The Doomsday Clock Measures More Than Nuclear Risk – and It’s About to Be Reset Again
How long to midnight? In less than 24 hours the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will update the Doomsday Clock. It’s currently […] More
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Countering WMD Threats in Iraq
The Department of State’s Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction ISN/CTR administers WMD threat reduction activities for Iraq in partnership with government, security, […] More
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Countering North Korean WMD Proliferation
The Department of State’s Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is funding assistance awards for projects that focuses on mitigating Weapons of […] More
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DTRA Side-Steps COVID Challenges to Continue Support to International Partners
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) traditional “boots on the ground” approach to build security cooperation capacity with partner nations met with […] More
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At Nonproliferation Forum, U.S. Urges Chemical Weapons Norms for Global Partnership
The United States used its 2020 chair of a multilateral nonproliferation forum to prioritize restoring the norm against chemical weapons usage. Nations […] More
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Army Turbulence Model Predicts Dispersion of CBRN Threats in Atmosphere
Breakthrough research from Army scientists in the fundamentals of atmospheric turbulence modeling provides a prototype model for the dispersion of the chemical, […] More
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State Department Cooperative Nuclear Threat Reduction Partnership Funding
The State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) administers the Partnership for Nuclear Threat Reduction […] More
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Coronavirus is Only One of 10 Catastrophic Threats Facing Humans Right Now
Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous […] More
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DTRA to Award $51.5 Million to CWMD University Research Alliances
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) recently awarded cooperative agreements to establish two new University Research Alliances (URAs); these alliances are part […] More
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An India-Pakistan Nuclear War Could Kill Millions, Threaten Global Starvation
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people–more than the […] More
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Space-Based Radar Suggests North Korean Nuke Equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground […] More
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FBI Selects Donald Alway as Assistant Director of the WMD Directorate
Director Christopher Wray has named Donald Alway as the Assistant Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Directorate at FBI Headquarters […] More
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