MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION is a documentary film that addresses one of the most critical risks in human history and its delicate balance of world power: Nuclear Warfare and Decision-Making.
Moran Cerf helps audiences see our world from a new perspective, with the hope of harnessing the advances in human thinking. A future where humans and machines merge their skills to solve the most difficult problem in the world:
How to think and live.
FEATURED EXPERTS
INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Jeffrey Lewis
Pavel Podvig
Tong Zhao
Benoit Pelopidas
Avner Cohen
Isaac Ben-Israel
Bruce Bennett
Robert Forsyth
Olamide Samuel
Sylvia Mishra
Professor / Middlebury Institute
Research Fellow / United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Senior Fellow / Nuclear Policy, Carnegie Endowment for Peace
Founder / Nuclear Knowledges — Stanford University
Historian / Middlebury Institute
General / Israeli Defense Forces — Member of Parliament / Israel Knesset
Senior Analyst / Rand Corporation
Nuclear Submarine Commander / British Royal Navy
Professor / SOAS University of London
Nuclear Researcher / King's College London
United States
Russia
China
France
Israel
Israel
North Korea
United Kingdom
Africa
India - Pakistan
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
David Ferrucci
Doug Lenat
Peter Hancock
Zach Kallenborn
Graham Taylor
Michael Horowitz
Yejin Choi
Iyad Rahwan
Rao Kambhampati
Founder / IBM Watson
Founder / Cyc — Stanford University
Professor of Engineering / University of Central Florida
Policy Fellow / Schar School of Policy & Government
Professor of Engineering / Vector Institute
Director / Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Researcher / Allen Institute for AI
Director / Max Planck Institute for Human Development
President / Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI)
Machine Decisions, Elemental Cognition
Symbolic AI
Cognitive Design, Man-Machine Teams
WMDs, Drone Swarms, AI terrorism
Machine Learning, Explainable AI
AI Military Innovation
Commonsense AI, Project Mosaic
Machine and AI Ethics
Human-Aware AI
GOVERNMENT / MILITARY
Michael Rogers
Leon Panetta
Jim Boensch
Ed Kaplan
Jurgen Heitmann
Anagha Iyengar
John Ferrari
Bobby Inman
Robert Green
Leonor Tomero
Douglas Shaw
Deborah Rosenblum
Directory / NSA — Admiral / U.S. Navy
Secretary of Defense — Directory, CIA — Chief of Staff / Obama
U.S. Nuclear Missile Launcher
Dean / U.s. Army War College
U.S. Navy Seal
Program Manager / U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
Major General / U.S. Army — American Enterprise Foundation
Director / CIA — Director / NSA — Admiral / U.S. Navy
Nuclear Bombardier-Navigator / British Royal Navy
Deputy Assistan Secreatry of Defense / Nuclear & Missile Defense
U.S. Department of Energy — U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Biological Defense
U.S. Nuclear Strategy, Decision-Making
U.S. Nuclear Strategy, Decision-Making
Minutemen "Missileer"
U.S. Nuclear History & Strategy
Group Decision-Making, Leadership
Atomic Energy Safeguards
Cyber-security, U.S. Nuclear Strategy
U.S. Nuclear Strategy, Decision-Making
Nuclear Combat
U.S. Nuclear Planning & Budgeting
Deterrence Theory
U.S. Nuclear Strategy, Decision-Making
SPECIALTY
Sandra Matz
Joan Rohlfing
Sharon Weiner
Frank von Hippel
James Acton
Dan Ariely
Emma Belcher
Alex Wellerstein
Page Stoutland
Lynn Eden
Pablos Holman
Mike Lippitz
Martie Hellman
Paul Slovic
Professor of Computational Social Science / Columbia University
President / Nuclear Threat Initiative
Professor, School of International Service / American University
Professor of Theoretical Physics / Princeton University
Co-Director / Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment
Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics / Duke University
President / Project Plougshares
Nuclear Weapons Historian / Stevens Institute of Technology
Cyber Consultant / Nuclear Threat Initiative
Senior Research Scholar Emeritus / Stanford University
Hacker — Inventor — Futurist
Strategic Tech. Planning / Department of Defense
Professor of Cryptology / Stanford — Turing award winner
Professor of Psychology / University of Oregon
Big Data and Psychology
Nuclear Weapons Security & Reduction
Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation
Nuclear Physics
Escalation Risks, Arms Control
High-Risk Decision-Making, Psychology
Nuclear Non-Proliferation & Reduction
Nuclear Launch Protocol History
Nuclear Weapons Cyber-security
International Security, Arms Control
Unconventional Nuclear Futures
DoD procurement, Soviet deterrence
Nuclear Decision-Making Protocols
Risky Decision-Making
WITH COMMENTARY FROM...
Daniel Kahneman Nobel Laureate / Economics — Professor / Princeton University
Esther Perel Relationship Therapist
Tim Urban Writer / Wait But Why
Laurie Segall Journalist and CNN Technology Editor-at-Large
Rahzel Beatboxer — Member of the "Roots"
Nouriel Roubini Professor / New York University
Eric Schurenberg Editor-in-Chief / Inc. & Fast Company
Roy Ramon Former Israeli Submarine Commander
Michael Platt Professor of Neuroscience and Decision-Making / Wharton
Norman Palmer Former Director / Department of Homeland Security
Paul Costa Head of Engineering / Apple
Patty Mills NBA Player / Brooklyn Nets
Erika Lawler Olympian Medalist
Rob Wolcott Professor of Entrepreneurship / University of Chicago
Barbara Tversky Professor of Sociology / Stanford University
Guy Hoffman Professor of Robotic / Cornell University
Joshua Elliott AI Project Manager / DARPA
Diana Tamir Professor of Psychology / Stanford University
Julia Lane AI Task Force / Biden Administration
Seth Goldstein Professor of Computer Science / Carnegie Mellon University
Andy Walshe Founder / Liminal Collective
Yael Hanein Professor of Electrical Engineering / Tel-Aviv University
Elay de-Beer E-Gaming Expert, CEO / Buff
JB Miller Hollywood Executive
Susanna Pollack President / Game for Change
Kyle Dropp Founder / "Morning Consult"
THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE IS LIKE TWO SWORN ENEMIES STANDING WAIST DEEP IN GASOLINE...
ARGUING WHO HAS MORE MATCHES.
TEAM
Washington
Cinematography
Camera Asst
Sound
MUA
Production Assistant
South
Cinematography
Camera Asst
North
Cinematography
Sound
Gaffer
New
Producer
Cinematography
Sound
Still
Finance
Communications
D.C.
Joseph Carabeo
Jeremy Ponafala
Ted Hogeman
Jessica Campbell
Quinton Delgadillo
Dakota
Derek Baune
Bill Van der Hagen
Carolina
Cody Pyper
Mike Stipe
Ethan Ramirez
York
Yarin Cerf
Tal Atzmon
Jeff Gauner
Nir Ariely
Heather Roper
Paris Kissel
SPECIAL THANKS
Leetha Filderman
Sharon Weiner
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Eaton Hotel, D.C.
Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
MATERIAL
Trailer:
Media about the project:
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11.25.2023, Prof. Cerf's interview at UK's Talk TV with Trisha Goddard
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11.23.2023, Times article about the project: "Who should really be in control of pressing the nuclear button?"
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08.21.2023, New York Times article about the project: "Nuclear war could end the world. But what if it's all in our heads?"
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01.21.2023, Financial Times article about the project: "300 nuclear missiles are heading your way. You must respond. What now?"
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04.08.2022, Prof. Cerf interview on "The Brain and the Bomb" at the "The New European"
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12.07.2022, Prof. Cerf on "Decision Making for Leaders" at "The Innovator"
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21.05.2022, Prof. Cerf speaks about "Things that a human brain has a hard time thinking about at DLD
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30.11.2020, Prof. Cerf's interview at the Ploughshares Fund Podcast "Press the Button" on "The Bomb and Your Brain"
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12.12.2018, Prof. Moran Cerf speaks about "How the brain processes risk" at NTI
CONTACT
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