Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Lessons Learned and Issues for Congress, updated July 2, 2015
Acquisition Reform in House- and Senate-Passed Versions of the FY2016 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1735), July 2, 2015
Iran’s Foreign Policy, updated June 30, 2015
Iran: Efforts to Achieve a Nuclear Accord, updated July 1, 2015
Puerto Rico’s Current Fiscal Challenges: In Brief, June 30, 2015
Burma’s Parliament Defeats Constitutional Amendments, CRS Insights, June 30, 2015
Ex-Im Bank’s General Statutory Authority Expires, CRS Insights, July 1, 2015
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV): World Health Organization Responses, CRS Insights, July 2, 2015
Job Creation in the Manufacturing Revival, updated July 2, 2015
The Crime Victims Fund: Federal Support for Victims of Crime, updated June 30, 2015
Systemically Important or “Too Big to Fail” Financial Institutions, updated June 30, 2015
EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed Rule to Define “Waters of the United States”, updated June 29, 2015
EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed “Waters of the United States” Rule: Congressional Response and Options, updated June 29, 2015
The Federal Communications Commission: Current Structure and Its Role in the Changing Telecommunications Landscape, updated June 29, 2015
The 2015 National Security Strategy: Authorities, Changes, Issues for Congress, updated July 2, 2015
U.S.-Republic of Korea Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, CRS Insights, June 30, 2015. The text of the proposed “123” agreement between the US and Korea is available here.
The FAS Nuclear Notebook is one of the most widely sourced reference materials worldwide for reliable information about the status of nuclear weapons, and has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1987.. The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by the staff of the Federation of American Scientists’ Nuclear Information Project: Director Hans […]
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A photo in a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) student briefing from 2022 shows four people inspecting what appears to be a damaged B61 nuclear bomb.
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