This joint CNAS-CSIS report identifies seven trends that are eroding the barriers to nuclear proliferation.
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Increasingly capable and intrusive digital information technologies, advanced dual-use military capabilities, and diffused global power structures will reshape future crises and conflicts between nuclear-armed adversaries and challenge traditional ways of thinking about escalation and stability. This emerging security environment will require new concepts and tools to manage the risk of unintended escalation and reduce nuclear dangers.
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The current NC3 structure, last comprehensively updated in the 1980s, was designed for a vastly different security environment.
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Inferring from signaling: North Korea’s deterrence strategy and bargaining tactic
What might Pyongyang’s continued missile tests, public statements, and military exercises signal ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea?
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Preventing Nuclear Risks in Outer Space
Space is becoming an increasingly competitive domain and nuclear technologies, including both nuclear propulsion and energy production, could play a key role in advancing a variety of these missions.
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‘Directing Doomsday’: Lessons Learned from Nuclear Weapons in Film
This quarantine is an opportune time to watch and re-watch movies such as Dr. Strangelove, Failsafe, Command and Control, By Dawn’s Early Light, and China Syndrome, which underscore the threats from nuclear accidents.
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OSINT Ethics: Applications in the Nuclear Landscape
Capstone presenter Catherine Haslam presents a case for OSINT ethics in the nuclear landscape.
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Preliminary Results from a Comparative Analysis of Counterintelligence and Insider Threat in Nuclear Facilities
Capstone presenter Noelle Camp presents a case for counterintelligence and insider threat in nuclear facilities.
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Rare Earth Elements: China’s Monopoly and the Supply Chain Threat to U.S. Strategic Systems
Capstone Presenter Rosemarie Frost presents a case for the risk rare earth elements pose to national security.