Homeland Security and Public Safety

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Nuclear Testing: A Second Coming?
Vladimir Putin's Russia is again rattling its nuclear saber. Putin has hinted that Russia might, as one option, resume nuclear testing. The United States and NATO must carefully consider their nuclear responses.
Sep 12, 2024

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Equity and Social Policy: Q&A with Jessica Welburn Paige
Jessica Welburn Paige, a behavioral and social scientist, focuses on questions of race and inequality. In this interview, she discusses how AI programs being used to monitor students for suicide risk could compromise student privacy and harm vulnerable students.
Sep 3, 2024
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Social Media Manipulation in the Era of AI
AI has opened a potential propaganda gold mine. Large language models like ChatGPT can learn to mimic human speech. They can respond to jokes and cultural references and engage users in debates. Social media platforms should redouble their efforts to identify, attribute, and remove fake accounts.
Aug 29, 2024
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Cultivating the Magic Sauce for Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary significantly by location, highlighting the need to identify and disseminate best practices from high-performing communities. What are the key factors that improve survival?
Aug 27, 2024
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Don't Ever Invade China: Xi Jinping Prioritizes Border, Coastal, and Air Defense
China's national defense policy prioritizes safeguarding national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights with an emphasis on border, coastal, and air defense. Leader Xi Jinping underscored mainland defense in a recent speech. What does Beijing’s carefully crafted, high-profile political signaling tell us?
Aug 27, 2024
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Addressing the National Security Risks of Bulk Data in the Age of AI 
There is an urgent need for a more nuanced and empirically grounded approach to data regulation, one that recognizes how seemingly innocuous data points can, when amassed in large quantities, pose substantial risks to national security.
Aug 23, 2024
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Rampant Nationalism Is Undermining China's 'Three Warfares'
China has invested a fortune in influence operations to shape its national image and sway international public opinion in its favor. Yet grassroots Chinese nationalists are diminishing the return on Beijing's investment.
Aug 23, 2024
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Four Fallacies of AI Cybersecurity
The cybersecurity of AI systems has largely been treated as an afterthought. Success in this area will require recognizing the unique challenges of securing AI systems, developing the right threat models, and fully integrating cybersecurity into the AI workflow.
Aug 23, 2024
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Realizing the Power of Community in Disaster Recovery
Communities—not governments—are often the primary agents driving disaster recovery. Understanding their needs, improving resource allocation, and measuring results can better leverage the community's power and promote successful disaster management preparation, responses, and outcomes.
Aug 23, 2024
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It's Time to Designate Venezuela as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
In light of the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the strengthened Tehran-Hezbollah-Caracas axis now presents a major security threat for the Latin American and Caribbean region. The U.S. government should designate Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism and crack down on its brazen violation of international law.
Aug 22, 2024
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Bolstering the Role of Emergency Departments as Part of the Nation's Critical Infrastructure
Emergency departments are on the front line of the nation's response to mass-casualty incidents, disasters, and public health emergencies. They need adequate resources and they need to be systematically incorporated into local, state, and regional disaster networks.
Aug 22, 2024
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A Plan to Address Political Violence Before Election Day
As the presidential election nears, the threat of political violence looms large. What can be done to protect candidates, election workers, voters, and the electoral process at the heart of American democracy?
Aug 21, 2024
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Community-Driven Recovery: The Lahaina Wildfires a Year Later
Lahaina can benefit tremendously from a community-driven approach to identifying recovery needs. This involves working closely with survivors themselves to understand their housing, health, economic, social, and other needs.
Aug 16, 2024
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TikTok Is a Threat to National Security, but Not for the Reason You Think
Most videos that Americans post on social media are harmless at face value, but the 34 million videos posted daily on TikTok become ideal training material for generative AI models. These models will be able to create astonishingly convincing deepfakes that could be used in influence operations.
Aug 14, 2024
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The UK Should Be Careful Not to Hand the Middle East to China
The UK's commitment to its relationship with Oman remains stable but it should not take its position west of India for granted. As the UK turns its gaze to the Indo-Pacific, Beijing is moving to strengthen its relations with Oman and increase its influence in the region.
Aug 13, 2024
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Building Flood Resilience: A Grand Challenge for U.S. Water Policy
Flooding has become the most expensive and frequent disaster in the United States. Since 2000, flooding events occur almost daily, and the cost of inland flooding alone in 2023 was nearly $200 billion. Managing flood risk requires transformations in land use, regulation, insurance, and financing.
Aug 9, 2024

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Ukraine's Kursk offensive was a tactical masterstroke that changed the geometry of the battlefield by extending Russian lines and obliging them to rethink their force allocation assumptions. This changes the military calculus.

Ann Marie Dailey

Policy Researcher

Source: The National Interest

While it may not be obvious to patients, AI is already integrated into daily health care systems, from predicting which patients are likely to develop infections to forecasting missed appointments. Other uses are not fully developed: while ChatGPT has demonstrated success on a number of medical board exams, hospitals are not outsourcing actual medical care to computers yet.

Shira H. Fischer

Physician Policy Researcher

Source: rand.org

The Veterans Left Behind: Eligibility for VA Benefits and Other Than Honorable Discharges

U.S. Military Basing and Access in the Indo-Pacific

Ukraine's 'Masterstroke' Kursk Offensive Is About Geometry, not Geography

Disinformation May Thrive as Transparency Deteriorates Across Social Media

Climate Change and Critical Infrastructure: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Mitigation Strategies

The Policy Currents Podcast

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Improving Access to Early Childhood Education

Homeland Security and Public Safety

Nuclear Testing: A Second Coming?

Equity and Social Policy: Q&A with Jessica Welburn Paige

Social Media Manipulation in the Era of AI

Cultivating the Magic Sauce for Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Don't Ever Invade China: Xi Jinping Prioritizes Border, Coastal, and Air Defense

Addressing the National Security Risks of Bulk Data in the Age of AI

Rampant Nationalism Is Undermining China's 'Three Warfares'

Four Fallacies of AI Cybersecurity

Realizing the Power of Community in Disaster Recovery

It's Time to Designate Venezuela as a State Sponsor of Terrorism

Bolstering the Role of Emergency Departments as Part of the Nation's Critical Infrastructure

A Plan to Address Political Violence Before Election Day

Community-Driven Recovery: The Lahaina Wildfires a Year Later

TikTok Is a Threat to National Security, but Not for the Reason You Think

The UK Should Be Careful Not to Hand the Middle East to China

Building Flood Resilience: A Grand Challenge for U.S. Water Policy

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