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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Section 230 Is Essential to the Internet’s Future

The law’s critics are right to question Big Tech’s power, but weakening Section 230 would not address companies’ flaws.

03.31.21 | 1 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Creating an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-L) for the Department of Labor

The Federal Government should annually invest $100 million for 5 years to launch an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Labor (ARPA-L).

03.29.21 | 8 min read
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Global Risk
The U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force: A Post-Cold War Timeline

The Pentagon is currently planning to replace its current arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a brand-new missile force, known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent.

03.24.21 | 1 min read
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FAS
Blog
A New Policy on Setting Intelligence Priorities

Shortly before the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe issued a directive that altered the process for preparing the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, or NIPF, stripping out limitations on signals intelligence collection from the previous policy. The NIPF is perhaps the single most important administrative tool for managing the U.S. […]

03.22.21 | 4 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
British Defense Review Ends Nuclear Reductions Era

[Article updated May 11, 2021] The United Kingdom announced yesterday that it has decided to abandon a previous plan to reduce it nuclear weapons stockpile to 180 by the mid-2020s and instead “move to an overall nuclear weapon stockpile of no more than 260 warheads.” The decision makes Britain the first Western nuclear-armed state to […]

03.17.21 | 8 min read
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Global Risk
day one project
Policy Memo
Averting Environmental Risks in the New Space Age

Space is at risk of developing the equivalent of the ocean’s “drifting island of plastic.” Unless we act now, we may find that, as with climate change, we wish we had acted much sooner.

03.16.21 | 14 min read
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Global Risk
Report
Siloed Thinking: A Closer Look at the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent

The Pentagon’s case for the ICBM replacement program, known as the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) needs to be reevaluated in light of cost escalation and surrounding budgetary pressures.

03.16.21 | 1 min read
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Education & Workforce
day one project
Policy Memo
Expanding the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program to Preserve American Innovation

Sustained investment in the industries of the future is crucial to national security, American healthcare, and a green economy.

03.15.21 | 1 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
FAS Presses for Release of Nuclear Stockpile Data

Updated below For the past three years, the Trump Administration refused to provide an annual tally of the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. nuclear stockpile or the number of weapons that had been dismantled each year, though that had been the practice under the Obama Administration and through 2017. The Federation of American Scientists […]

03.11.21 | 2 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
Aging Electronics May Limit Nuke Reliability

The use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic parts in nuclear weapons systems may reduce the reliability of the US nuclear arsenal over time as the electronics age in ways that are hard to predict, according to a newly disclosed report from the JASON science advisory panel. “Most of the electronic materials and components within a weapon […]

03.11.21 | 3 min read
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Education & Workforce
day one project
Policy Memo
Forging 1,000 Venture Scientists to Transform the Innovation Economy

The Administration should establish the Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) to train graduates to combine research and entrepreneurship.

03.04.21 | 2 min read
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FAS
Blog
Science in the Public Interest: Devising a New Strategy

What actions should the federal government take “to ensure that our nation can continue to harness the full power of science and technology on behalf of the American people”? President Biden posed that question and five more specific ones to his Science Advisor Dr. Eric S. Lander. “My hope is that you, working broadly and transparently […]

03.01.21 | 2 min read
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