The Federation of American Scientists is proud to announce Ali Nouri’s appointment to serve in the Biden-Harris administration as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) in the Office of Congressional and…
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The declassification process has been overwhelmed by the flood of classified records awaiting review, said Sen. Ron Wyden last week. “I intend to push the Director of National Intelligence to…
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Amid the whirlwind of White House activity following inauguration last week, President Biden issued his first presidential directive on national security to designate pandemic response as…
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By Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force today, 90 days after the deposit…
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The US Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) has published a new version of its widely referenced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat report.
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The primary deterrence challenge facing the United States today is preventing aggression and escalation in limited conventional conflicts with a nuclear-armed adversary. It is a difficult conceptual and practical challenge for both conventional and nuclear strategy—but existing Pentagon strategy development processes are not equipped to integrate these tools to meet the challenge.
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By Hans M. Kristensen The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) new Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) doubles the number of new nuclear warhead programs compared…
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In a bureaucratic bombshell, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has asked the White House to rescind a ten-year-old executive order that required a uniform policy for marking…
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The procedural steps leading up to inauguration of the next President on January 20, 2021 are described in a recent Congressional Research Service publication. See…
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Through link-shortening services such as bit.ly, a third-party has disseminated vaccine-related malware across Latin America.
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