Department of Defense

photo of Pete Hegseth walking down a hallway of a Senate office building, flanked by his wife to the left and an anonymous staffer to the right

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

January 13, 2025

Congress Needs to Ask Pete Hegseth Tough Questions

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

photo of the United Nations headquarters in New York City; in the background, the tower rises against a blue sky and, in the foreground, a row of various nations' flags flutter in the breeze

Doug Armand/Getty Images

October 29, 2024

Why the World Needs a New UN Study on the Effects of Nuclear War

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

photo of a Minuteman missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California streaking across the night sky over a suburban neighborhood

August 14, 2024

The Price of the Sentinel Nuclear Weapons Program Keeps Going Up—But the True Costs Are Even Higher

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

photo of the US Capitol at dusk, with its silhouette and streetlights reflected on water in the foreground

Jeffrey Clayton/Unsplash

June 26, 2024

Congress Could Save $100B and Make Us Safer by Cancelling Sentinel

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

Mackenzie Marco/Unsplash

August 2, 2023

The Sky’s the Limit on Nuclear Weapons Spending, But What Does It Really Get Us?

Eryn MacDonald
Global Security Analyst

Ileen Kennedy/US Army, CC BY 2.0

January 17, 2023

Four Quotes From Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex Speech That Still Resonate Today

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

Press gallery, house.gov

January 12, 2023

In 2020 and 2022, Voting to Cut Pentagon Budget Didn’t Result in House Losses

Kevin Davis
Washington Representative

Touch Of Light/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

December 14, 2022

Defense Spending Reaches Record High as Pentagon Fails Its Audit – For Fifth Time

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

US Secretary of Defense/Flickr

April 13, 2021

Biden Holds Tight to the Trump Defense Budget

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

Photo: lunamarina/Shutterstock

May 21, 2020

Firing of Inspectors General Slides Us Closer to Autocracy

Ken Kimmell
Former President

Northrop Grumman

May 18, 2020

Satellite Database Update: More than 2,600 Active Satellites Orbiting the Earth

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

Photo: U.S. Department of Defense

February 14, 2019

10 Things the Department of Defense Needs to Include in Their New Climate Change Report

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

May 16, 2018

Bipartisan Outrage as EPA, White House Try to Cover Up Chemical Health Assessment

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor