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SUMMARY:Nukes of Hazard: Mapping the Risks Emerging Technologies Pose to N
 uclear Weapons Modernization - Dr Heather Roff\, University of Oxford\, Un
 iversity of Cambridge\, Arizona State university\, New America Washington 
 DC 
DTSTART:20170925T161500Z
DTEND:20170925T174500Z
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CONTACT:Jens Steffensen
DESCRIPTION:Despite President Trump’s claims that his first order was 
 “to renovate and modernize” the US nuclear arsenal\, efforts at nuclea
 r modernization began in 2014 under former President Barack Obama. The pla
 n is expected to cost upwards of $1 trillion dollars over the life cycle o
 f the new systems\, with $400 billion of that spent through 2024. The mode
 rnization efforts are required if the US nuclear triad—ground based miss
 iles\, bombers and submarines—are to be a credible deterrent. However\, 
 there is more to upgrading from 8-inch floppy disks and 9-track tape. The 
 information communications structures\, which run from the Pentagon to eac
 h launch platform at home and abroad\, require modernizing. Yet the risks 
 of overhauling the entire nuclear arsenal is not merely about new warheads
  or missiles but reaches into the very structure of command and control. T
 his talk will focus on two types of emerging technologies that pose signif
 icant risks to ageing nuclear weapons arsenals and command\, control and c
 ommunications (C3) architectures: those related to automation and artifici
 al intelligence (AI) and their application to surveillance and warning and
  decision aides.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDr Heather M. Roff is a Senior Re
 search Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at
  the University of Oxford\, a Research Scientist at the Global Security In
 itiative at the Arizona State University\, a Fellow at the Leverhulme Cent
 re for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge\, and las
 tly a Fellow at the New America\, Washington DC\, Cybersecurity Initiative
 \, Future of War Project.
LOCATION:Winstanley L.T.\, Trinity College
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