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Communication Over Escalation from 2020-10-28T00:00
Communication Over Escalation by Institute for Security and Technology
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Formally Verified from 2020-09-17T04:30:04
Formally Verified by Institute for Security and Technology
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Security Through Simplicity from 2020-07-07T03:16:17
In this podcast “Security Through Simplicity,” Eric Grosse joins Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes to detail the trade-offs of prioritizing security, reliability, and efficiency in the CATALINK system....
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The Mathematics of Trust and Betrayal from 2020-06-23T02:17:06
This week’s episode of The Fourth Leg, “The Mathematics of Trust and Betrayal,” features experienced cryptographer and owner and founder of Anagram Laboratories, Dr. Tom Berson. Dr. Berson joins Te...
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Assume Vulnerability from 2020-06-08T23:29:11
This week’s episode of The Fourth Leg,"Assume Vulnerability", features the High Priest of Coreboot, Ron Minnich. We dive deep into the substance of his paper, “Hardware that is Less Untrusted: Open...
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Targeting Communications and Escalation from 2020-05-28T20:43:29
This week's episode of The Fourth Leg, “Targeting Communications and Escalation,” features the return of one of the “NC3 originals,” Paul Bracken from Yale University. We dive deep into the substa...
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Wake-Up Call from 2020-05-14T03:12:03
Welcome back to The Fourth Leg, a series of podcasts focused on one of the most complex systems in the world today - nuclear command and control - and its increasingly complicated future. Here in ...
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NC3, Entanglement, and the Inadvertent Risk of Nuclear War from 2019-11-21T16:29:41
In this week's segment, we sat down with Dr. James Acton regarding the paper he wrote for our workshop back in January. Throughout the discussion, James shares with us how he evaluates the risk of ...
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NC3 Threats: Insider Edition from 2019-11-14T19:18:32
We sat down with Dr. Ronald Schouten about a paper he wrote for our workshop back in January. Among other topics, we discussed insider threats to nuclear command, control and communications. The br...
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Are All Legal Bets Off? from 2019-10-31T23:13:06
In this segment, Bill Boothby observes: “For all States, there is an obligation to take constant care in nuclear operations to spare civilians and civilian objects. More detailed precautionary rul...
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Starting from the Beginning from 2019-10-24T18:38:12
In this segment Paul Davis suggest that U.S. NC3 modernization “should place increased emphasis on assuring control, avoiding accidents, and avoiding ill-informed or unwise employment of nuclear we...
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The End of Survivability? from 2019-10-17T18:44:45
In this segment Daryl Press focuses on the growing threats to nuclear command and control and communication (NC3) systems around the world and the links between vulnerable NC3 and strategic instabi...
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Elements of Caution and Prudence from 2019-10-11T16:52:58
Israel is a unique case among the current nine nuclear weapons states. It is the sixth state—and the first and only one in the Middle East—to develop, acquire, and possess nuclear weapons. And yet,...
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An Altogether Different Set of Challenges from 2019-09-26T20:54:14
The Pakistani command and control (C2) system evolved over a four-decade period following a national consensus that deemed the development of a nuclear deterrent a critical component of national se...
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When and Why Cede Nuclear Authority from 2019-09-18T22:42:48
The brain of a state’s nuclear force structure is its command and control architecture and systems (NC3). Much of the proliferation and strategy literature focuses on the hardware of nuclear weapon...
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United Kingdom: Nuclear Weapon, Command, Control, and Communications from 2019-09-12T20:25:43
The United Kingdom formally became a nuclear weapon state in 1952, with operational systems from 1955. The UK's strategic deterrent has evolved over the past 66 years of it being a nuclear armed st...
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China, Technology, and the Security Dilemma from 2019-09-05T22:44:10
In this episode, Elsa Kania assesses how emerging technologies--including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fifth-generation telecommunications, and quantum communications--may affect China...
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Questioning Unitary Command: Nuclear Launch Authority and the N-Person Problem from 2019-08-08T19:48:17
In this segment, Dr. Alex Wellerstein sketches a framework for thinking about how concentrated nuclear use authority should be at the top. While he discusses specific U.S. proposals for reform in r...
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The Curse of Flexibility from 2019-07-25T19:48:48
In this segment, Nancy Leveson argues that using conservative techniques and avoiding unnecessarily complex software in critical functions in NC3 systems circumvented nuclear catastrophe in the pas...
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Deterred by the Uncertainties from 2019-07-18T23:07:44
In this episode, Fiona Cunningham describes the origins of China’s NC3 system and its primary role in supporting China’s land-based missile force. She outlines recent developments including mobili...
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Is the Enemy in the System? from 2019-06-20T20:47:40
Dr. Jon Lindsay argues that: “As NC3 increasingly uses digital technologies to enhance efficiency and reliability, the cybersecurity of NC3 becomes a pressing concern. Adversaries have incentives t...
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Complexity is the Enemy of Security from 2019-05-30T18:33:49
In this segment, Dr. Eric Grosse argues: “Much of the security progress over the past decade has been at large-scale, finding and patching vulnerabilities in widely used applications or defending n...
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The System Can't Be Perfect from 2019-05-24T20:49:41
In this podcast Dr. John Harvey asserts that the US NC3 system “must seek vastly improved senior leader conferencing capabilities to support decisions that go beyond what some of us call the Cold W...
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Grand Tactics and the Thin Skin of Civilization from 2019-05-14T16:49:54
Welcome to The Fourth Leg, a series of podcasts focused on one of the most complex systems in the world today - nuclear command and control - and its increasingly complicated future. Within this s...
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