Deadline on January 6!
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Deadline on January 6!
Fully funded (and salaried!) PhD positions to study the impact of AI and autonomous systems for strategic and military affairs in Stockholm! Deadline for applications on 6 January!
"With science, one can explain everything except onself." - Enrico Fermi
📢The Swedish Defence University is recruiting TWO fully-funded, salaried PhD positions to conduct research on Artificial Intelligence and War, supported by the national WASP-HS programme - a unique opportunity. Please share widely! www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...
Daniel Ellsberg in 1959 on the political uses of madness, the extraordinary case of Adolf Hitler & its implications in a nuclear age: "What Hitler was, no man - we must hope - aspires to be. But what Hitler knew, others can learn and use. And win with it - until they fail, and smash all humankind."
Last call for papers for this conference in Venice next year!
“There was never from about 2 weeks from the time I took charge [of the atomic bomb] project any illusion on my part but that Russia was our enemy and the project was conducted on that basis.”
- General Leslie Groves, testifying at the J. R. Oppenheimer hearing in 1954
⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
Legal settlement with AI company Anthropic means authors may be in line for compensation if their work was used to train models.
🚨 CALL TO PAPERS 🚨
Honoured to be delivering a keynote at the 8th International PhD Congress at Ca' Foscari University of Venice held from 18 to 20 February 2026. call to papers is out for contributions on "systems and knowledge." Deadline: 09 November 2025 www.unive.it/web/en/8275/...
An excellent video on the past and perhaps future of Project Orion, the Cold War plan for space travel powered by nuclear detonations.
Words to ponder as we develop thinking machines whose inner workings are increasingly inscrutable and whose discoveries might soon surpass our understanding... From Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)
I am interviewed on one of the Dagens Industri podcasts on the topic of the new landscape of military tech innovation.
Good point, I guess it would be the burst point. The shadow is the hypocentre properly speaking.
Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall. The red ball indicates the hypocentre of the nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945.
My revisiting of The Scientific Way of Warfare in 2023: “The Persistent Appeal of Chaoplexic Warfare: Towards an Autonomous S(war)m Machine?” fhs.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
A quarter of a century on from its advocacy by the likes of Ronfeldt and Aquilla, the mode of chaoplexic warfare I described in my first book still remains the unfulfilled horizon of the military imaginary, always just around the corner yet perpetually deferred.
“Scientists aren’t responsible for the facts that are in nature. It’s their job to find the facts. There’s no sin connected with it – no morals. If anyone should have a sense of sin, it’s God. He put the facts there." (Percy Bridgman, Robert Oppenheimer's undergraduate teacher)
Einstein on relative difficulty of physics and politics (from John Herz, International Politics in the Atomic Age, 1959)
The Sedan crater left by the shallow underground nuclear test (104kt) conducted in Nevada in July 1962 for research into using nukes for construction projects. 390m wide by 100m deep, it helped determine that ancient craters formed on earth and beyond result from meteor strikes, not volcanoes.
“The technical arrogance that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds”
Job opening at the Swedish Defence University for an Associate Senior Lecturer in System Science for Defence and Security with a specialization in cyber defence. Scholars with social science and STS backgrounds welcome! fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Leo Szilard, How to Live with the Bomb and Survive (1960)
Finally, the first english translation of Günther Anders's most important work!
“We have, in a real sense, reached a kind of “singularity”—but not the long-anticipated awakening of machine consciousness. Rather, what we’re entering is a new consciousness of ourselves.”
Second postdoc opening at the Swedish Defence University for work on narrative politics for those with quants skills (incl. machine learning, data mining, etc.) - Deadline 31 August.
Opening for a three year postdoc with a focus on narrative geopolitics at our place! Deadline on 31 August.
Open seminar at SEDU on 19 May (live broadcast available): Whose nuclear umbrella in 2040?
🚨Register now for the Global Nuclear Order annual conference🚨
'Rethinking nuclear deterrence in an era of strategic uncertainty' - Friday 25 April 2025 on Zoom.
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