Nancy Snow is strategic communications adviser to the International Security Industry Council of Japan, which works with foreign defense companies seeking local partners, and a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Defence Strategic Communications. She is the co-author of the upcoming eighth edition of the book "Propaganda & Persuasion." The views expressed here are solely personal.

In January, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was moved forward 10 seconds.