FSI researchers strive to understand how countries relate to one another, and what policies are needed to achieve global stability and prosperity. International relations experts focus on the challenging U.S.-Russian relationship, the alliance between the U.S. and Japan and the limitations of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
The Security Implications of Information Technology
Abstract
Information
access and distribution is expanding exponentially. Recent technological advancements have created a state of
information openness where the general public has easy access both to a wealth
of information previously available only for select government agencies and to
a large array of communication-collaboration tools that can further develop and
disseminate content. This information, or cyber, openness is having a profound
impact on society at large and has equally profound, if not greater,
implications for international and national security in terms of both
capabilities and vulnerabilities. Nevertheless, many of the potential expanded
capabilities have yet to be realized and many of the new vulnerabilities have
yet to be fully understood. This project aims to illuminate the emerging cyber capabilities from
various viewpoints: users and developers, operational impacts and
vulnerabilities in conflict and crisis management, enhancement and suppression
of democratic development, and future trends: what issues will face society in
the cyber world of 2050?
Reuben W. Hills Conference Room
Jeffery H. Richardson
Jeff Richardson is an affiliate and former visiting scholar at CISAC. He came to CISAC after a 35-year career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At LLNL he held a variety of program management positions, including Division Leaders of Chemistry and later of Proliferation Prevention. He spent two tours in Washington DC, supporting NNSA in Nonproliferation R&D and DoD in the USAF Directorate of Nuclear Operations, Plans and Requirements. He recently completed 4-year assignment working for CRDF as the U.S. Science Advisor for the ISTC program, administered by the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction, State Department. At CISAC he is focused on science diplomacy, using science as a tool for international engagement and promoting regional security.
Jeff earned his BS degree in chemistry from CalTech and his PhD in organic chemistry from Stanford University. His work at LLNL included chemical and materials science research, energy research, materials development for nuclear weapons programs, radiation detection for border security, nuclear materials protection, and proliferation detection, science cooperation for international security, and support for the Chemical Weapons Convention. He has authored over 100 papers. More recent papers include LLNL and WSSX, a contribution to Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian scientists joined forces to avert some of the greatest post-Cold War nuclear dangers, and Shifting from a Nuclear Triad to a Nuclear Dyad, which explored an alternate future strategy for the US nuclear arsenal.
