New War Machines : The Nuclear Age and Its Dangerous Successors

How new military technologies require radically new thinking about peace, war, national security, and international orderDangerous military technologies are spreading to great powers, secondary, and even tertiary powers. Many more countries have access to nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles, killer drones, cyber war, laser death rays, quantum radar, and designer bioweapons. AI’s role is to coordinate this ecosystem of new war machines. Yale professor Paul Bracken presents a guide, in clear non-technical language, to the military and political realities to the days ahead. He argues that the arms race the world now faces require a big picture strategic view—one that focuses not on individual technologies but on how interconnected weapons make the coming years far more dangerous than are realized. Bracken adopts “possible worlds” theory, used in AI, technology management, and business to analyze the wars and arms races ahead. In an era when disruptive technologies are rapidly increasing, Bracken shows us new ways of thinking about survival and arms control in an all too multipolar world.