Taiwan Security Brief: 2020
…investments, such as Apple and Google increasing operations in Taiwan. Officials in the U.S. and Taiwan are also set to launch a new annual economic and commercial dialogue to address…
Cyber Scam Centers: A Growing Flashpoint in China-Myanmar Relations
…known for tracking censorship and protests in China, transferred the spreadsheet to Google Docs, where it remains accessible. To date, it includes over 1500 victims and their families impacted by…
Missing: Legal Frameworks for Chemical Security
In the aftermath of the widespread use of chemical weapons during the First World War, many countries committed to not use such weapons again in the 1925 Geneva Protocol.1United Nations,…
Current Defense Plans Require Unsustainable Future Spending
…some $756 billion on DoD and DOE nuclear weapons modernization programs between fiscal 2023-2032.32Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2023 to 2032, (Washington: Congressional Budget Office, July 2023), 1, https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-07/59054-nuclear-forces.pdf….
Fresh Ideas Needed to Prevent WMD Proliferation
…forget the overwhelming danger to civilians that nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons pose — which is why they are called Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). These weapons have terrible effects….
A Critical Juncture: Global Security and the Age of Converging Technologies
…Company, “Westinghouse Unveils Pioneering Nuclear Generative AI System,”Westinghouse Electric Company LLC., September 4, 2024, https://info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/westinghouse-unveils-pioneering-nuclear-generative-ai-system. 11 He and Degtyarev, “AI and Atoms.” 12 RXN for Chemistry, “Proudly Introducing the First…
Tougher Measures Needed on Terror Weapons BUSH CONGRESS SHOULD ACT
…Commission devoted considerable attention to the threat posed by terrorists armed with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction. In its final report, the commission warned that “the greatest…
To Hiroshima
…Nuclear Security Summits. But the accomplishments of this process in the civil nuclear domain could be more than offset by the growth of fissile material stockpiles for nuclear weapons and…