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This book provides a coherent, innovative, and multidisciplinary examination of the potential effects of AI technology on nuclear strategy and escalation risk. Its findings have significant theoretical and policy ramifications, as well as contributing to the literature on the impact of military force and technological change.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: AI and nuclear weapons
- 1: Strategic stability: A perfect storm of nuclear risk?
- 2: Nuclear deterrence: New challenges for deterrence theory and practice
- 3: Inadvertent escalation: A new model for nuclear risk
- 4: AI-security dilemma: Insecurity, mistrust, and misperception under the nuclear shadow
- 5: Catalytic nuclear war: New 'Nth country problem' in the digital age?
- Conclusion: Managing the AI-nuclear strategic nexus
- Index
About the author
James Johnson is a Lecturer in Strategic Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Leicester, a Non-Resident Associate on the ERC-funded 'Towards a Third Nuclear Age' Project, and a Mid-Career Cadre with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University, a Non-Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey.
Summary
This book provides a coherent, innovative, and multidisciplinary examination of the potential effects of AI technology on nuclear strategy and escalation risk. Its findings have significant theoretical and policy ramifications, as well as contributing to the literature on the impact of military force and technological change.
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The book seems intended for theorists and scholars of strategic studies, but it should also be crucial reading for policy-makers, especially from nuclear states.
