
Addressing Cyber-Nuclear Security Threats
What if a hacker shut down the security system at a highly sensitive nuclear materials storage facility, giving access to terrorists seeking highly enriched uranium to make a bomb?
The Scientific and Technical Affairs Program seeks to capture the opportunities new and emerging technologies afford while working to reduce the potential for and impact of their malevolent use.
We work with leading experts and partners to ensure a future in which new technologies and approaches—from monitoring technologies to artificial intelligence—will reduce nuclear proliferation risks, enhance future arms control agreements, improve cybersecurity of critical systems, and build transparency among nuclear weapons states.
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Program efforts are guided by a high-level Science and Technology Advisory group.
What if a hacker shut down the security system at a highly sensitive nuclear materials storage facility, giving access to terrorists seeking highly enriched uranium to make a bomb?
Building Global Cybersecurity Capacity at Nuclear Facilities
Developing Options to Address Cyber Threats to Nuclear Weapons
Open, increasingly digital data combined with tools for data analytics can supplement traditional nonproliferation efforts by detecting illicit proliferation
For as long as we have nuclear weapons, the United States must ensure they are safe, secure, and reliable.
As cyber capabilities evolve and nuclear weapons systems become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, the risk increases that nuclear weapons will be used by accident or miscalculation.
The damaging effects of the light, heat, blast, and radiation caused by a nuclear explosion have been known to scientists since the end of the Second World War
New paper explores the possible applications of AI to nuclear-weapons systems and assesses the benefits, risks, and strategic stability implications.
With the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, NTI demonstrates the viability of using publicly available information and machine learning to detect nuclear proliferation.
NTI explores the risks and benefits related to the digitization and automation plans for modernization of U.S. nuclear weapons systems and addresses implications for the national security community to consider as the process moves forward.