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Hacking the Apocalypse: How Cyberattacks Could Trigger Nuclear Escalation

Gilles A. Paché0 Comments

Many of the world’s strategists still share the same conviction: as Kathryn Bigelow’s film A House of Dynamite (2025) dramatizes, nuclear escalation can only originate from a missile of unknown…

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Defense & Security, Emerging Threatsaccountability, advanced analytics, advisory councils, AI safety frameworks, AI-enabled national preparedness, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), biosecurity infrastructure, bipartisan engagement, co-stewardship of national resilience, codifying capabilities in law, Congress as strategic partner, continuity across administrations, critical infrastructure, data protection, defense planning , democratic oversight, Department of Energy (DOE) quantum networks, disaster response, distributed quantum networking testbed, economic competitiveness, Economic Security, entanglement distribution, ethics, experimental infrastructure, federal guidance, intellectual property protections, international norms, ion-trap quantum computer, mission-driven portfolios, multi-stakeholder governance, multi-year funding, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), national power, National Quantum Initiative (NQI), national resilience, Navy quantum RDT&E, near-term use cases, nontraditional vendors, Other Transaction Authority (OTA), oversight boards, pilot programs, public trust, public-private partnerships, quantum communications, quantum communications corridor, quantum networking testbeds, quantum-resilient communications, quantum-resistant secure transmission, RDT&E portfolio, responsible technology use, safety, security, stable appropriations, statutory roles for key technologies, strategic competitiveness, streamlined oversight, supply-chain monitoring, supply-chain security, tech–government alliances, threat detection, transparency, Trust in government, workforce opportunity

Beyond the Next Administration: Building Enduring Tech–Government Alliances for National Power

Greg Sharpe0 Comments

The tech industry can increase the nation’s trust in government by becoming a reliable and visibly accountable partner for securing America’s technological edge. Specifically, the tech industry can help Congress…

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Strategic AdversariesAbrar Rahman Namir. , Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), American Strategic Interests, ASEAN, asymmetric capabilities, China, Critical and Emerging Technology, critical infrastructure, Cyber Coercion, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Incidents, Cyberspace, Democracies, Digital Age, Digital Curtain, Digital Enforcement Body, Digital Silk Road, Disinformation campaigns, Economic Security, Free and Open Indo-Pacific, Geopolitical Significance, Gray Zone Tactics, Great Power Competition, Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA), Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific (MAITRI), maritime security, Pacific Island Forum, Quad Cyber Challenge, Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Quad Partnership on Cable Connectivity and Resilience, Regional Partners, resource allocation, Specialized Workers, Strategic Inertia, Tech-centric Partnership, technological advancements, Technology-enabled Authoritarianism, Telecommunications Infrastructure, Undersea Cables, United States, Volt Typhoon

Tech-centric Partnership in the Indo-Pacific to Deter Digital Curtain

Abrar Rahman Namir0 Comments

From Pakistan in the Indian Ocean to Kiribati in Oceania, a digital curtain is falling across the Indo-Pacific. Various actors are leveraging cyberspace and technological advancements to implement an alternative…

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How Civilian Dual-Use Technologies Are Reshaping Global Security Policies

Harry Geisler0 Comments

In August 2024, police in northern Germany chased a fleet of drones loitering over critical infrastructure: a decommissioned nuclear plant, a chemical facility, and a Baltic liquified natural gas (LNG)…

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Russia’s Vulnerable Underbelly: The Failure of Force Protection on Critical Infrastructure

Joshua Thibert0 Comments

Russia’s military doctrine, honed through decades of sparse experience and adapted in the post-Soviet era, emphasizes the projection of power and the defense of its vast territory. However, the ongoing…

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Deterrence and NATO’s Emerging Security Environment

Alex Alfirraz Scheers0 Comments

The international security environment is deteriorating rapidly and becoming increasingly dangerous and uncertain. China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia pose a threat to Western interests in multiple domains. Among them…

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Iran’s Threat to Azerbaijan’s Critical Energy Infrastructure

Rufat Ahmedzade0 Comments

Iranian leaders increased their belligerent rhetoric following the October 1 attack in which the Islamic Republic fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles on Israel. Codenamed “True Promise,” the attack was the…

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Counter Terror’s High-tech to Low-tech Backfire

Justin Leopold-Cohen0 Comments

As the media ponders how Israel will respond to Iranian missile attack, many remain awestruck by the September 17, 2024, Israeli pager attack and subsequent walkie-talkie detonations that killed or…