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What Does Ransomware Have to Do with War and Peace: IST’s Contributions to the Final UN OEWG Negotiation Session
IST joined the eleventh and final substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Security of and in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies this week at the UN. While there, we participated in a side event on the Brazil Ransomware Task Force.
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United Nations
July 10, 2025
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Live at the United Nations: IST Joins Forces with Germany and Switzerland to Push for Progress on Nuclear Risk Reduction
At NPTPrepCom last week, IST and the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation hosted a dialogue on preventing and managing nuclear crises sponsored by key CATALINK supporters, the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
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United Nations
May 8, 2025
Event
April 30, 2025 12:15 pm
Preventing and Managing Nuclear Crises in the 21st Century
In a side event at the 2025 Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom at the United Nations, IST and the VCDNP co-hosted a panel discussion to investigate how states can more readily reduce the risks of and ultimately prevent nuclear crises and conflicts in the 21st century.
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April 30, 2025
Blog
Hotlines for the Digital Age: Improving communications in cyber-generated national security crises
What do countries that don’t have regular high-level security communications pathways do when their critical digital infrastructure is under cyber attack, and the cyber attack appears to be coming from the territory of a country on the other side of the globe? An ongoing negotiation convened under the United Nations First Committee is building a structure to make clear and urgent communication on cybersecurity incidents accessible to every government.
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July 6, 2023
Podcast
Are All Legal Bets Off?
William Boothby joins The Fourth Leg's Philip Reiner and Peter Hayes for a discussion on the legal limits surrounding the use of nuclear weapons.
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United Nations
October 31, 2019
Report
Law, Targeting and Nuclear Weapons
This report by William Boothby seeks to explain the law of armed conflict rules that regulate respectively the resort to nuclear force and the use of nuclear force during an international armed conflict and to provide an accepted baseline for the dissemination of the law with a view to achieving a common understanding and acceptance of it by all nuclear States.
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October 21, 2019
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