U.S. Strategic Command has begun this year’s edition of the annual nuclear command & control exercise known as Global Thunder. As we mentioned in last month’s article on what is believed to have been ...

US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), the military arm responsible for nuclear deterrence, is not exactly forthcoming about where AI might be in the current command-and-control system. (STRATCOM referred ...

The Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, or BRSL, part of the Goldman School of Public Policy, launched the Carnegie Nuclear Security Initiative, or CNSI, on Tuesday. The initiative was funded by a ...

“I would submit I want AI nowhere near nuclear command and control,” says Christian Brose, a former senior official in the George W. Bush administration who is head of strategy for Anduril, a leading ...

In a recent op-ed for The Hill, “America Isn’t Prepared for a Strike Against our Nuclear Weapons,” freelance journalist Ben Ollerenshaw argued that the U.S. is woefully unprepared for the nuclear ...

A new nuclear target map includes a Georgia military base. Why it is listed among 15 vulnerable spots for attack in the US.

One of the least-discussed but most consequential outcomes of the resurgence of major-power rivalries is the return of nuclear weapons to the center of international politics. The global salience of ...

The U.S. Air Force’s recent statements about the B-52 bomber’s nuclear role need to be understood in terms of both current capability and potential surge capacity. Public reporting indicates that, as ...

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...