China, Technology, and the Security Dilemma
In this episode, Elsa Kania joins Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes to assess how emerging technologies--including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fifth-generation telecommunications, and quantum communications--may affect China’s NC3. Kania concludes: “Although certain of these technologies …
Questioning Unitary Command: Nuclear Launch Authority and the N-Person Problem
In this segment, Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes are joined by Dr. Alex Wellerstein, who 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 response to recent domestic debates, the scope of his …
Deterred by the Uncertainties
In this episode, guest Fiona Cunningham joins hosts Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes to describe the origins of China’s NC3 system and its primary role in supporting China’s land-based missile force. She outlines recent developments including mobility, “informatization” and automation of parts of the …
The Curse of Flexibility
In this segment, Nancy Leveson joins Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes to make the case that using conservative techniques and avoiding unnecessarily complex software in critical functions in NC3 systems circumvented nuclear catastrophe in the past. Today, she concludes, a new approach is needed that a…
Is the Enemy in the System?
Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes sit down with Dr. Jon Lindsay, who argues that the prospect of offensive cyber operations targeting NC3 introduce "a number of under-appreciated risks of organizational breakdown, decision making confusion, and rational incentives to misrepresent the balance of power i…
Complexity is the Enemy of Security
Philip Reiner is joined by guest Eric Grosse, who makes the case that for information security at extreme scales, complexity is the enemy of security. Using the example of Gmail, he calls for a return to basics. "For the very highest security needs such as NC3, we ought to return to basics and hard…
The System Can't Be Perfect
In this podcast, Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes sit down with Dr. John Harvey, who 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 War’s “multiple choice test”—that is, which major att…
Grand Tactics and the Thin Skin of Civilization
In the first episode of The Fourth Leg, Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes sit down with Dr. Paul Bracken for an overview of NC3 tactics and global stability. In a conventional conflict between the United States and China or Russia, each belligerent might attack the other’s command, control, communicati…
The Coming Age of Agentic AI
In this episode of TechnologIST Talks, IST CEO Philip Reiner is joined by Dr. Margaret Mitchell, a computer scientist and researcher focused on machine learning and ethics informed AI development. She currently serves as Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face, where she studies ML data processing, …
Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
Philip Reiner joins us to talk about nuclear, command, control and communications systems.
Learn more about Philip’s work: https://securityandtechnology.org/
Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Introduction
[00:00:50] Nuclear command, control, and communications
[00:03:52] Old technology in nuclear system…
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