It’s time to build America’s cyber-nuke. We desperately need a deterrent to stop wars before they start

American nuclear weapons, especially the atomic bomb, brought World War II to an end. After avoiding a hot war with the Soviet Union and strengthening decades of global stability. The decisive superweapons of the next great conflict will be digital and run on supercomputers (specialized chips called “GPUs”), with the power to break codes, paralyze the economy of our enemies, and destroy their weapons from the inside. Just as the US military needs the world’s best planes and ships, the US military needs a state-of-the-art supercomputer to deter future conflicts before they begin. Our adversaries must understand that attacking the United States or our allies in Taiwan will put them in the crosshairs of the world’s most formidable cyber weapon and not prevent us from producing one.

A strategic supercomputer saves lives and ends wars by powering futuristic technologies at scales and speeds never before possible. This means our military leaders can simulate battles before they happen to identify weaknesses and opportunities. Our frontline troops will enjoy an overwhelming informational advantage due to systems that filter data from thousands of satellites, drones and sensors around the globe. Pro-Trump, Pro-America companies like Anduril and Palantir have already achieved multi-billion dollar valuations by building AI-powered systems and software that range from autonomous fighter jets to kamikaze drone swarms.

Because it is this type supercomputer such a powerful deterrent? A country with this capability can outmatch, outperform, overcome, and outlast its adversaries in proportion to the computing power available. AI accelerates the development of new technologies and makes existing technologies run faster and better. A strategic supercomputer can build and execute innovative AI cyberweapons while protecting American leadership in both industry and warfighting.

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In the interest of the franchise, I must note that I am a serial founder whose mission to advance America’s technological dominance led me to build Hydra Host, the American Innovation Foundation and Fabius Labs. Hydra Host provides data centers and AI innovators the GPUs and software they need to maintain America’s lead. While I have a personal interest in America scaling its AI and GPU dominance, I offer the following recommendation on behalf of my country’s global leadership and national security.

Why is this type of supercomputer such a powerful deterrent? A country with this ability can outrun, outrun, outrun its opponents.

America is not the only country to have this idea. America’s Allies in Europe they all started building their own government supercomputers and AI programs. Most worryingly, China has targeted a massive 50%+ year-over-year increase in computing power to catch up with the US. China obscures details of its most advanced supercomputers, and its secretive investments coincide with President Xi Jinping’s repeated threats to invade Taiwan, the West’s preeminent chip-making partner and a stepping stone for the rest of the Pacific.

Allowing China to recover would not only be a disaster for Taiwan. It would be a disaster for the United States and the free world that our military and nuclear capabilities have managed since WWII. America’s superweapons have stopped global communist tyranny once, and we must prepare for them to do it again.

America elected President Trump to defend America while saving taxpayers money. Then we will discuss why it is not only a good defense policy, but one of the best investments we can make in general.

Unlike most military hardware, supercomputers can be productively employed in peacetime, supporting critical government, industrial and scientific functions. We spend billions upgrading our military weaponry every year, and unlike traditional military weaponry, GPUs offer immediate and enormous utility for critical civilian applications.

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We are not afraid of obsolescence. The advantages of scale last even as new technologies hit the market, meaning we can do more with a last-generation supercomputer than many last-generation weapons against a peer or near the battlefield. More GPU computing power gives superior results, regardless of hardware generation – and greatly negates any benefits of not scaling. Will we stop improving and enhancing our missiles if missile innovation takes off? Free markets generate an unstoppable wave of innovation for us to catch or spend the next century chasing.

Building and maintaining a national supercomputer brings critical manufacturing capabilities and thousands of high-paying jobs home. A national supercomputer can subsidize the construction of domestic chip manufacturing facilities anticipated market commitments: the promise to buy a product once successfully developed. Such a program should have early market commitments on chips manufactured in the country that meet the needs of US military objectives.

U Covid-19 pandemic it showed us that it is better to buy chips during a supply boom than at gouged prices when something breaks. If a conflict arises in the Pacific, the global semiconductor supply chain will likely collapse, and we will need to buy the chips anyway.

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The US defense budget is about $800 billion, and only a small portion is needed to build a dominant national security capability and American industrial Leviathan. This critical investment will cost less than 5% of the total military aid given to Ukraine and will be roughly equivalent to the cost of 80 F-35 fighters, of which we already have about 630 and plan to procure about 1,800 more.

Investing in a dedicated national defense supercomputer is an investment in American reindustrialization and jobs, American security, and American resilience—and we can’t afford to do it.

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Of course, possessing the world’s largest supercomputer does not guarantee victory or nuclear-level deterrence by itself. Nuclear weapons and other next-generation platforms extend, but do not replace, ours the full range of complementary military capabilities and doctrine.

The US military must be the most innovative and agile defense force in the world. Building a strategic supercomputer is both sensible defense policy and crucial industrial policy.

In the same way, AI is transforming and extendingbut it does not replace the way human decision-makers conduct war. If we build our supercluster properly and with appropriate urgency, there will be a response, and human strategists will need to manage the arms race that has accelerated. Achieving nuclear deterrence requires leveraging similarly powerful software and data, models, doctrine, diplomatic resources, and military infrastructure.

Our government must possess the ability and audacity to advance all of the above to build a comprehensive AI defense complex before a global adversary catches up. We have to use our lead if we want to keep it.

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The US military must be the most innovative and agile defense force in the world. Building a strategic supercomputer is both a sensible defense policy and a crucial industrial policy aligned with existing national semiconductor goals.

The new Trump administration, with the Department of Defense and Congress, must work together to develop and fortify this new pillar of our economy, building our resilience against supply disruptions, bringing critical manufacturing closer to home, solidifying the United States as and the leading authority on AI and GPU, and grant the American people a key. leverage to shape the next era of this foundational technology.