It seems all too possible lately that, after a few taps of the thumbs on Twitter, existing nuclear tensions could escalate to nuclear war. It’s a worry shared, but not well understood, by many nuclear weapons experts.

So how might a nuclear crisis play out in today’s information ecosystem? We posed that question to a roundtable of nuclear weapons experts, political psychologists, and digital media experts at the Stanley Foundation’s 58th annual Strategy for Peace Conference in October. We titled it, Three Tweets to Midnight: Nuclear Crisis Stability and the Information Ecosystem, evoking the famous Doomsday Clock that conveys how closely we are to destroying civilization with our own technologies.

As researchers and media funders grapple with how to combat disinformation and misinformation while trust in mainstream media wanes, widespread use of social media is transforming the global information ecosystem in ways that could have serious international security implications.

Read the full article about the nuclear risk in the current media landscape by Devon Terrill at Media Impact Funders.