Because this program is destined to radically update baselines for "extreme" cost growth.

www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

What else could a defense acquisition program do to set itself up for failure?

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

The “such as” goes quantum.

The super-fast, additive “such as” in space.

The AI + bio “such as”

Observe the “such as.”
(Ongoing thread)

Authors talking emerging technologies and nuclear policy run into the problem of defining their terms and making it easier for readers to get.

As a shortcut, we employ the “Such as.” It’s a rowdy collection of mostly unrelated technologies.

Listening to a briefing with stories from “Voices of Ukraine” by Anastasiia Nechytailo.

Heroic and heartbreaking testimonies. Incredibly powerful work by WINS.

www.wins.org/wins-launche...

Listening to excellent stories in conversation on Operation Auburn Endeavor. With Petre Mamradze, Matt Bunn, and event co-organizer @nickolasroth.bsky.social.

“Nuclear Adventures” event in Tbilisi with @stanleycenter.bsky.social .

Excited to be in Tbilisi with colleagues and partners for “Nuclear Adventures,” our project @stanleycenter.bsky.social using storytelling for intergenerational knowledge transfer on risk reduction in practice.

Many excellent stories to come.
riskreduction.stanleycenter.org

Paper also has pretty charts and new primary data.

Showing an interesting 2022 uptick in New START notifications and steady rise in HCOC notifications.

Eager to dive into this novel.

We spend so much time talking about the limits of rationality and what happens when technology escapes our ability to understand it.

Good to see a Shelley-like treatment of von Neumann and our modern monsters.