Upcoming Events

Research Webinar: Dr. Christopher Lawrence in conversation with BRSL's Dr. Cameron Tracy

The Balance of Nuclear Humility: Techno-optimism, Complexity, and the Perils of Nuclear Primacy

Overview: This research seminar will cover Dr. Lawrence’s recent research on the diverse ways in which states plan out their nuclear weapons arsenals. While some field large numbers of weapons, chasing nuclear dominance over adversaries, others are content with smaller arsenals, deemed sufficient to deter adversaries from attacking. This analysis builds on quantitative modeling of strategic nuclear strikes, showing correlations between the scale of a state’s nuclear arsenal and uncertainties in its strategic effects.

Date: Monday, June 9th, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM, Pacific Time

Location: GSPP-Hearst-Classroom-105 Cap:52

Speakers: Dr. Christopher Lawrence, Dr. Cameron Tracy

Add to Calendar

Your Title Goes Here

Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.

Click Here

The LLM Mirage: Economic Interests and the Subversion of Weaponization Controls

LLM Mirage, the belief that national security risks scale in proportion to the compute used to train frontier language models, is shaping U.S. AI security policy. This piece unpacks why that belief may be misguided.

Ritwik Gupta, Andrew Reddie

Read More

The Key Challenges of Governing Commercial Spyware

Explaining key issues holding up progress in commercial spyware governance.

Dr. Elaine Korzak

Read More

Regulating Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls

Insights offered by the Wassenaar export controls into the regulation of commercial spyware — and why that, in turn, makes them instructive for current initiatives like the Pall Mall Process.

Dr. Elaine Korazak

Read More

Sanctions in an Era of Strategic Competition

As sanctions become a widely-used tool of state power, their effectiveness — particularly regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine — has been called into question, prompting a re-evaluation of the theory behind them.

read more

Classical Strategic Theory and the Link between Economics and Security

This chapter traces the evolving relationship between economics and security within classical strategic thought, showing how attention to geoeconomic factors varies across the canon of strategic studies as part of a broader challenge to integrate economic concerns with those of grand strategy, maritime and air power, and industrial-era competition.

James Lee, Thomas Mahnken, Andrew Reddie

read more