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 […]
Hypersonic weapons race
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with Aerospace America about hypersonic weapons. “From what I know, we’re not falling behind at all,” says Philip Coyle, who was in charge of national security and international affairs in the Obama White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2010 and 2011, and was an assistant secretary […]
Op-ed: American students aren’t taught nuclear weapons policy in school. Here’s how to fix that problem.
Programs Assistant Erin Connolly co-wrote an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist with former Scoville Fellow Kate Hewitt about their mission to educate high school students about nuclear weapons policy. “How many countries have nuclear weapons?” we asked. Students shouted out answers: one, seven, 34, all of the countries in the world. “Which […]
Revealed: Pentagon Push to Hack Nuke Missiles Before They Launch
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke to the DailyBeast about a Pentagon plan to hack other countries’ missiles. Former State Department nonproliferation official Alexandra Bell called the Pentagon plan an “exercise to legally justify a potential attack on a North Korean missile on the launchpad.” “This looks to me like a very elaborate legal justification […]
Op-ed: Mushroom Clouds Beneath the Surface: The Dangers of a Return to Nuclear Testing
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle and Policy Analyst James McKeon wrote an op-ed on the potential return to nuclear testing for War on the Rocks. Year after year, the heads of U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories have assessed that the U.S. stockpile is reliable, and that resuming explosive nuclear testing is unnecessary. In fact, the Stockpile […]
