![]() So, arguably, it has a double importance. If you believe as we do that great power competition is the single greatest driver of anthropogenic existential risk, then nuclear risk reduction is not only desirable in itself but is also the first step towards eliminating a massive chunk of wider existential risk. The openings for traction on nuclear are clear. Washington professes interest in strategic stability. Beijing and Moscow have interests in constraining and mirroring the United States. But great power security establishments ‘speak’ nuclear, have come to know they cannot win nuclear arms races or sustain covert nuclear programmes and are more confident about calculating their interests and then cutting deals on nuclear risk reduction than on AI or even bio. Climate risks aren’t yet deeply integrated enough into great power security establishments to provide the diplomatic bridge to military risk reduction. On the contrary, it is surely more plausible that nuclear risk reduction is the key that could unlock international progress on the control of AI applications and bio risks. But in the present dire state of great power relations is it really more likely that great powers will regulate their AI race more easily than their nuclear one, or add a verification component to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention more easily than find a way forward after the US-Russia nuclear New START treaty expires in February 2026? This is not to say that getting traction on nuclear risk reduction is easy nor that AI or bio risk reduction is impossible. Moreover, such agreement would change the weather on nuclear risk and make it far easier for other nuclear weapons states and the international community to follow suit. Unlike climate or environmental negotiations, which generally have to involve the entire international community, major nuclear risk reduction could be achieved by agreement between just three capitals - Beijing, Moscow and Washington. Verification of existential risk reduction agreements - essential for sustaining reduced risk internationally - seems likely to be less intrusive and thus far easier to negotiate for nuclear than for AI or bio. Unlike AI, they have already negotiated many agreements and have an international framework. The major nuclear powers have a well-established sense of the risk and know roughly how to do nuclear crisis management and risk reduction, unlike AI. Getting traction on existential and catastrophic nuclear risk looks much easier than climate, AI or bio risks. This first part asks whether people outside of government can achieve traction in reducing global nuclear risk, before we address neglect and some ideas to achieve impact. This three-part post draws on a keynote speech delivered by the European Leadership Network’s Director, Sir Adam Thomson, to EA Global in London last month alongside reactions to our earlier post. 3, 2023, for consoles, excluding the family-friendly Nintendo Switch, and PC, and if it’s anything like the Dead Island 2 preview version we played earlier in 2022, it’ll be worth the wait.Part 1: Is traction on nuclear risk possible? This emphasis on detail is part of the team’s broader goal to make Dead Island 2 as realistic as possible, including a unique visual system that shows how much damage your zombie targets have suffered just by looking at them – no health bars required.ĭead Island 2 launches Feb. Duckett also said that, aside from guns, axes, and the like, players will have access to a wide variety of tools they can use, which, presumably, won’t break, or at least not as frequently. Players can switch between eight weapons at a given time and keep another eight in reserve. “So players can look at their weapon and think ‘hm, that’s looking a bit crude’ and know they’ll need to switch it out.” “You can quite easily turn off the HUD and be able to see the weapon degrade in front of you, in various stages,” art director Adam Olson told VG 24/7. Unlike some games, such as Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dead Island 2 makes it plain when a weapon is about to break.
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