The Arms Control Knowledge Transfer InitiativeThe homepage for the Arms Control Knowledge Transfer Initiative digital archive.
NEXT Negotiation Exercise TabletopNEXT is an online platform that enables the simulation of multi-party negotiations on arms control and risk reduction measures across a range of security challenges associated with nuclear weapons and other disruptive technologies.
Deterrence 101Deterrence 101 is a collection of three thirty-minute long videos that explore core deterrence theory. Each video describes basic deterrence concepts, roots these ideas in a historical timeline, and features interviews with leading nuclear policy experts.
On the Nuclear Brink: An Escalation Management ExerciseOn the Nuclear Brink is a set of escalation management exercises tasking participants to provide policy guidance to the President as a nuclear crisis unfolds. The original On the Nuclear Brink exercise centers around an emerging crisis set in 2024 that begins in Lithuania and evolves to a broader U.S.—Russia confrontation. The second On the Nuclear Brink scenario takes place in 2028 as a close-approach incident between the Chinese and Taiwanese navies in the Taiwan Strait sets off a string of political and military maneuvers that raise concerns of cross-Strait conflict. If interested in gaining access to On the Nuclear Brink, please contact the Project on Nuclear Issues at CSIS (poni@csis.org).
Nuclear NarrativeThis study aims to create a dialogue with the nation’s nuclear personnel about the rationales for the U.S. nuclear arsenal that already exist—some of which have been stated at the highest levels of leadership—to ask what the nuclear forces actually hear, what works and what does not, and what motivates them on a daily basis.
On the RadarOn the Radar provides analysis on emerging technologies that are expected to reshape situational awareness across the spectrum of conflict, and examines the implications of these technologies for nuclear strategic stability. It is a product of a two-year research collaboration between the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Nuclear Policy Working Group (NPWG) at the University California Berkeley, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.