converging risks
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Release: Experts Publish Handbook on How Emerging Technologies Increase the Risk of Miscalculation, Misinterpretation and Escalation in Nuclear Weapons Decisions
In the next crisis between nuclear-armed states, national decision-makers may confront a much denser fog of war, an increased pressure to act, and a grave lack of understanding about the features of their operating environment—to name just a few of the changes on the horizon—due to a suite of emerging and disruptive technologies including social…
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New Zealand’s Biodefence Assessment Incorporates Converging Risks Approach
By Andrea Rezzonico New Zealand’s latest biodefense assessment published by its Ministry of Defence incorporates a “converging risks” approach by spotlighting the intersection of biological and climate threats and their attendant security implications. Persistent and intensifying disruptors highlighted in the report include: