AI & Tech

Emerging tech holds promise and risk.
NTI stays ahead of the curve.

Emerging tech holds promise and risk.

Rapid scientific and technical advances create challenges and opportunities to reducing WMD risks.

Governments are outpaced in adapting to new technologies and providing needed oversight. Nuclear facilities, weapons systems, and bio labs are vulnerable to accidents and miscalculation.

6 Only six countries received a full score for cybersecurity in the 2023 NTI Nuclear Security Index

24% The 2023 NTI Nuclear Security Index found that 1/4 of countries with major nuclear facilities don't have basic cybersecurity measures in place

89% In the U.S. nuclear modernization plan, 41 of 46 weapons and related systems examined will receive new or upgraded digital components, with implications for cybersecurity

Nuclear

Nuclear facilities and weapons systems are not immune from sophisticated cyberattacks that could facilitate the theft of weapons-usable nuclear materials or a catastrophic act of sabotage. Even nuclear weapons command-and-control systems could be compromised. Governments are not keeping pace with the threat.

Biological

Today, risks of a catastrophic biological events are magnified by a rapidly changing and interconnected world, increasingly political instability, urbanization, climate change, and rapid technology advances that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to create and engineer pathogens. Health systems, security, science, and governments are struggling to adapt.

Featured Projects

Cyber-Nuclear Weapons Study Group

Cyber-Nuclear Weapons Study Group

Developing Options to Address Cyber Threats to Nuclear Weapons

Cyber-Nuclear Forum

Cyber-Nuclear Forum

Building Global Cybersecurity Capacity at Nuclear Facilities

Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction Initiative

Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction Initiative

Advances in biotechnology outpace national governments’ ability to provide needed oversight to prevent accidents or deliberate misuse of dangerous biological agents.