Australian National University
Project Title
For a project on new technologies, new risks, and sea-launched nuclear weapons
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
45 months
Description
Prevailing wisdom holds that of all nuclear weapons platforms, submarines provide the greatest stability as a stealthy, survivable deterrent. Today, advances in networked sensors, data processing, machine learning, and undersea autonomous vehicles may start to call this assumption into question. Through this project, Australia National University (ANU) will assess technological developments to better understand whether increased ocean transparency might affect crisis stability or trigger a new arms race. ANU will focus on the Asia Pacific region and the implications of these changes for the United States, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and North Korea.