeritus at [[IBM]], where he was on the scientific staff for the bulk of his career, and is now the Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]." <ref>Union of Concerned Scientists, [http://www.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/board.html "About UCS"], UCS, accessed August 3, 2007.</ref>

In an April 9, 2001 speech for the [[Nuclear Control Institute]], titled "Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?", Garwin states "In round numbers, nuclear power supplies about 20% of the electrical energy used in the world. Producing electrical energy accounts for about one-third of the world's primary energy consumption, and despite the belief that developed societies can manage with less energy per capita than now, about a doubling of the energy consumption worldwide is generally believed to be desirable to achieve an acceptable standard of living. Despite the fact that much of the world's consumption of energy is not sufficiently concentrated for nuclear power, multiplying these numbers indicates that the present world population of 300 equivalent 1-GWe reactors would need to grow to some 9,000 (or a fraction thereof) if nuclear power were to supply all (or a fraction) of the world's future energy needs."<ref name="Living with nuclear power">[http://www.fas.org/rlg/010409-nci.htm "Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?"], Federation of American Scientists, April 9, 2001. </ref>