<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Topline President’s Request House Approved Senate Approved Conference Report Department of Defense base budget $617.1 billion $616.7 billion $617.6 billion $616.9 billion Atomic Energy Defense Programs $21.6 billion $22.1 billion $21.6 billion […]
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: The Foundation For Any Efforts to Reduce Nuclear Threats
As the Cold War threatened to heat up beyond control, many people were worried that dozens of countries might go nuclear. Fortunately, that didn’t come to pass, thanks in large part to the world’s most important nuclear treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — or NPT — which turns 50 this year. The NPT is the […]
Differences Between House and Senate FY 2019 NDAA on Major Nuclear Provisions
View/download as PDF Topline President’s Request House Approved Senate Approved Department of Defense base budget $617.1 billion $616.7 billion $617.6 billion Atomic Energy Defense Programs $21.6 billion $22.1 billion $21.6 billion Overseas Contingency Operations $69 billion $69 billion $68.5 billion Other Spending $8.3 billion $9.2 billion $8.2 billion Total $716.0 billion $717.0 billion $715.9 […]
Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Spending Briefing Book
The Fiscal Year 2019 Budget in Context Introduction President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget requests $617.1 billion for the Defense Department’s annual “base” discretionary budget, which is more than $90 billion higher than FY 18 enacted levels. This amount does not include certain other security spending, including funding for nuclear weapons-related work in […]
Trump’s New Nukes
The Trump Administration has just released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a document that calls for new nuclear capabilities and shatters a decades-old bipartisan consensus that reduced the role of nuclear weapons in American national security strategy. We dive into the NPR with nuclear experts Dr. Adam Mount, Anthony Wier, and Alexandra Bell.
