Mekong Dam Monitor: Methods and Processes
…days). The research team identifies water clusters with the classified image (see image 1). The Google Earth Engine code can be found here. Image 1: Stimson uses Google Earth Engine…
AI Unleashed: Techno-Sovereignty and the Rules Deficit
…challenges. Although the technology is still in its early stages, Open AI, Google, and a host of other Big Tech companies and startups are intensifying their efforts to commercially deploy…
North Korea and Biological Weapons: Assessing the Evidence
…Military Threat: Biological Weapons,” The New York Times, January 15, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/science/north-korea-biological-weapons.html; and Joby Warrick, “Microbes by the ton: Officials see weapons threat as North Korea gains biotech expertise,” The…
The Logic of Nuclear Superiority
…reduces a state’s expected cost of a nuclear war, increasing its resolve in high-stakes crises, providing it with coercive bargaining leverage, and enhancing nuclear deterrence.” In Matt’s view, “Nuclear weapons…
Experts React: The Biden Administration’s National Defense Strategy
…an assessment of how nuclear-armed competitors and adversaries may react.” The DoD would rather not need to threaten to use nuclear weapons in order to deter nuclear-armed competitors and reassure…
Iranians Debate Whether It’s Time To Develop Nuclear Weapons
…was issued in a message to an international conference on disarmament and non-proliferation, “in addition to nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical weapons and…
Extended Deterrence: Cutting Edge of the Debate on Nuclear Policy
…nuclear-use in the event of conflict. The strong possibility that Iran will soon have nuclear weapons adds another motivation as Turkey, a NATO member with US nuclear weapons on its…
How Israel’s Nuclear Monopoly Affects Proliferation in the Middle East
…nuclear weapons without having to address inconvenient questions. It may also be that declaring Israel’s nuclear weapons would be provocative, forcing Arab states to respond in some way and upsetting…