"Insisting that China should join U.S.-Russian nuclear talks seems premature and it is still unclear what the United States would trade in return for what,"Hans Kristensen writes in areview of a new US Indo-Pacific Command brief on Chinese military forces.
“Is anyone going to think this is a science-based process rather than a political one?” FAS PresidentAli Nouri tells theBoston Globe about a premature vaccine rollout. “I don’t know how you... convince the American people that it was not a political decision.”
If we want #DiversityinSTEM, we must investigate why past efforts have only produced incremental change. FAS joins 70+ science orgs and House Science Chairwoman Johnson in calling for a NASEM study on the influence of systemic racism in academia.
In the latest episode of Above The Fray, FAS President Ali Nouri‘s video podcast, he and the Coronavirus Project team discuss how the important role of scientists during pandemics and how we can all pitch in to make the world safer.
Last June the Department of Defense denied an application for security clearance for access to classified information because the applicant had “delinquent debts totaling about $24,000.” In May, a defense contractor was denied a security clearance base …
Construction has begun of a new nuclear weapons storage facility at F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Click on image to view full size By Hans M. Kristensen The Air Force has begun construction of a new underground nuclear weapons storage and handling facili …
Click on image to download PDF-version of full briefing Some Missile Numbers Do Not Match Recent DOD China Report By Hans M. Kristensen U.S. Indo-Pacific Command recently gave a briefing about the challenges the command sees in the region. The briefing …
Last January the Trump Administration formally notified Congress under the War Powers Act of a US drone strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. But unlike all known prior War Powers Act notifications, the report on the Soleimani killing w …
By Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda (With table corrected for typos) The Pentagon has just released its long-awaited 2020 version of its annual report on China’s military developments. In this article, we review the elements concerning China’s nuclear …
North Korea’s military “uses tactics based on former Soviet or current Russian doctrine, Chinese developments, lessons learned, and observation of recent military actions,” according to a new US Army manual on the subject. “While North Korea maintains …
Seventy-five years later, we commemorate the nuclear attacks and the unspeakable human suffering they inflicted, which remind us of the uniquely destructive capability of nuclear weapons and the importance of ensuring that they are never used in anger again.
The first ever nuclear detonation––known as the Trinity test––took place in New Mexico on July 16th, 1945. In the decades that followed, nuclear testing contaminated lands, oceans, and people, and triggered a nuclear arms race that continues to this day.
Updated below The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) boasts an amazing record of achievement but its future is in jeopardy, according to a newly disclosed report of the Naval Research Advisory Committee that was suppressed by the Navy. NRL is widely …
Among the lesser known consequences of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago was that it triggered a race between Hollywood movie studios MGM and Paramount to bring the story of the atomic bomb — or at least some commercialized version of …
