Come and join us for our first meeting of the semester! We will be going over plans for NPWG this semester, giving a recap of what we did last semester, and watching the first episode of CSIS PONI's Deterrence 101 video series!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us for a discussion of this semester's research work!  We will be discussing the current state of the research and looking for volunteers interested in working on the project.  We will also be having a group discussion on the research topic so that everyone will have a chance to contribute!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us as we host Erin Dumbacher of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), who will speak to us on Escalation Risks amid Modernization: Cybersecurity Threats and U.S. Nuclear Weapons.

Abstract:

U.S. nuclear weapons are “going digital,” with roughly 90 percent of modernization programs adding digital upgrades or new digital components. Digitization and automation plans for the first major upgrade of the U.S. nuclear weapons systems in nearly 40 years carry significant risks and uncertainties alongside key benefits. How should U.S. policy and posture change with the inclusion of digital technologies in nuclear weapons? In addition to the rewards of and improved functionality in command, control, communication, and warning, how might cybersecurity threats be mitigated to avert escalation from a cyber attack to nuclear war?

Bio:

Erin D. Dumbacher is a senior program officer at the Nuclear Threat Initiative focusing on cybersecurity, emerging technology, and nuclear security. Her recent publications include U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization: Security and Policy Implications of Integrating Digital Technology and Signals in the Noise: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation with Machine Learning & Publicly Available Information. She is a former strategy and research director in the private sector and received her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She began studying cyber and international security issues in Estonia in 2010 through a Fulbright Fellowship. Dumbacher is a Council on Foreign Relations term member, a member of Women in International Security, and an alumna of the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Mid-Career Cadre. She is also a former Board Member of SAIS Global Women in Leadership. Her writing has been published by IEEE's Computer, The Atlantic, National Journal, Government Executive, War on the Rocks, NextGov, the SAIS Review of International Affairs, and The Nonproliferation Review.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us as we host Christopher Eusebi of the RAND Corporation, who will be speaking to his work on Love and Danger - my experience as a target of the CCP.

Abstract:
You already are a target. Open source intelligence about your research can be used against you at Sliver. Let’s discuss “normal” open source methods nation state lurkers will use against you. I’ll share how my publications and associations led me into a three van convoy speeding through Anhui province with a crew straight out of central casting.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

There will be no meeting this week for the President's Day holiday.

Join us as we host Dr. Andrew Reddie of the UC Berkeley School of Information, who will be speaking to us on The Cyber-Nuclear Nexus and Strategic Stability.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week NPWG will be going through an interactive wargame, where group members will be put in the shoes of American policymakers tasked with responding to an international crisis.  Stay tuned for more information on the details of the game!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us as we host Rolf Mowatt-Larssen of the Belfer Center, who will be speaking on social engineering, strategic stability, and nuclear risk!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

There will be no NPWG meeting this week for Spring Break.

Join us for our semester's Keynote Presentation given by Dr. Herbert Lin.  Dr. Lin will be speaking about his new book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons.  The event is open to all, but requires registration!

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Join us as we host Leah Walker of the Institute for Security and Technology, who will be speaking to her work on emerging technologies and crisis communications!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us for a end-of-semester presentation and summary by our research team on the work they've done and any future plans for the research!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

There will be no meeting this week for Easter Monday.

Join us as we end the semester with a game of Nuclear Jeopardy, come prepared to put your nuclear trivia knowledge to the test!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us for our first NPWG meeting of the semester, where we'll be discussing our research and guest speaker plans for this winter!  All UC Berkeley and NSSC students are welcome to attend!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

No NPWG meeting this week for the Labor Day holiday!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be hosting our first guest speaker of the semester, Dr. Andrew Reddie, who will be giving a talk on the history of arms control!  See below for an abstract and bio.

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This week we will be beginning work and discussion on this semester's research project!  This semester, we will be investigating nuclear decision-making authority and how it can affect strategic stability and reduce nuclear risks.  The first part of this project will involve breaking into groups to research different countries' nuclear decision-making structures.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be hosting Dr. David Arceneaux, who will be speaking to us on nuclear command and control systems and nuclear decision making authority.  See below for an abstract and bio.

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This week we will be hosting Dr. Erik Brubaker, who will be speaking to us on an overview of arms control verification technologies, past and future!  See below for a bio and abstract.

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This week we will be continuing work and discussion on this semester's research project!  Stay tuned for more details soon.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be hosting Matt Korda of the Federation of American Scientists, who will be speaking to us on the role of open source intelligence techniques on the future of arms control!  Find his bio below:

Matt Korda is a senior research associate and project manager for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he coauthors the Nuclear Notebook––an authoritative estimate of global nuclear forces. Matt is also an associate researcher with the Weapons of Mass Destruction programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Previously, he worked for the Arms Control, Disarmament, and WMD Non-Proliferation Centre at NATO headquarters in Brussels. He received his MA in International Peace and Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Matt’s research interests and recent publications focus on nuclear deterrence and disarmament, progressive foreign policy, and the nexus between nuclear weapons, climate change, and injustice.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be continuing work and discussion on this semester's research project!  Stay tuned for more details soon.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

No NPWG meeting this week, Happy Halloween!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be co-hosting Ben Bahney and Jonathan Pearl from the Center for Global Security Research at LLNL with the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.  This will be an in person event hosted at Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 from 4:00-5:30pm!  See below for more event information:

Benjamin Bahney is a Senior Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) where he studies strategic competition in the 21st century in the areas of space, cyber, and advanced science and technology. His research interests include how these new areas of competition affect strategic stability, deterrence, and escalation management.

Dr. Jonathan Pearl is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). His work examines the implications of space, nuclear, and advanced technologies on national security and strategic competition. His research interests include deterrence, escalation control, arms control, nonproliferation, and strategic stability.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be continuing work and discussion on this semester's research project!  Stay tuned for more details soon.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be wrapping up our research project for this semester and going over results!  Stay tuned for more details soon.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

This week we will be co-hosting, with the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, our Keynote Speaker this semester, Amb. Rose Gottemoeller.  Amb. Gottemoeller will be speaking on the potential value of arms control and risk reduction strategies to manage the challenges presented by emerging technologies.

RSVP for the event here!

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!

Join us for an end-of-year celebration of NPWG!  More details will be available soon.

If you're interested in joining NPWG, please fill out the interest form http://bit.ly/JoinNPWG to be added to the mailing list!  If you have any questions or would like to learn more, send an email to austin_mullen@berkeley.edu, I'd be happy to talk!