The global nuclear order has been fundamentally and irreversibly altered by intense geopolitical competition, an increasingly complex strategic environment, and rapid technological advancements, resulting in a dangerously high risk of nuclear weapons use.
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with the life sciences offers tremendous potential benefits to society, but advances in AI biodesign tools also pose significant risks of misuse, with the potential for global consequences.
Using tools like commercial satellite imagery, radar, sensors, and media analysis, we can understand fleet details, construction, and potentially patrol patterns and behaviors.
Novel and increasingly intense global crises, like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are stressing nuclear facilities in new ways. Governments and international institutions should take steps to ensure that facilities are prepared to withstand these crises.
This paper highlights the need for renewed attention to the catastrophic effects of nuclear conflict as a crucial step toward reducing the risk of nuclear use.
This paper offers a focused set of recommendations for specific commitments related to practical and achievable actions that States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) could take to advance the NPT’s goals and achieve success at the 10th NPT Review Conference.
On April 21, 2022, immediately after G20 finance ministers and central bank governors reached consensus to establish a new Fund for preparedness at the World Bank, a group of leading experts and stakeholders from met to review progress and offer advice on next steps. This paper aims to inform next steps to structure, approve, and launch a new Fund, including the forthcoming consultative process led by the World Bank.
The term “safeguards effectiveness” means the effectiveness of IAEA verification—that is, the ability of the IAEA to detect non-compliance.
The ways sustainability of the IAEA safeguards system can be ensured by the agency, its Member States, and the international community
The concepts of “nuclear safety culture” and“nuclear security culture” are well established in IAEA practice, but no similar terminology is used for nuclear safeguards.
