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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)
November 2018
Nuclear Policy Takes a Deep Dive Into Blockchain
Morgen Peck
August 2018
The Good of Global Governance
April 2018
Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence
April 2018
The Critical Human Element in the Machine Age of Warfare
Elsa B. Kania
April 2018
On the Digital Frontlines
Journalist Kim Zetter, author of Countdown to Zero Day
October 2017
Core Values
Keith Porter, Editor
| 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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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Journalism Fellowships 2019 Atomic Reporters is offering an opportunity for qualified journalists to apply for the “This Is Not a Drill” investigative reporting fellowships. The fellowships are being offered as part of a journalism program organized in partnership with the Stanley Foundation which included the 2019 “This is Not a Drill” journalism workshop held on the one-year anniversary of a false ballistic missile alert that occurred in the U.S. state of Hawaii last January. |
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Courier The Winter 2018 issue of Courier focuses on innovators and innovative ideas for global challenges—the role of women and vulnerable countries in mitigating climate change; the potential of blockchain technology in nuclear safeguards; the part the Boy Scouts are playing to keep the peace in the Central African Republic; the possibility that private enterprise could contribute to a more resilient society in Iraq; and an appreciation of the late Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Winter 2018 PDF. Subscribe for Free. |
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The Stanley Foundation: Part of COP24 As a part of our efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the foundation put forward policy ideas to achieve a global turning point in emissions by 2020, built upon efforts to catalyze global climate action by countries and sub- and non-state actors, and worked with journalists to strengthen coverage of the UN climate negotiations. |
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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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