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The accelerating pace of technology development is creating promising opportunities and significant risks for global efforts to halt the spread and avoid the use of nuclear weapons.
Whether promoting the use of earth imaging technology to enhance nonproliferation or understanding the cybersecurity of nuclear weapons systems, traditional nuclear policy stakeholders face an array of challenges for staying responsive to technology change. Advancing solutions to such challenges increasingly requires new stakeholders—including private industry and civil society—to play more active roles in governance.
The Stanley Foundation’s nuclear policy programming aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of global efforts to halt the spread and avoid the use of nuclear weapons by advancing governance solutions that manage or leverage disruptive technologies. Our efforts focus on:
Contact Ben Loehrke for more information. |
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| Latest Publication |
| Better Than a Floppy: The Potential of Distributed Ledger Technology for Nuclear Safeguards Information Management |
| Cindy Vestergaard, Ph.D. |
| Policy Analysis Brief |
| November 2018 |
This policy analysis brief provides an overview of DLT and explores its utility for safeguards information management. It considers the landscape of factors determining how safeguards data is inputted, processed, and accessed. The findings and recommendations suggest where adding a DLT layer could be applied to provide greater efficiency, data reconciliation, accuracy, and trust in information management at the international, national, and facility... Read More |
November 2018
Better Than a Floppy: The Potential of Distributed Ledger Technology for Nuclear Safeguards Information Management
Cindy Vestergaard, Ph.D.
Policy Analysis Brief (491K)
October 2018
Additive Manufacturing and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Shared Perspectives on Security Implications and Governance Options
Policy Dialogue Brief (393K)
June 2018
An Internet of Nuclear Things: Emerging Technology and the Future of Supply Chain Security
Wyatt Hoffman and Tristan Volpe
Policy Analysis Brief (317K)
April 2018
Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Other Publication
February 2018
Three Tweets to Midnight: Nuclear Crisis Stability and the Information Ecosystem
Policy Dialogue Brief (340K)
January 2018
Cybersecurity of Nuclear Weapons Systems: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Consequences
Other Publication (324K)
April 2019
Solutions Begin with Individuals
Mark M. Seaman, Editor and Director of Communications
April 2019
This is Not a Drill
Alex Wellerstein
April 2019
Pushing for Parity
Francie Williamson, The Stanley Foundation
November 2018
Nuclear Policy Takes a Deep Dive Into Blockchain
Morgen Peck
August 2018
The Good of Global Governance
| CONTACTS |
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Benjamin Loehrke benl@stanleyfoundation.org 563-264-6882   |
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Luisa Kenausis lkenausis@stanleyfoundation.org 563-264-6868 |
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CONVENING POSTSCRIPT
Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy
The Stanley Foundation has joined Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy, a new international initiative bringing together more than 30 organizations working in the global nuclear policy field and committed to gender equality.
Nuclear Policy Program Officer Ben Loehrke will serve as a Focal Point for the initiative, helping to implement the foundation’s commitments and share progress, best practices, and encouragement with other participating organizations.
“To make progress on today’s global nuclear challenges, we must ensure that our colleagues can equally contribute their drive, knowledge, and skill to the policy discussion,” Loehrke said. “We are proud to play our part, joining more than 30 other leading organizations, by promoting gender balance in the foundation’s nuclear policy programming.”
Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A special feature in collaboration with The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), deep-learning, and robotics are enabling new military capabilities that will have a disruptive impact on military strategies. The effects of these capabilities will be felt across the spectrum of military requirements—from intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to offense/defense balances and even on to nuclear weapons systems themselves.
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Three Tweets to Midnight: Nuclear Crisis Stability and the Information Ecosystem
How might a nuclear crisis play out in today’s media environment? How would the crisis be tweeted? This brief provides a framework for questions about crisis stability in today’s information ecosystem and concludes with a series of open questions deserving further examination.
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Courier The Spring 2019 issue of Courier highlights some of the impact-driven activities the Stanley Foundation pursue with its partners. This includes stories that resulted from two journalism workshops: one examining the false missile alert in Hawaii, as well as one focused on issues of conflict and instability. This issue also examines how Green Banks could help bridge the climate finance gap, explores a new initiative that hopes to bring gender equity to the nuclear field, and brings you the stories of three teachers who enhanced their understanding of the world through travel. Spring 2019 PDF. Subscribe for Free. |
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59th Strategy for Peace Conference The Stanley Foundation convenes its Strategy for Peace Conference annually to consider key policy challenges, drawing on the experience and knowledge of invited experts from the public and private sectors. Concurrent roundtables focused on each of the foundation’s three current areas of programming—climate change, nuclear policy, and mass violence and atrocities, with a fourth roundtable focusing on global governance. These roundtable discussions are intended to generate group consensus recommendations for policy change and multilateral action. More. |
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