{
  "id": 18569,
  "url": "https://warontherocks.com/putting-armageddon-on-autopilot-how-artificial-intelligence-could-make-nuclear-threats-more-effective",
  "title": "Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective",
  "summary": "Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons. Arms control agreements painstakingly built over decades have collapsed. Geopolitical competition is intensifying rivalries between nuclear-armed powers. North Korea continues expanding its arsenal and delivery systems. China is on a trajectory to go from roughly 600 warheads today to around 1,500 by 2035. Meanwhile, Russia bears most of the responsibility for the expiration of New START and is developing an array of exotic new nuclear delivery systems",
  "authors": "Joshua Schwartz",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china,russia",
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T07:30:08.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "x-war-on-the-rocks",
  "source_name": "War on the Rocks",
  "source_homepage": "https://warontherocks.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18569",
  "original_url": "https://warontherocks.com/putting-armageddon-on-autopilot-how-artificial-intelligence-could-make-nuclear-threats-more-effective",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}