FY24 enacted levels come from the FY24 Energy and Water Conference Joint Explanatory Statement and the FY24 Defense Conference Joint Explanatory Statement Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY24 Enacted Level unless otherwise specified The inflation rate for calendar year 2023 was 3.4% Numbers may not add up due to rounding […]
Op-Ed: Risk reduction can help prevent nuclear crises. Here’s how.
Research Analyst Shawn Rostker wrote an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on strengthening risk reduction in nuclear weapons states. On February 4, 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last legally binding arms control agreement on strategic nuclear warheads, will expire, ushering in a theoretically unconstrained nuclear world. Treaty-based […]
Fact Sheet: The U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise/Nuclear Weapons Complex
The U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise, formerly known as the nuclear weapons complex, encompasses nine government-owned, contractor-operated sites across seven states. Additionally, it includes a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor facility dedicated to tritium production. Across these nine sites, the facilities comprise three laboratories, five plants for component fabrication and materials production, an assembly and […]
Keep Calm and Orbit On
By Shawn Rostker News of a threatening new adversarial space weapon isn’t something you hear about often, but we heard quite a bit on this front last week. Last Wednesday, Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, made an alarming and discomforting disclosure when he made cryptic remarks about an imminent national […]
Trump has long promised a ‘beautiful’ wall. Now he’s pledging ‘the greatest dome ever.’
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with NBC News about missile defense and the feasibility of an “Iron Dome” defense system in the United States. “We’re seeing a lot of positive news on missile defense. It’s doing really good work on protecting civilians in Ukraine and Israel now,” said John Erath, a former National Security Council official who […]
