ARO Tayyaba Khurshid attended a webinar on Improving Nuclear Hotlines organized bu The Institute for Security and Technology (IST).

1 .The webinar highlighted the need of playing an active role in reducing nuclear dangers and minimizing the role of nuclear weapons in military strategies and inventories.

2 .It advocated for the importance of nuclear-armed states to effectively communicate with each other in a safe, secure, and reliable manner.

3 .The webinar addressed  answer to the question: when or at what point in time, before or during a crisis, would states want to use a multilateral or bilateral crisis communications mechanism?

4. It emphasized the need for multilateral crisis communications and to assess the status of crisis communications in nuclear-armed states.

5. Dr. Manpreet Sethi, Dr. Rabia Akhtar, Dmitry Stefanovich, and Daniil Zhukov were esteemed speakers for Webinar  moderated by IST’s Deputy Director of Nuclear Policy Sylvia Mishra, with an introduction by Technology Policy Analyst Christian Steins.