BRSL Events

This webinar will walk through the purpose, capabilities, and use of the Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Simulator, a recently launched web application that enables quick and easy modeling of the flight performance of hypersonic missiles. In addition to covering detailed use cases for this tool, it will walk through BRSL’s broader work on the integration of technical analysis into global security analysis.

Dr. Cameron Tracy, BRSL Senior Research Scholar in conversation with Dr. David Wright, Research Affiliate of the Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy at MIT, and Justin Ly, Graduate Student in the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) program at Santa Clara University.

Dr. Ariel Petrovics will present her recent edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them. These efforts are considered fundamental to reducing the likelihood of nuclear catastrophe. Yet, no tool is guaranteed to succeed and some may even have unanticipated, counterproductive consequences for international security. In a field fixated on finding solutions, this book instead warns readers not to lose sight of the drivers and often calamitous effects of failed nuclear policies.

Dr. Ariel Petrovics, Visiting Scholar at the University of Denver’s Korbel School of International Affairs, Research Associate at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy.

Bailey Ulbricht will present initial findings from ongoing scholarship examining the possible demise of international law’s prohibition on the use of force and a potential – if not uncontroversial – pathway forward leveraging a long-standing international legal principle known as necessity. The aim of this talk is to foster honest reflections about international law and to attempt to chart a pathway forward.

Bailey Ulbricht, Executive Director, Stanford Humanitarian Program, Stanford University.