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Climate change exacerbates the underlying social and governmental weaknesses that violent groups profit from.

It has become all too common-almost second nature-for people inWashington to leak information. These leaks put our operationalcapabilities at risk and allow our enemies to manipulate theinformation for possible use against us. We need to give theDepartment of Justice all the tools it needs to identify andprosecute individuals who deliberately share classifiedintelligence.

The U.S. spends roughly 1.5% of its $761 billion defense budget on missile defense development and deployment while still lagging on hypersonic weapon development.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 66 T October 12, 1978 INTRODUCTION During the past six years detente with the Soviet Union has been one of the most controversial topics of American politics Widely discussed by the media, argued about by politicians as well as learned Sovietologists, the accurate meaning of detente, one of the most flexible catchwords of our political vocabulary, seems to constantly elude us.

Clinton signed the National Missile Defense Act (H.R. 4) into lawand established as the policy of the United States the decision todeploy a national missile defense system as soon as technologicallypossible.

Like the bone-chilling Siberian winter winds, the bad news just keeps howling out of Mother Russia these days.

Congress should reject cut and run and instead allow the militaryto finish the job of training Iraqi security forces that arecapable of supporting the government, dealing with sectarianviolence, and protecting the civilian population.

Like much of the rest of the world, North Korea is experiencing more frequent and more intense climate-related disasters. In the last few years, it has seen its longest drought and longest rain season in over a century. In 2021, the country’s reclusive dictator, Kim Jong Un, called for immediate steps to mitigate the dramatic impacts of climate change, which compound other challenges facing the country, like food insecurity. While North Korea is not exactly known for its efforts to cooperate w...

After seemingly endless rounds of talks with its Polish and Czech counterparts about fielding a missile defense system in Europe, the United States made some progressin early February when Warsaw and Washington jointly announced they had reached an agreement—in principle—to move forward with the deployment of ten interceptors in Poland.

On March 10, Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testified that North Korea “may now have several plutonium-based nuclear warheads that it can deliver by ballistic missiles and aircraft as well as unconventional means.” It is uncertain whether Lt. General Burgess’s statement is based on new intelligence reporting or a higher level of confidence that DIA has in the new analytic assessment.