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Congress may want to prevent nuclear command and control from going fully autonomous. Would such a law be constitutional?
Personalist leaders present unique challenges for deterrence.
To prevent an AI-enabled arms race resulting in semiautonomous or fully autonomous nuclear weapons, the U.S. and other nuclear-armed states need to negotiate a non-proliferation treaty sooner rather than later.
The risks of brinkmanship look greater when research on human psychology is taken into account.
Probabilistic forecasting is a powerful tool for anticipating global catastrophic risks.
This week on Chatter, Shane Harris speaks to filmmaker Nicholas Meyer about the renewed threat of nuclear war amid the conflict in Ukraine.
Some nuclear disarmament activists believe that the AUKUS agreement is a breach of international law and will intensify the arms race. What these critics neglect is that the alliance is a response to a greater threat to nonproliferation efforts.
AUKUS has already sparked a hullabaloo, both with allies such as France and with adversaries such as China. This post explains the naval nuclear propulsion portion of AUKUS, its operation and legal basis, and the controversy surrounding it.
The latest troop buildup along Ukraine’s border has renewed a debate about Ukrainian security that has persisted since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Biden administration has already promised to act on one of the treaty's key provisions.