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Nations working to take out nuclear weapons should turn to blockchain to build trust and make the process safer, according to a new political report.
As reported on Monday by King’s College London, research from the university’s Center for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) suggests that using blockchain would help parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty build trust and make nuclear weapons dismantling. more “safe, secure and reliable.”
Entitled “The Trust Machine: Blockchain in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Verification,” the policy report aims to give policymakers a non-technical look at how blockchain technology could comply with nuclear disarmament verification requirements.
Among the specific benefits the technology can offer for dismantling the data management process, the report’s authors list “an immutable, encrypted record of the chain of custody for responsible treaty articles”, allowing third parties to verify the disarmament. without actually seeing the data.
Another is a “cryptographic escrow” for national declarations that allow sensitive data to be released in a phased manner.
The team, led by Dr Lyndon Burford, an associate of CSSS research, also says blockchain could provide a secure data platform for location sensors and environmental monitors. This could enable real-time monitoring at remote sites, “automatically alerting participants of potential treaty violations,” the report suggests.
With nations unwilling to expose sensitive nuclear weapons data, Dr Burford said governments “often don’t trust each other enough to cooperate on such measures.”
The title of the report reflects the possibility that blockchain could be a tool for building that trust by offering an encrypted and tamper-proof way to manage data on the dismantling of newspapers, according to the report.
