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 media, deep fakes, cyber weapons, drones, satellites, machine learning, autonomous systems, hypersonic weapons, and quantum computing.

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…