Virtual Library

Our virtual library is an online repository of all of the reports, papers, and briefings that IST has produced, as well as works that have influenced our thinking.

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Fact Sheet

DOD and SBA Launch the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology (SBICCT) Initiative

Strategic Balancing Initiative

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Fact Sheet

White House Releases Outbound Investment Executive Order

Strategic Balancing Initiative

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Reports

Strengthening Resilience in 21st Century Crisis Communications

Alexa Wehsener, Sylvia Mishra

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Fact Sheet

DoD Releases the National Defense Science and Technology Strategy

Strategic Balancing Initiative

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Reports

Mapping Threat Actor Behavior in the Ransomware Payment Ecosystem: A Mini-Pilot

Zoë Brammer

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Reports

May 2023 Progress Report: Ransomware Task Force: Gaining Ground

Ransomware Task Force

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Reports

Castles Built on Sand: Towards Securing the Open-Source Software Ecosystem

Zoë Brammer, Silas Cutler, Marc Rogers, Megan Stifel

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Nuclear Crisis Communications: Mapping Risk Reduction Implementation Pathways

Sylvia Mishra

SUMMARY

Over the past few years, an international consensus has been converging on nuclear risk reduction, and tangible implementation proposals have focused on nuclear crisis communications systems.

There are at least two scalable pathways to a crisis communications system:

  1. The P5 focus on effective crisis communications in their ongoing P5 Process and Strategic Risk Reduction Working Group.
  2. The P5 states and Stockholm Initiative members lead a working group on crisis communication.

The two proposed pathways can tackle existing challenges. The first pathway could help stimulate the P5 Process and encourage continuation of dialogue among the P5 about practical implementations for crisis communication systems. The second pathway would act as a bridge between nuclear weapons states and non-nuclear weapons states and strengthen the process of global accountability in the context of risk reduction and crisis communication.

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