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  • Cyber Warfare and Nuclear Stability

    Evaluating the vulnerabilities and resilience of nuclear command, control, and communication systems to cyberattacks and their potential to escalate to nuclear conflict.

  • Space Based Nuclear Deterrence

    Assessing the strategic implications and potential consequences of deploying nuclear weapons or nuclear-capable systems in space.

  • AI & Nuclear Command and Control or Other Areas

    Examining the opportunities and risks of incorporating AI into nuclear command and control systems, focusing on maintaining safety, security, and strategic stability. If not in NC2 where  could AI be used to support the Nuclear Enterprise?

  • Exercising Armageddon

    There is a robust history of using exercises, wargaming, and simulations to inform capability gaps, decision-making, doctrine development, and overall strategies. From the success of the fleet problems of the US Navy in the interwar years to less successful strategic bombing principles developed

  • What Comes after the B61-12?

    The B61-12 is a welcome and much needed upgrade for the theater nuclear mission in USEUCOM and for US dual-capable aircraft - but it is not the end.  The US and NATO must start developing the next iteration of theater nuclear weapons now. 

  • Great Power Decision-Making

    The world 's great (and near-great) powers are experiencing different economic, demographic, technological, and military trends. The interaction of these trends will drive changes in the global power balance in the future strategic environment. If current trends persist, will the United States's