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The Union of Concerned Scientists announced the appointment of Dr. Tara Drozdenko as director of its Global Security Program.

To get some insight into which direction the Biden administration might take on its Nuclear Posture Review, I contacted Eryn MacDonald, an analyst with the UCS Global Security Program.

A letter signed by nearly 700 scientists and engineers calls on President Biden to reduce the risk of nuclear war by limiting the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security policy.

Published May 12, 2021 Today, a group of scientists and Catholic leaders released a statement calling on President Biden to reduce the threat that nuclear weapons pose to the world and work with other nations toward their abolishment. The statement, signed by fourteen Catholic leaders and top scientists, urged the Biden administration to revise dated U.S. nuclear policies, reduce U.S. spending on nuclear weapons, and engage in diplomacy with Russia and other countries, including at th...

Billions Spent on Hypersonic Development is Driving a Costly Arms Race Published May 5, 2021 A new technical analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that hypersonic weapons offer few meaningful advantages over existing missiles in terms of speed, maneuverability, accuracy, stealth, or the evasion of missile defenses. It recommends that the United States slow its development and acquisition of these weapons to better align funding with their limited tactical and stra...

Statement by Stephen Young, Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists Published Apr 15, 2021 WASHINGTON (April 15, 2021)—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) today reintroduced their No First Use Act that would prohibit any U.S. president from launching nuclear weapons in a first strike. Adopting a "no first use" (NFU) policy that commits the United States to never being the first nation to use nuclear weapons will strengthen U.S. securi...

UW Space Dialogue with Laura Grego April 8 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Free Laura Grego is a senior scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She focuses her analysis and advocacy on the technology and security dimensions of ballistic missile defense and of outer space security. The Space Policy and Research Center presents the UW Space Dialogues to bring together experts across the university and beyond to foster collaboration and strengthen practice and resea...

On Tuesday, Feb. 9, the Howard Baker Center hosted a lecture by Eric Gomez as part of their Global Security Lecture Series. Gomez is the director of defense policy studies at Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank organization based in Washington, D.C. Gomez began his lecture with discussion of the good news and bad news around the ongoing difficult relationship between the United States and China, and how more people are paying attention to China, which is a good thing, but this often means ...

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