Here we highlight the work of NTI and share knowledge, ideas, and viewpoints addressing the crosscutting challenges our world faces—addressing risks while supporting innovation—to make our world safer.
As AI expands what is possible in biology, it’s past time the biosecurity, insurance, and legal communities came together to examine what these developments mean for preventing harm and assigning responsibility if it occurs.
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The integration of AI into nuclear systems is underway. The guardrails, safety, and security frameworks needed to understand and manage the consequences are not. A new generation of AI-informed nuclear fail-safe reviews is urgently needed in all countries with nuclear weapons.
Beijing and Washington must be on the same page to avoid nuclear material from falling into the wrong hands. Continued Track II engagement on nuclear security is essential for preserving cooperation within a critical area of shared interest, even when diplomacy between political officials is at an impasse.
Younger generations understand nuclear weapons through digital screens rather than personal experience. The future of nuclear risk reduction hinges on the ability to communicate with and engage young people directly; to educate and mobilize them around nuclear issues.
Most of us think of cognitive biases as quirks of everyday decision-making, but a recent Texas National Security Review study shows they are deeply embedded in people’s attitudes toward nuclear weapons and war.
NTI’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration activities this year centered on the theme of passing the torch to the next generation. The result was an intergenerational connection reflected in two artists: 88-year-old Hiroshima survivor Toshiko Tanaka, and 13-year-old painter Kotone.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, parents shared breakfast with their children and sent them off to school. Some never came home. NTI is commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki through a series of activities that encourage remembrance, reflection, and wider awareness.
In Nolan’s new film, The Odyssey, he gives Odysseus the reckoning he never gave Oppenheimer. The parallel he appears to be drawing is that the same tunnel vision that produced the Trojan Horse produced the Manhattan Project, and each comes with the same casualty: civilians treated as collateral damage in order to win a war.
While countries with existing enrichment capacity may be attracted to laser enrichment as a way to increase the efficiency of their operations, others could be attracted to it as a pathway to a covert weapons program.
One of the most significant achievements in reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism over the past two decades is something that rarely makes headlines.
After four weeks of intense negotiations, it is entirely understandable to feel frustration, disappointment, and anger. What we cannot afford is for diplomats, policymakers, and publics to internalize that frustration as resignation.
Senior Director, Communications
Director, Communications
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