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Missile Defense

December 18, 2020

Congress is (finally) paying attention to missile defense costs and failures

By John D. Isaacs and Samuel M. Hickey In the recently completed Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress takes some significant steps toward reining in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and its wayward acquisition strategy. In the bill, Congress levels criticisms at the Pentagon’s handling of missile defense programs, reduces the missile […]

Posted in: Factsheets & Analysis on Pentagon Budget, Missile Defense, Nukes of Hazard blog, Pentagon Budget

December 4, 2020

Conference Outcomes of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act

Note: The final bill, which Congress plans to vote on in the coming days, faces President Trump’s twin veto threats over renaming U.S. military bases that honor Confederate Generals and the failure to repeal social media legal protections.  Topline Funding Nuclear Weapons and Related Programs   Columbia Class Strategic Submarine     House: $4.33 billion, the requested amount Senate: $4.51 billion, an increase of $175 million Conference Outcome: $4.46 billion, an increase of $130 […]

Posted in: Factsheets & Analysis on Nuclear Weapons, Factsheets & Analysis on Nuclear Weapons Spending, Factsheets & Analysis on Pentagon Budget, Factsheets on Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons Spending, Pentagon Budget, Security Spending, United States

July 25, 2019

Select Comparisons Between House and Senate FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Bills

Topline Funding Senate approved House approved Total funding $750.0 billion $733.0 billion Overseas Contingency Operations funding $75.9 billion $69.0 billion  (Note: $738 billion is the new total in the Pelosi-Mnuchin budget agreement)   Nuclear and Related Weapons Programs and Treaties LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR WARHEAD FOR SUBMARINES House: Prohibits funds for the deployment of W76-2 low-yield warhead […]

Posted in: Factsheets & Analysis on Pentagon Budget, Missile Defense, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons Spending, Pentagon Budget, Security Spending, United States

June 27, 2019

Did abandoning the ABM Treaty make America safer?

By Bryce Farabaugh and Deverrick Holmes, Policy Interns This month marks the seventeenth anniversary of the United States withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, a landmark agreement from the Cold War that limited American and Soviet (and subsequently, Russian) ground-based, anti-ballistic missile defense systems. Originally signed May 26, 1972, between American President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary […]

Posted in: Factsheets & Analysis on Russia, Missile Defense, Nukes of Hazard blog, United States

June 25, 2019

Op-ed: Congress is not asking the right questions about missile defense

Policy Intern Deverrick Holmes wrote an op-ed for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about all the reasons why Ground-based Midcourse Defense deserves further review by Congress. The United States is no stranger to colossally bad ideas put forth in the name of security. The invasion of Iraq immediately comes to mind, or that time […]

Posted in: Center in the News, Missile Defense, Press & In the News on Missile Defense, Press Room, United States

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