Editors' Picks: How AI could harm nuclear deterrence; and the failures of American maternity care

If you have problems viewing this email, [view it in a browser.]( [Foreign Policy]( EDITORS' PICKS 04/24/2018 Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s round-up of the day’s best articles. Today, we look at why the British royal baby is lucky he wasn’t born in the United States, how artificial intelligence could destabilize nuclear deterrence, and why Mike Pompeo has to clean up after Rex Tillerson. 1 [Royal Pain:]( Everyone in the West, royalty or not, gets better maternal health care than parents in the United States, FP's Laurie Garrett writes. [Read more]( 2 [Judgement Day:]( A new Rand Corp. report finds artificial intelligence could increase the risk of nuclear war, FP's Elias Groll reports. [Read more]( 3 [Time for Repairs:]( Tillerson’s tenure as secretary of state showed how quickly U.S. diplomatic strengths could erode. Pompeo has the ability to test how quickly they can be rebuilt, Elephants in the Room's Richard Fontaine and Jamie Fly write. [Read more]( 4 [Kaputt:]( German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s approach to diplomatic relations with the Trump administration has been typical of German foreign policy: moralistic, hypocritical – and completely ineffective, James Kirchick writes. [Read more]( 5 [Much ado about nichego:]( Not every post-Soviet revolution is about the geopolitics of Russia, Thomas de Waal writes. [Read more]( This email was sent to [{EMAIL}]( by fp@foreignpolicy.com. [UPDATE PROFILE]( [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [ADVERTISE](mailto:advertise@foreignpolicy.com) [GROUP SALES AND LICENSING](mailto:licensing@foreignpolicy.com) Foreign Policy Magazine is published by the FP Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company. All contents ©2018 The Slate Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 11 DUPONT CIRCLE NW, SUITE 600, WASHINGTON DC 20036