Michael Klare
Senior Visiting Fellow, Arms Control Association (website)
twitter: @mklare1
email: mklare [at] hampshire [dot] edu

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arms sales | killer robots | drones | Asia

Michael Klare is a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association, where he focuses on the weaponization of emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and lethal autonomous weapons systems—and how arms control strategies can mitigate their adverse impacts.

He is the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and served for 33 years as the Five Colleges Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, a joint appointment at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  He is the author of several volumes including All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, The Race for What's Left, and Resource Wars.

Recent publications:

• "Dueling Views on AI, Autonomous Weapons," Arms Control Today, April 2023.
  
• ​"Is a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Imminent?," TomDispatch, March 14, 2023.
• "Pentagon Seeks to Facilitate Autonomous Weapons Deployment," Arms Control Today, March 2023.
• ​"Pentagon Prepares for Island Combat in the Pacific as US-China Tensions Rise," Truthout, February 28, 2023.
• ​"Congress Girds for War With China," The Nation, February 21, 2023.
• "Assessing the Dangers: Emerging Military Technologies and Nuclear (In)Stability," Arms Control Association, February 2023.
• "The Pentagon’s Quest for Academic Intelligence: (AI)," The Nation, January 30, 2023.
• "The Department of Defense Has Delivered Another Massive Intelligence Failure," The Nation, January 25, 2023.
• "What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?," Tom Dispatch, November 27, 2022. 
• ​"Biden and Xi Skirt the Abyss," The Nation, November 17, 2022.
• “The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point," The Nation, September 27, 2022.
• ​“Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Launched a New Era of Military Competition With China,” The Nation, August 10, 2022.
• "Biden’s NATO Summit Divides the World Into Hostile Camps," The Nation, July 7, 2022.
• "President Biden’s Trip to Asia," The Nation, May 30, 2022.
• "Stop the Fighting in Ukraine," The Nation, March 17, 2022.
• "Would a 'Cold' War Be the Best News Around?" TomDispatch, March 6, 2022.  
• "Biden’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Relentless Struggle for Geopolitical Dominance in Asia," SANE U.S.-China Policy, February 20, 2022.
• "Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington," The Nation, February 23, 2022.
• "A New “March of Folly” in Europe: Can It Be Averted?," The Nation, January 25, 2022.
• "None Dare Call It 'Encirclement,'" TomDispatch, January 13, 2021.
• "Conference Makes No Progress on Robotic Weapons," Arms Control Today, January/February 2022. 
• "Containment on Steroids: Pentagon's 2022 Budget Seeks China Encirclement," Committee for a SANE U.S. China Policy, December 31, 2021. 
• "Spice — From the Ancient World to Dune," Music, Movies & Hoops, December 13, 2021."
• China, 2049: A Climate Disaster Zone, Not a Military Superpower," TomDispatch, August 24, 2021.
• "New arms sales send the wrong signal on Taiwan," Defense News, August 18, 2021.*
• "Emerging technologies and the arms trade" in Research Handbook on the Arms Trade, edited by Andrew T.H. Tan, December 2020.*
• "The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy," The Nation, October 13, 2020.
• "The Pentagon’s AI ‘ghost fleet’ is more than just scary – it’s unwise," Responsible Statecraft, October 12, 2020.
• "The Pentagon's Next Project: Automated War," The Nation, August 27, 2020.
• “Congress wants more unnecessary anti-China weapons programs in annual defense bill,” Responsible Statecraft, July 8, 2020.​
• “‘Skynet’ Revisited: The Dangerous Allure of Nuclear Command Automation,” Arms Control Today, April 2020.​
• “Twin Threats: Climate Change Is Speeding Up –And So Is the Nuclear Arms Race,” The Nation, January 27, 2020.

​* indicates additional authors