Gorbachev’s unofficial arms-control advisers

Unofficial Qualifications

“ Does Governance Explain Unofficial Activity ?

Taking control of prosthetic arms.

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Arms Control and Intelligence Explosions

A number of commentators have argued that some time in the 21st century humanity will develop generally intelligent software programs at least as capable as skilled humans, whether designed ab initio or as emulations of human brains, and that such entities will launch an extremely rapid technological transformation as they design their own successors. The speed of such a “Singularity” or “intel...

Arms Control of Robotic Weapons

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2009.931862 W ith the development of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, robotic weapons came of age. The operations of this Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern Africa in the last few years have given us a glimpse of the future of high-tech war [6], [14], [24]. It is a future in which thousands of miles separate those f...