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Phil Tetlock is part of the study, from the Forecasting Research Institute. Obviously this is very importnt. From Tetlock’s email to me:
“In brief, this study is the largest systematic survey of subject matter experts on the risk posed by nuclear weapons. Through a combination of expert interviews and surveys, 110 domain experts and 41 experienced forecasters predicted the likelihood of nuclear conflict, explained the mechanisms underlying their predictions, and forecasted the impact of specific tractable policies on the likelihood of nuclear catastrophe.
Key findings include:
We asked experts about the probability of a nuclear catastrophe (defined as an event where nuclear weapons cause the death of at least 10 million people) by 2045, the centenary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Experts assigned a median 4.5% probability of a nuclear catastrophe by 2045, while experienced forecasters put the probability at 1%.
a. Respondents thought that a nuclear conflict between Russia and NATO/USA was the adversarial domain most likely to be the cause of a nuclear catastrophe of this scale, however risk was dispersed relatively evenly among the other adversarial domains we asked about: China/USA, North Korea/South Korea, India/Pakistan, and Israel/Iran.
We asked participants about their beliefs on the likely effectiveness of several policy options aimed at reducing the risk of a nuclear catastrophe. Two policies emerged as clear favorites for most participants: a crisis communications network and nuclear-armed states implementing failsafe reviews. The median expert thought that a crisis communications network would reduce the risk of a nuclear catastrophe by 25%, and failsafe reviews would reduce it by 20%.”
You will find the report here.
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