Nolan Center
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The Cyber-Biosecurity Nexus: Key Risks and Recommendations for the United States
Cyber-biosecurity threats are escalating as malicious actors target critical infrastructure, biotech firms, and research institutions. This briefer provides an overview of the trends and critical risks at the nexus of cybersecurity and biosecurity. It then offers high-level recommendations for addressing these risks.
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Expert Reactions to U.S. Department of Defense’s Inaugural Biodefense Posture Review
The inaugural Biodefense Posture Review represents a major step in recognizing the severity that biological threats pose to national security. It reflects the dedication of the DoD to conduct an extensive review of its policies, plans, and authorities, and evaluate the modernization required to successfully achieve the goals of the DoD’s mission as laid out…
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Ending Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Brief History and a Path Forward
It is a dangerous time in history, and the complexity of security risks is not likely to diminish anytime soon. Yet normalizing nuclear threats, and possibly the use of nuclear weapons, is not the answer.
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Briefer: The Avian Influenza Outbreak—Ecological and Biological Security Implications
Taking steps now to enhance surveillance, accelerate vaccine testing and development, and improve the security of farms, will help prevent H5N1 from becoming the next pandemic. It is not too late to tackle this threat, but it is ultimately up to us to take action.
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Report: A Summit on Ending Biological Threats—Event Summary
This report summarizes discussions held during a workshop hosted by the Council on Strategic Risks on September 26, 2022, focused on ending extreme risks from biological threats. Conversations centered around a few core subject areas: pathogen early warning, public-private collaboration, interagency efforts and collaboration, and strategic communications.
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Blinken in Beijing: An Opportunity to Reduce Nuclear Risk
Despite the challenges, there are numerous measures available today that could become a longer arc of arms control relations involving the United States and China.
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CSR’s Nolan Center Announces Inaugural Class of Nuclear Risk Reduction Fellows
The fellowship will enable participants to collaboratively explore the nuclear threat landscape and work on tangible solutions.
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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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Release: National Security and Health Experts Release Report on How to Improve Pathogen Early Warning
In this report, a team of experts assess the current state of domestic and global pathogen early warning systems and lay out important steps for improving capabilities.
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From Warfighting to a Fundamentally Limited Deterrent: Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review
Despite continued expenditures, Biden’s NPR stands as a sober and useful response to Russia’s irresponsibility.