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Michael Klare

Michael Klare

United States
AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons
Asia/Oceania
Senior Visiting Fellow | Arms Control Association
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mklare@hampshire.edu
www.armscontrol.org/about/Michael_Klare

Michael Klare is a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association, where he focuses on the weaponization of emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and lethal autonomous weapons systems—and how arms control strategies can mitigate their adverse impacts.

He is the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and served for 33 years as the Five Colleges Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, a joint appointment at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  He is the author of several volumes including All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, The Race for What's Left, and Resource Wars.

Featured Publications

AI Plays Major Role in the War on Iran

Arms Control Today | May 6, 2026.
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New Trump Strategy Promotes U.S. Arms Industry

Arms Control Today | March 6, 2026.
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A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises: The Secret War Within the Pentagon

TomDispatch | February 9, 2025.
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Publications

  • AI Plays Major Role in the War on Iran
    Arms Control Today | May 6, 2026.
  • New Trump Strategy Promotes U.S. Arms Industry
    Arms Control Today | March 6, 2026.
  • A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises: The Secret War Within the Pentagon
    TomDispatch | February 9, 2025.
  • UN Moves to Expand Autonomous Weapons Discussions
    Arms Control Today | December 9, 2024.
  • Biden to Continue Arming Israel Despite Insufficient Aid to Gaza
    Arms Control Today | December 9, 2024.
  • Canada and UK Restrict Arms Sales to Israel Over Gaza War
    Arms Control Today | October 11, 2024.
  • Guterres Calls for Autonomous Weapons Controls
    Arms Control Today | October 11, 2024.
  • Diplomatic Debate Over Autonomous Weapons Heats Up
    Arms Control Today | 2024
  • The Pentagon’s Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All
    The Nation | December 6, 2023.
  • Biden’s “Rule-Based International Order
    the Nation | November 7, 2023.
  • Swarms vs. Swarms: How Intelligent — Artificial or Otherwise — Is Any of This?
    TomDispatch | October 15, 2023.
  • Pentagon Plans Mass Autonomous Weapons Deployment
    Arms Control Association | 2023
  • When AI and Robotics Combine: The coming advent of 'killer robots.
    '" The Nation | August 9, 2023.
  • Goodbye to the American Century: China, India, and the Emerging New World Order
    TomDispatch | May 18, 2023.
  • Spurring an Endless Arms Race: The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars
    TomDispatch | April 16, 2023.
  • Dueling Views on AI, Autonomous Weapons
    Arms Control Today | 2023
  • Is a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Imminent?
    TomDispatch | March 14, 2023.
  • Pentagon Seeks to Facilitate Autonomous Weapons Deployment
    Arms Control Today | 2023
  • Pentagon Prepares for Island Combat in the Pacific as US-China Tensions Rise
    Truthout | February 28, 2023.
  • Congress Girds for War With China
    The Nation | February 21, 2023.
  • Assessing the Dangers: Emerging Military Technologies and Nuclear (In)Stability
    Arms Control Association | 2023
  • The Pentagon’s Quest for Academic Intelligence: (AI)
    The Nation | January 30, 2023.
  • The Department of Defense Has Delivered Another Massive Intelligence Failure
    The Nation | January 25, 2023.
  • What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?
    Tom Dispatch | November 27, 2022.
  • Biden and Xi Skirt the Abyss
    The Nation | November 17, 2022.
  • The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point
    The Nation | September 27, 2022.
  • Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Launched a New Era of Military Competition With China
    The Nation | August 10, 2022.
  • Biden’s NATO Summit Divides the World Into Hostile Camps
    The Nation | July 7, 2022.
  • President Biden’s Trip to Asia
    The Nation | May 30, 2022.
  • Stop the Fighting in Ukraine
    The Nation | March 17, 2022.
  • Would a 'Cold' War Be the Best News Around?
    TomDispatch | March 6, 2022.
  • Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington
    The Nation | February 23, 2022.
  • Biden’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Relentless Struggle for Geopolitical Dominance in Asia
    SANE U.S.-China Policy | February 20, 2022.
  • A New “March of Folly
    The Nation | January 25, 2022.
  • Conference Makes No Progress on Robotic Weapons
    Arms Control Today | 2022
  • Containment on Steroids: Pentagon's 2022 Budget Seeks China Encirclement
    Committee for a SANE U.S. China Policy | December 31, 2021.
  • Spice — From the Ancient World to Dune
    Movies & Hoops | December 13, 2021.
  • China, 2049: A Climate Disaster Zone, Not a Military Superpower
    TomDispatch | August 24, 2021.
  • New arms sales send the wrong signal on Taiwan
    Defense News | August 18, 2021.
  • None Dare Call It 'Encirclement
    '" TomDispatch | January 13, 2021.
  • Corruption in the arms trade
    Research handbook on the arms trade | 2020
  • The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy
    The Nation | October 13, 2020.
  • The Pentagon’s AI ‘ghost fleet’ is more than just scary – it’s unwise
    Responsible Statecraft | October 12, 2020.
  • The Pentagon's Next Project: Automated War
    The Nation | August 27, 2020.
  • Congress wants more unnecessary anti-China weapons programs in annual defense bill
    Responsible Statecraft | July 8, 2020.
  • Skynet’ Revisited: The Dangerous Allure of Nuclear Command Automation
    Arms Control Today | 2020
  • Twin Threats: Climate Change Is Speeding Up –And So Is the Nuclear Arms Race
    The Nation | January 27, 2020.