Social Media Storms and Early Warning Systems: A Deep Dive and Speed Scenarios Workshop

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In 2018, IST, the Preventative Defense Project at Stanford University, Nautilus Institute, and N2 Collaborative hosted a workshop on social media storms and early warning systems.

This workshop was convened because social media burst onto the stage of nuclear warfare in 2018. In the Asia-Pacific region alone, six instances of social media playing a role in nuclear-prone conflicts occurred between August 2017 and January 2018. For decades, strategists have worried about the possibility that states armed with nuclear weapons might mistakenly launch a nuclear strike due to a false alarm originating in its early warning system or due to degraded decision-making.

Institute for Security and Technology | Preventative Defense Project, Stanford University | Nautilus Institute | N2 Collaborative

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