Carl Robichaud

Well, for example, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

is working on this issue of inadvertent nuclear escalation and looking at the ways that technological entanglement of conventional and nuclear systems could lead to the inadvertent use of nuclear weapons.

You have a group called the Council on Strategic Risks, which is looking at some of the most dangerous nuclear systems that are in development,

For example, the sea-launched cruise missile, which the US administration did a review of, decided it didn't need, but Congress then put the money back in for it.

And this weapon is escalatory because it has target and payload ambiguity.

So when it's launched, you don't know exactly where it's going, and you don't know whether it carries a nuclear or a conventional warhead.

So these are the types of interventions that we think are really important at the moment.

We need broadly a civil society effort to elevate this issue and return it to a position of concern within society.

And I think there are just so many ways to contribute to nuclear risk reduction.

And one of them is financially, if you're in a position to do that.

But I think this is an issue for everyone.

And I think that we should all add nuclear weapons to our portfolio of concern.

And I know that's a big ask because there are just so many things to worry about these days, but we're not going to get better policies unless people remember the threat that these weapons pose and support political space for the US, if you're in the US, to negotiate with Russia and China to reduce these shared risks.

And if you're not in a position to give financially, you still have a political voice and you can talk about these issues with your friends and amplify helpful messages on social media.

And if you are in a position to give financial support, there are so many good, dedicated people who have spent their lives preparing to try to contribute.

And they're struggling right now because the space has contracted.

And a little bit of money goes a really long way here.

And our job at Longview Philanthropy is to try to find the best, highest impact projects

and then to put that money to use.

So we have a great team, and we can go out and investigate and find groups that we think are doing work that is the most effective, and then we can network them together and help them be more effective than they would be operating in isolation.