2017 Speakers

The Islamic State (IS or ISIL) movement has been in existence for over a decade in its various forms. Duringthis period, and certainly more recently, authors and filmmakers have produced an increasing number ofblogs,

Machines are increasingly helping humans with cognitive tasks in addition to physical labor. Like the industrial revolution, this transition in how societies use machines will have major impacts on the security of states and the character of armed conflict.

Watch Now India and Pakistan are taking nuclear weapons to sea, China is continuing its rotational naval presence and adding a permanent military base in the region, and the United States is struggling to meet global commitments with an overstretched maritime force.

Watch Now In a January 2017 New Yorker article, "The Atomic Origins of Climate Science: How arguments about nuclear weapons shaped the debate over nuclear warming," Harvard Professor Jill Lepore

Watch Now U.S. allies in NATO Europe and the Asia-Pacific (above all, Australia, Japan, and South Korea) have been "aligned by default," owing to their shared reliance on U.S. extended

This project examines the efficacy of coercion in cyberspace. We develop a theory that cyber operations are a form of covert coercion typically seeking to send ambiguous signals or demonstrate resolve.

Watch Now Software "vulnerabilities" are security flaws that can be exploited to launch cyberattacks. Normally the vendors of IT products seek to patch such bugs soon after they are discovered.

Watch NowThe literature on the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons emphasizes the role of external security threats as the primary motive for states to acquire and use these weapons.

Watch Now What should be U.S. strategic declaratory and employment policies to counter China's regional expansionism and growing nuclear, cyber, and space capabilities?

Watch Now The use of sarin gas in Syria and the nerve agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong-nam, and ongoing efforts in brain science by both nations and…

Watch Now In this talk, Professor Lawson will outline his research into the variations and potential effects of cyber-doom rhetoric. He argues that cyber-doom rhetoric is the latest manifestation of longstanding fears of technology out-of-control in Western societies.

Watch Now High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employeeswith access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials.

Watch Now DoD's Defense Science Board (DSB) recently completed a 3-part study addressing current and projected WMD threats.

Watch Now With its ballistic missile and nuclear tests, North Korea is on the verge of a strategic breakout that could directly threaten the U.S. homeland.

Watch Now With the Russian government hack of the Democratic National Convention email servers and related leaks, the drama of the 2016 U.S. presidential race highlights an important point.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Patriot Act expanded U.S. government's authorities to surveil suspected terrorists in order to prevent future attacks.

Watch Now Space capabilities are increasingly critical to national defense, and commercial space firms are reshaping space capabilities in the U.S. and globally.

The Defense Science Board (DSB) study reviewed current and future ballistic and cruise missile threats and assessed the implications to the survivability of critical U.S. forward-based war-fighting assets.

Watch Now Synthetic biology and other emerging biotechnologies are poised to change the future of medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Watch Now While cybersecurity discussions at the United Nations date back to 1998, they have only meaningfully progressed in the past six years.

Over the past decade, an increasing drumbeat of analysis has focused on the "decline" of the U.S. space program, the vulnerability of its assets, and the gloomy prospects for its future competition with China and Russia.

In contrast to the rest of the world where nuclear weapons stockpiles have been gradually reducing, China, India, and Pakistan remain today the only countries whose nuclear weapons inventories are growing.

Watch Now This talk is intended to tee up a discussion on complexity/security trade-offs in acyber context.