Secure World Foundation
Project Title
For a space bootcamp and a nuclear-space-commercial dialogue
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent advancements in outer space have fundamentally altered traditional notions of strategic stability between nuclear powers. More than ever before, actions, capabilities, and competition in space can have nuclear consequences. Yet many nuclear security professionals lack the training and expertise needed to understand space security and its implications. At the same time, the commercial sector has drastically changed the outer space environment in recent years, upending approaches to space security that were traditionally government-led. In today’s environment, it is entirely feasible that a nuclear-inciting incident could be started by a non-state actor due to actions taken in orbit. With Corporation support, Secure World Foundation (SWF) will develop an in-person set of nuclear-space bootcamps primarily for early-career nuclear security professionals. SWF will also develop a new dialogue among experts from the nuclear security, space security, and commercial space communities to propose solutions to pressing space-nuclear strategic security challenges.