The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand


In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial intelligence, America Needs a “Dead Hand”. Two nuclear war strategy experts with significant academic and military credentials argued that the modernization of the nation’s nuclear-armed triad of missiles, bombers, and submarines must include a command, communication, and control system (NC3) operated by artificial intelligence.

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