Environmental Security News This Week
…Google Earth features research by investigative journalist Ian Urbina on maritime security issues from IUU fishing to toxic waste dumping. On the map, illegal boats are shown to poach fish…
Bolstering Arms Control in a Contested Geopolitical Environment
…al., First Committee Briefing Book (New York, NY: Reaching Critical Will, 2021), 4-5, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com21/briefingbook/FCBB-2021.pdf. While states retained the ultimate decisions regarding the treaty, it is not likely that an agreed…
Future Urban Conflict, Technology, and the Protection of Civilians
…in.10”Government of United Kingdom, Ministry of Defence, “Strategic Trends Programme: Future Operating Environment 2035,” (Shrivenham: HMG Publishing Service, 2014). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/646821/20151203-FOE_35_final_v29_web.pdf. This urban environment involves multiple factors. In fact, based on…
23 Years of Nonuse
…on Pulwama and Post-Pulwama India-Pakistan Relations,” Gallup Pakistan, March 29, 2019, https://gallup.com.pk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/29.03.19-English.pdf. Further, in a striking finding, 60 percent of Pakistanis oppose using nuclear weapons first in a military conflict…
The Remarkable Story of the Montreal Protocol with Lessons for Cyberspace
…Montreal Protocol’s Non-Compliance Procedure,” International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Modling, Austria: St. Gabriel, May 1996), https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4863/1/ER- 96-002.pdf and https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/download/pdf/8396149.pdf. The mechanism is comprised of an Implementation Committee of 10…
Blockchain in China
…Ledger Technology: Beyond Blockchain,” 2016, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/492972/gs-16-1-distributed-ledger-technology.pdf. meaning that data are not deleted, but rather that a change is notated at the end of the chain. Each block is “hashed” with…
The U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and its Implications for Pakistan
…Foreign Policy at Brookings, Paper 14, March 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/acnpi_201703_strategic_chain.pdf. In addition to an escalating nuclear arms race in South Asia, U.S.-China tensions pose the added risk that Washington and Beijing…
Harnessing AI to Move from Threat to Threat Reduction
…In one experiment, well-meaning researchers repurposed MegaSyn, a generative AI tool for pharmaceutical R&D, and the system identified 40,000 toxic molecules, including nerve-agents, in under six hours. These models are…