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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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