Several reports of the Congressional Research Service on nuclear weapons policy have recently been updated, including the following:
“Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,” updated January 23, 2006.
“North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program,” updated January 17, 2006.
“Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons,” updated January 13, 2006.
“Nuclear Arms Control: The U.S.-Russian Agenda,” updated January 3, 2006.
This rule gives agencies significantly more authority over certain career policy roles. Whether that authority improves accountability or creates new risks depends almost entirely on how agencies interrupt and apply it.
Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while demonstrating that improved trust and participation are essential to future progress.
Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.
FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic needs.