List of figuresAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: opening the AI Pandora’s boxPart I: Destabilizing the AI renaissance1 Military AI primer2 AI in the second nuclear agePart II: Military AI superpowers3 New challenges to military-techno Pax Americana4 US–China crisis stability under the AI nuclear shadowPart III: Nuclear instability redux?5 Hunting for nuclear weapons in the digital age6 The fast and the furious: drone swarming and hypersonic weapons7 The AI-cyber security nexus8 Delegating strategic decisions to intelligent machinesConclusion: managing an AI futureIndex