Cyber-Nuclear Weapons Study Group
Developing Options to Address Cyber Threats to Nuclear Weapons
Science & Tech
Emerging tech holds promise and risk.
NTI stays ahead of the curve.
Emerging tech holds promise and risk.
Rapid scientific and technical advances create challenges and opportunities to reducing WMD risks.
Governments are outpaced in adapting to new technologies and providing needed oversight. Nuclear facilities, weapons systems, and bio labs are vulnerable to accidents and miscalculation.
6 Only six countries received a full score for cybersecurity in the 2023 NTI Nuclear Security Index
24% The 2023 NTI Nuclear Security Index found that 1/4 of countries with major nuclear facilities don't have basic cybersecurity measures in place
89% In the U.S. nuclear modernization plan, 41 of 46 weapons and related systems examined will receive new or upgraded digital components, with implications for cybersecurity
Nuclear
Nuclear facilities and weapons systems are not immune from sophisticated cyberattacks that could facilitate the theft of weapons-usable nuclear materials or a catastrophic act of sabotage. Even nuclear weapons command-and-control systems could be compromised. Governments are not keeping pace with the threat.
Biological
Today, risks of a catastrophic biological events are magnified by a rapidly changing and interconnected world, increasingly political instability, urbanization, climate change, and rapid technology advances that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to create and engineer pathogens. Health systems, security, science, and governments are struggling to adapt.
Featured Projects
Cyber-Nuclear Forum
Building Global Cybersecurity Capacity at Nuclear Facilities
Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction Initiative
Advances in biotechnology outpace national governments’ ability to provide needed oversight to prevent accidents or deliberate misuse of dangerous biological agents.
NTI stays ahead of the curve
NTI Convenes the First International AI-bio Forum
NTI | bio convened more than 25 high-level biosecurity professionals, AI experts, and policymakers for the inaugural meeting of the International AI-Bio Forum.
NTI Hosts 8th Meeting of Cyber-Nuclear Forum
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Headlines Inaugural NTI Innovation Forum
Reducing Cyber Risks to Nuclear Weapons: Proposals from a U.S.-Russia Expert Dialogue
Nuclear Weapons in the New Cyber Age
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences
Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction: A Global Framework for Accessible, Safe and Secure DNA Synthesis
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