By Christine Parthemore President Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will be released soon. When it is, it will make several policy changes that should greatly benefit U.S. security and international leadership. One is that the NPR will reportedly declare that…
By Lillian Parr As COVID-19 cases fall in most parts of the U.S. and a sense of normalcy begins to return, it is tempting to think that the pandemic is no longer a major threat. However, this is not the…
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By Elsa Barron In early March, the U.S. House of Representatives hosted two hearings on climate adaptation in the United States. Given the current and future risks posed by climate change, including sea-level rise, intensifying natural disasters, and extreme temperatures,…
Read More U.S. House Adaptation Hearings Offer Insights for Climate Security Action
Challenge Accepted, a new report issued by 79 senior national security experts recognizes the prioritization of climate change in the Administration’s security plans, but states it’s time to move from plans to bolder and more concrete action. On March 31,…
By John Conger On March 16, 2022, the Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing to discuss matters dealing with energy, installations, and environment at the Department of Defense. The witnesses were Paul Cramer, Acting Assistant…
Read More HIGHLIGHTS: House Armed Services Committee Talks Climate Strategies and Resiliency
Part of the impetus to launch the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) was our concern that catastrophic risks were rising. The global security environment is experiencing monumental strains, including from the weakening of long-held norms, clear violations of the rules-based…
Read More CSR Receives Major Grant to Address the Rising Risks of Nuclear Conflict
By Elsa Barron In 2019, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) released the Climate Security Plan for America, which called on the U.S. President to “recognize climate change as a vital national security threat, and issue a National Strategy…
On Friday, March 11, the U.N. Security Council met at the request of Russia to discuss unsubstantiated and spurious claims that the United States is supporting biological and chemical weapons laboratories in Ukraine—the latest action in a long-running Russian disinformation…
Read More The Deeply Dangerous Spread of Russian Disinformation on Biological Weapons
By Dr. Marc Kodack The U.S. Army released its first climate strategy on February 8, the first Service within the Department of Defense (DoD) to do so. This post summarizes and comments directly on the strategy, following up with a…
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By Andrea Rezzonico The Council on Strategic Risks is today releasing Understanding the Threat of Biological Weapons in a World With COVID-19, an in-depth study of how the COVID-19 pandemic could influence the desirability and development of deliberate biological threats…
Read More New Report: Understanding the Threat of Biological Weapons in a World with COVID-19
