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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 strategic utility. “Hypersonic weapons are widely promoted as revolutionary missile technologies. That...

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. security by reducing the risk of nuclear war, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). As hig...

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 research across academia, government, non-profits, and industry.

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 the relationship is going to get worse. “I don’t study happy things, I study very weighty ...

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