NTI-Led Delegation Advances U.S.-China Nuclear Fail-Safe Dialogue in Beijing
Former senior U.S. officials and NTI experts met Chinese counterparts to reduce the risk of accidental, mistaken, or unauthorized nuclear use.
NTI President Joan Rohlfing Talks Neuroscience and Nuclear War with The New York Times
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NTI President Joan Rohlfing is featured in a new article in The New York Times on neuroscience and nuclear decisionmaking. “The threat of nuclear use today, I believe, is as high as it has ever been in the nuclear age,” Rohlfing told The Times.
Rohlfing debunks the assumption rooted in all nuclear war planning that decisions about nuclear weapon use are being made by rational actors.
“We all know that humans make mistakes,” said Rohlfing. “We don’t always have good judgment. We behave differently under stress. And there are so many examples of human failures over the course of history. Why do we think it’s going to be any different with nuclear?”
The article highlights an NTI-sponsored project to “apply insights from cognitive science and neuroscience to nuclear strategy and protocols — so leaders won’t bumble into atomic Armageddon.”
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U.S.-China Workshop Tackles Missile-Launch Notifications and AI-Nuclear Risks
On November 3, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) convened U.S. and Chinese experts for a virtual workshop on reducing nuclear risks in the U.S.-China relationship.
85% of Registered Voters Support the United States Working with China to Mitigate AI Risks, according to New Poll
New YouGov polling commissioned by NTI and ReThink Media finds that nearly 80 percent of registered voters, across party lines, say it is in the interest of U.S. national security to work with China to mitigate catastrophic threats associated with nuclear risks, AI development, and bioterrorism.
