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Jul 1, 2026

Insights from table-top exercises in Europe on AI safety and cyber misuse

This report presents findings from table-top exercises with senior policymakers in Germany, the Netherlands, and France, identifying governance gaps and capability priorities for responding to AI-enabled cyberattack crises.
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Mar 9, 2026

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Cyber Surprise Scenario: Post-Series Scenario Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

This report summarizes the results of six runs of Day After AGI games using the Cyber Surprise scenario, where players confronted the sudden deployment of a powerful cyber-artificial intelligence capability by the People’s Republic of China and the implications for the United States.
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Dec 5, 2023

China's Global Energy Interconnection: Exploring the Security Implications of a Power Grid Developed and Governed by China

The authors of this report demystify the potential global security implications associated with the Global Energy Interconnection—China’s important but poorly understood initiative to establish a global power grid.
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Dec 15, 2022

Time for Resilient Critical Material Supply Chain Policies

This report is an exploratory analysis summarizing the state of two critical material supply chains and options for the U.S. Department of Defense to prevent or mitigate supply disruptions affecting the defense industrial base and national security.
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Jan 1, 2003

New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking

Addresses the new challenges for defense policy in a world transformed by the end of the Cold War and then the war on terrorism, and sketches new analytic techniques for framing particular defense issues.
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Jan 1, 1998

Cyberpayments and Money Laundering: Problems and Promise

At the request of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), RAND conducted and analyzed a strategic decisionmaking exercise to examine money laundering concerns raised by the deployment of cyberpayment systems.
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Jan 1, 1996

An Exploration of Cyberspace Security R&D Investment Strategies for DARPA: ''The Day After...in Cyberspace II''

A RAND-developed ''The Day After...'' exercise methodology has been used to explore strategic planning options, both for nuclear proliferation and counter-proliferation, and for questions involving "security in cyberspace" and "information warfare" (IW).
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Jan 1, 1996

Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War

Future U.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing, rapid evolution of cyberspace -- the global information infrastructure.
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Jan 1, 1993

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World Volume III, Exercise Materials

This Annex to the "Day After..." project reports on the implications of nuclear proliferation for U.S. national security.
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Jan 1, 1993

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World Volume I, Summary Report

This study reports the results and analysis of a series of policy exercises conducted under RAND's "The Day After ... " project -- a study conducted for the Air Force that explored the implications of nuclear proliferation for U.S. national security strategy and policy in the post-Cold War world.
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Jan 1, 1993

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World-Volume II, Main Report

This report documents the results of four series of policy exercises conducted under "The Day After..." project.

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Insights from table-top exercises in Europe on AI safety and cyber misuse

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Cyber Surprise Scenario: Post-Series Scenario Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

China's Global Energy Interconnection: Exploring the Security Implications of a Power Grid Developed and Governed by China

Time for Resilient Critical Material Supply Chain Policies

New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking

Cyberpayments and Money Laundering: Problems and Promise

An Exploration of Cyberspace Security R&D Investment Strategies for DARPA: ''The Day After...in Cyberspace II''

Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World Volume III, Exercise Materials

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World Volume I, Summary Report

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World-Volume II, Main Report

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Insights from table-top exercises in Europe on AI safety and cyber misuse

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Cyber Surprise Scenario: Post-Series Scenario Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

China's Global Energy Interconnection: Exploring the Security Implications of a Power Grid Developed and Governed by China

Time for Resilient Critical Material Supply Chain Policies

New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking

Cyberpayments and Money Laundering: Problems and Promise

An Exploration of Cyberspace Security R&D Investment Strategies for DARPA: ''The Day After...in Cyberspace II''

Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World Volume III, Exercise Materials

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World Volume I, Summary Report

“The Day After...” Study: Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Cold War World-Volume II, Main Report

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