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Projects tackling nuclear risk?

May 29 20201 min read3 answers 0

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Existential riskNuclear security

Projects tackling nuclear risk?

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HaukeHillebrandt

The Nuclear Threat Initiative works on this.

I don't know much about them but I believe the British American S...

The Precipice sets out a number of longtermist policy ideas. These include:

Restart the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).
Renew the New START arms control treaty, due to expire in February 2021.
Take US ICBMs off hair-trigger alert (officially called Launch on Warning).

Does anyone know of projects working on this? Preferably ones which could use a modest donation (e.g. low 5-figure sum) to work on this sort of thing.

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May 30, 2020

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I'd suggest considering:

Arms control association https://www.armscontrol.org/
Nuclear Threat Initiative https://www.nti.org/about/global-nuclear-policy/

Hauke Hillebrandt

May 30, 2020

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The Nuclear Threat Initiative works on this.

Also see:

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/nuclear-threat-initiative-projects-to-reduce-global-catastrophic-biological-risks

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I don't know much about them but I believe the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) support these policies in the UK (INF, hair-trigger).

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