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Archive, Strategic AdversariesCanada, deception, Disinformation, Fake News, NATO, Nuclear Deterrence, psychological profiling, South Korea, three body problem, UK

Realpolitik and Fake News Complicate Nuclear Deterrence

Joe Buff & Aaron Holland0 Comments

For America to pragmatically solve the nuclear strategy three body problem—simultaneously deterring Russia, China, and North Korea—the United States must compensate for three characteristics of the international system: realpolitik, fake…

Archive, Challenging Disarmament Disinformation, Strategic Adversariesarmageddon, ballistic missile, Disinformation, missile defense, North Korea, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear warfare, post-strike, Russia, wargames

Annie Jacobsen Gets It Wrong about Nuclear Deterrence

Peter Huessy2 Comments

Annie Jacobsen’s new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, is receiving rave reviews. It portrays a scenario in which a limited North Korean nuclear strike on the United States spirals into…

Defense & SecurityCOVID-19, Disinformation, International Security, Public Health, Social Media, Terrorism

Social Media’s Role in Disaster Preparedness & Crisis Management

Mohamed ELDoh

There were over 4.5 billion active internet users around the world as of January 2020—roughly 60 percent of the global population. In an average month, over 3 billion are active…

Government & PoliticsDisinformation, Information Operations, Iran, United States

Iran’s Fragile Moments of Democracy May Not Survive the Propaganda Bots

Ali Arfa

A day after Aljazeera published a piece on Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), whose Twitter users were targeting Iranian scholars, academics, and journalists in favor of dialogue between the U.S. and Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister…

Defense & SecurityDisinformation, Europe, European Union, France, Georgia, Germany, NATO, Russia, United States

How Russia’s Disinformation Campaigns are Succeeding in Europe

Gabriella Gricius

Russian disinformation campaigns continue to increase, and increasingly seems to be part of a coordinated campaign to overwhelm democracies. In 2017, Catalonia held an illegal referendum on independence from Spain, despite…

Defense & SecurityDisinformation, Fake News, France, Russia, Tanzania, United States

The Unintended Consequences of Fake News

Matthew Crosston

Unintended consequences are often found in the debris of partisan politics – and we’ve seen many there already during the short tenure of the Trump presidency. But perhaps the most consequential…