CSER Nuclear Risk Advisory

Summary

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge University conducts research on nuclear risks as part of its broader existential risk mitigation mission. This page outlines CSER's advisory and research work examining how nuclear weapons, nuclear accidents, and related escalation dynamics pose catastrophic and existential threats to humanity.

Key Points

• •CSER treats nuclear risks as a core existential risk concern alongside AI, pandemics, and other global catastrophic threats
• •Research focuses on reducing nuclear war probability, limiting escalation pathways, and improving international governance frameworks
• •The programme examines interactions between emerging technologies (including AI) and nuclear command, control, and decision-making
• •Advisory work informs policy recommendations for governments and international bodies on nuclear risk reduction
• •Situates nuclear risk within a broader civilizational resilience and long-term future research agenda