Will The Right Nuclear Policy Please Stand Up! March 29, 2006
Will the New Triad of nuclear and non-nuclear capabilities reduce or increase the role of U.S. nuclear weapons? To get an answer to that question I went to a…
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Senate To Hold Long-Overdue Hearing on New Global Strike Mission March 27, 2006
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 29th, on the Pentagon’s new offensive Global Strike mission. The Committee has asked the following officials to…
Read moreProposed Legislation Would Effectively Exempt Indian Nuclear Deal from Congressional Review. March 21, 2006
President Bush has submitted an amazing piece of legislation to Congress that essentially strips Congress of its authority to evaluate and limit nuclear exports to India and asks Congress to…
Read morePetition Against New National Security Strategy. March 21, 2006
A few months ago, physicist Jorge Hirsch [jhirsch@ucsd.edu] of the University of California, San Diego, and others, organized a petition signed by an impressive array of notable scientists. The petition…
Read moreReport Shows Prominence of Nuclear Weapons in Global Strike Mission March 15, 2006
Nuclear weapons are surprisingly prominent in the Pentagon’s new offensive Global Strike mission, according to the new FAS report Global Strike: A Chronology of the Pentagon’s New Offensive Strike…
Read moreSmall Arms/Light Weapons Destruction Budget March 9, 2006
The FY07 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations is now available on the State Department’s website. The CBJ contains a detailed breakdown of the President’s budget request for foreign…
Read moreWhere do soldiers get their news? February 28, 2006
A new Zogby poll came out today. What is getting coverage in a New York Times article is that 72% of U.S. soldiers in Iraq believe we should…
Read moreFAS releases clearinghouse for biosecurity information February 27, 2006
FAS has just released our internet resource for biosecurity policy, bioterrorism information, and biodefense research. The site includes an interactive map that provides the locations of both operational and…
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