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Pakistan’s Functional Approach to Regulating LAWS

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Government & PoliticsArms Control, Article 36 reviews, autonomous target selection, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), design-centric prohibitions, disarmament, dual-use technology, effect-based regulation, effective human control, explainability, functional approach, Group of Governmental Experts (GGE), human-in-the-loop, international humanitarian law, legally binding instrument, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS), Pakistan, predictability, preemptive regulation, state responsibility

Pakistan’s Functional Approach to Regulating LAWS

Atta Ullah0 Comments

Published: October 26, 2026 International humanitarian law (IHL) takes an “effect-based” approach to regulating/banning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). This “outcome-driven,” or result-oriented, approach is based on real-world results of…

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Navigating the AI and Nuclear Nexus

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAI, AI agents, AI governance, AI hype, alert postures, anomaly detection, Arms Control, artificial intelligence, Atoms for Algorithms, bankable, clean energy, code, confidence, construction schedules, cost overruns, cyber warfare, data, data centers, data integration, decision-making, digital revolution, disarmament, Disinformation, evidence-based policy, explainability, fissile material, global nuclear order, global security, hardware, human responsibility, human-in-the-loop, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, military strategies, Non-proliferation, NPT, nuclear governance, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear power, nuclear-AI nexus, peaceful nuclear energy, peaceful nuclear energy applications, policymakers, political legitimacy, predictability, regulation, safeguards, safety culture, satellite images, sensors, small modular reactors, SMRs, software, speed and scale, strategy, supply chains, system of systems, technical verification, threat identification, traceability, transparency, uncertainty, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, verification, weaponization

Navigating the AI and Nuclear Nexus

Muhammad Shahzad Akram0 Comments

Published: June 1, 2026 As the world gears up for the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, a new and multifaceted factor is complicating the global strategic calculus: Artificial…

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No Treaty, No Panic: Deterrence and Stability After New START

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesArms Control, Arms Race, artificial intelligence, China, cyber operations, Deterrence, global security, inspections, missile defense, national technical means, New START, nuclear arsenal, nuclear forces, nuclear modernization, precision weapons, predictability, Russia, space systems, stability, strategic deterrence, strategic stability, tactical nuclear weapons, transparency, treaty, U.S., verification

No Treaty, No Panic: Deterrence and Stability After New START

Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

The expiration of the New START Treaty on February 5, 2026 has fueled concerns that, absent formal limits, uncertainty surrounding U.S. and Russian nuclear forces could generate instability and elevate…

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