Guest author, Peter Rautenbach, explores the challenges of Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) weapons, and looks to arms control to mitigate the ensuing risks.
Technological Risk

BASIC Policy Intern, Fabian Hoffmann, Publishes New Report on Cruise Missile Proliferation
One of BASIC’s talented Policy Interns, Fabian Hoffmann, has published a report with the European…

Strategic Upheaval, Overhyped, or Something in Between? Forecasting the Relative Impacts of Cyber and Space Technologies
This is an extract from an article written by Marina Favaro and published by the…

Chapter: Prospects for Game-Changers in Detection Technology
We are delighted to share this new short chapter, ‘Prospects for Game-Changers in Detection Technology’,…

Drones, Swarming and the Future of Warfare
The meeting heard from two speakers about how the emergence of new drone technologies were changing the dynamics of war.

UK’s nuclear submarines vulnerable to ‘catastrophic’ cyber attack sparking nuclear conflict, warn experts
Following its publication, the Independent reported on the findings of BASIC’s cyber security report, Hacking…

UK’s Trident nuclear submarines ‘vulnerable to catastrophic hack’
In June 2017, the Guardian pubished an article exploring some of the key themes of BASIC's cyber security report, Hacking UK Trident. It acknowledged some of Tridents' cyber vulnerabilities, as identified in the report and gauged the reaction of Des Browne, the former UK defence secretary:

Report highlights Trident nuclear hack vulnerabilities
BASIC’s cyber security report, Hacking UK Trident recently featured in a number of national and international defence publications and media pages.