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Risk Factor special issue: the Army named the gap. Now the clock.
Washington, October 14, 2026. The Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting closes today at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center after three days and more than 750 exhibits. On Monday morning, in a media roundtable on the...
Everything on the table, Part 5
The Treaty Test, Part 5. The AI instruments of 2022 to 2026, scored against the three gates. None binds a rival. What the chip chokepoint is worth, answered honestly.
Bottom Line Up Front
The two treaties worth writing
Bottom Line Up Front
This series ends where Part 1 said it would: with two treaties worth writing, drafted to pass the three gates. The first is a compute verification convention for frontier AI. It caps nothing. It requires states to de...
The regime that works - Part 4
Bottom Line Up Front
The Chemical Weapons Convention is the one treaty on a dual-use technology whose verification reaches into an ordinary commercial industry, plant by plant, and it is the reference case for this series. It was built i...
The Treaty Test, Part 3
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The Biological Weapons Convention prohibits an entire class of weapons without providing a standing system to verify compliance. The strongest objection to fixing that gap is serious: biology is deeply dual-use, legi...
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