Upcoming Events
Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls
Examination of how multilateral export controls can be used to constrain commercial spyware and address human rights, national security and nonproliferation concerns stemming from the misuse of spyware technologies.
Multi-stage phase transformation pathways in MAX phases
Developments in predicting and understanding phase transformations in MAX phases.
Shuang Zhao, Hao Xiao, Yuxin Li, Zijun Zhang, Yugang Wang, Qing Huang, Liuxuan Cao, Fei Gao, Cameron L. Tracy, Rodney. C. Ewing & Chenxu Wang
The Hawley Act Threatens AI Innovation
Context for a broader chapter in the recent Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft, published with the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
3/6/25 The Enduring Role of Los Alamos National Laboratory in National Security
Date: Thursday, March 6th Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, 2595 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley Time: 5:00-6:30 pm PT Speaker: Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason Recent geopolitical conditions have put Los Alamos National Laboratory’s national...
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium
Analysis of U.S. plans to dispose of excess weapons plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository in southeastern New Mexico.
Whack-A-Chip: The Futility of Hardware-Centric Export Controls
The first public evidence of how Chinese firms like Tencent circumvent export controls on semiconductors by using hardware workarounds and maximizing software efficiency, and what that means for the future of the United States’ export control strategy.