Snacks are ready, cozy slippers are on and you’re ready to watch A House of Dynamite on Netflix on your couch. Something pops up on your screen that has you wondering: What is that? Is that realistic? What does that mean? A work of fiction, A House of Dynamite depicts how U.S. national security […]
What ‘A House of Dynamite’ Gets Right and Wrong About the Nuclear Launch Process
[CONTAINS SPOILERS!] The film A House of Dynamite is all about what would happen during a nuclear attack on the United States, and the United States’ own nuclear launch process plays a feature role. RIGHT: While many aspects of the nuclear launch process are highly classified, the procedures depicted in A House of Dynamite are […]
Summary: Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 3838) as passed by the House Committee on Armed Services
Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY26 Request FY26 requested levels come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2026 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book Request Numbers in this analysis only include discretionary requests Numbers may not add due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Request (050) […]
Fiscal Year 2026 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book
FY25 enacted levels come from the FY26 Department of Defense Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1) documents Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY25 Enacted Level unless otherwise specified FY26 Request numbers combine Reconciliation and Discretionary Funding requests The inflation rate for calendar year 2024 was […]
Ask PolitiFact: Was Iran ‘weeks away’ from having a nuclear weapon, as Trump said?
Research Analyst Shawn Rostker spoke to PolitiFact about how long it would take Iran to build a nuclear bomb. Shawn Rostker, a research analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said uranium enrichment is one part of the process, “but building a nuclear weapon requires additional steps like warhead design and delivery system integration.” […]
