Analysis / CommentaryBreaking the Silo: Examining International Security at the Nuclear NexusByRebecca Hersman, Reja Younis and Maxwell SimonPublished Oct 8, 2020Understanding international security issues at the “nuclear nexus” is critical for managing a contemporary security environment characterized by rapid technological innovation, increased strategic competition, and a looming nuclear shadow. Series Nuclear Nexus
Analysis / CommentaryWormhole Escalation in the New Nuclear AgeByRebecca HersmanPublished Jul 10, 2020Increasingly 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.
Analysis / ReportDeep Dive Debrief: NC3: Challenges Facing the Future SystemByRebecca Hersman, Eric Brewer and Suzanne ClaeysPublished Jul 9, 2020This brief focuses on the emerging political, informational, and fiscal risks to the U.S. nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) architecture. Series Deep Dive Debrief
Analysis / CommentaryWorld Order after Covid-19ByRebecca HersmanPublished May 28, 2020CSIS Experts Samuel Brannen, Kathleen Hicks, Seth G. Jones, Rebecca Hersman, and Todd Harrison predict how the COVID-19 pandemic could effect geopolitics in the long-term.
Analysis / CommentaryDecoding the Latest U.S. Report on Arms Control: Are Russia and China Really Cheating?ByRebecca HersmanPublished Apr 17, 2020On April 15, 2020, the State Department released the executive summary for the 2020 Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, more commonly known as the Compliance Report.
Analysis / ReportOn the Horizon Volume 2: A Collection of Papers from the Next GenerationBySimone Williams and Rebecca HersmanPublished Apr 14, 2020The papers included in this volume comprise research from participants in the 2019 Nuclear Scholars Initiative and the PONI Conference Series. Series On The Horizon
Analysis / CommentaryFINAL REPORT, Under the Nuclear Shadow: Situational Awareness Technology and Crisis DecisionmakingByRebecca Hersman and Reja YounisPublished Mar 19, 2020Informed by research and eight tabletop exercises conducted with nearly 150 participants overall, this two-year study examines implications of the emerging strategic situational awareness ecosystem and its impact on crisis decisionmaking. Read the full report on the On the Radar website.
Analysis / CommentaryCSIS European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues, 2019 Consensus StatementByRebecca HersmanPublished Mar 13, 2020The European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues have convened senior nuclear policy experts from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States (P3) for the past eleven years to discuss nuclear deterrence, arms control, and nonproliferation policy issues and identify areas of consensus among the three countries.
Analysis / CommentaryRigid Structures, Evolving Threat: Preventing the Proliferation and Use of Chemical WeaponsByRebecca Hersman and Suzanne ClaeysPublished Dec 18, 2019Chemical weapons are back. Since 2012, the growing number and types of CW uses have increasingly challenged the anti-CW regime.
Analysis / CommentaryWhen is More Actually Less? Situational Awareness and Nuclear RisksByRebecca Hersman and Bernadette StadlerPublished Aug 2, 2019As increasingly capable and provocative situational awareness tools come into play, the very act of improving situational awareness may intensify escalation cycles in unanticipated ways, particularly among nuclear-armed states.