The fellowship will enable participants to collaboratively explore the nuclear threat landscape and work on tangible solutions.

The fellowship will enable participants to collaboratively explore the nuclear threat landscape and work on tangible solutions.
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.
Through this six-month program, early-career professionals will work with leading experts from CSR’s team and network to develop a better understanding of practical risk reduction concepts and generate new ideas.
A readout from Hon. Rose Gottemoeller's testimony on nuclear strategy and policy before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sept 20, 2022.
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