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Globally, in 1986 eight states controlled an estimated 64,449 nuclear warheads. Today, nine states control an estimated 12,200 warheads (including retired warheads awaiting dismantlement)—with the United States and Russia possessing 87 percent of those weapons. That’s an 81% reduction over 40 years.
A color graphic prepared by the Federation of American Scientists showing "Estimated Global Nuclear Warhead Inventories, 2025" by country, with each of the nine nuclear-weapon states highlighted in color with a "bubble" indicating the number of nuclear weapons and whether the number is increasing, decreasing, or stable. Link: https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/
January 15, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Read the memo 🔗 fas.org/publication/...
Turning Community Colleges into Engines of Economic Mobility
Here is how smart education policy can make community colleges drivers of economic mobility, employment, and dynamism in local communities.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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To mark the occasion, FAS CEO Daniel Correa spoke with @sgrodriques.bsky.social and @adammarblestone.bsky.social about how best to run a Tech Lab/FRO-style org, what they've learned, and the role federal funding can play:
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NSF Wants To Supercharge FROs. We Spoke With the Scientists Who Proposed Them.
We recently spoke with Adam Marblestone and Sam Rodriques, former FAS fellows who developed the idea for FROs and advocated for their use in a 2020 policy memo.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Their idea, focused research organizations, was the kind of lateral approach to S&T we need if we want to make strides in a range of research trajectories not well-incentivized in traditional research settings - think brain mapping, tool development, and more
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Read Jennifer's remarks below
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scientistsorg.bsky.social Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · Dec 2
"We are in the midst of a national organ harvesting crisis, and corruption within taxpayer-funded organ procurement organizations is the problem."

FAS Senior Fellow Jennifer Erickson just testified before Congress to hold corrupt OPOs accountable. Here's (just some of) what she told them 🧵👇
There is a national organ harvesting crisis. Why? Corruption within taxpayer-funded organ procurement organizations. We went Senior Fellow Jennifer Erickson to tell Congress about it. Here is her testimony.
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Thanks to Leah Walker, Glenn Parham, Jacob Heim, Michael Horowitz, Helen Toner, Isaac Harris, and Hamza Chaudhry for sharing their expertise.

And shoutout to our dream team: @yblim.bsky.social, @jonatomic.bsky.social, @technolliegist.bsky.social t.bsky.social & Gil Ruiz for making it all happen. 🙌
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"The fixes are as apparent as the problems are abhorrent: any organ contractor who has abused the public trust, either through harming patients and misleading families, or misusing its tax status and taxpayer dollars must be immediately replaced, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
I believe in organ donation. There are OPOs that do the job with integrity, and many brave frontline workers who have sounded the alarm on their industry, only to have been silenced and retaliated against when they tried to protect patients. The need for action is urgent. We can no longer expect the American people to blindly trust contractors who endanger their lives. The fixes are as apparent as the problems are abhorrent: any organ contractor who has abused the public trust, either through harming patients and misleading families, or misusing its tax status and taxpayer dollars must be immediately replaced, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"IRS 990s show OPOs have transferred more than half a billion dollars to ‘related organizations’ where uses of taxpayer funds get pushed even further into the shadows."
The details are chilling: a patient who had been declared deceased “reanimated”, and “[a]ccording to information obtained by the Committee”, New Jersey Sharing Network’s CEO told “staff on site that they should proceed with recovery… Several whistleblowers have alleged that documentation regarding this case has been deleted or otherwise manipulated.” I am grateful that the Committee is following the money in this multibillion dollar industry. IRS 990s show OPOs have transferred more than half a billion dollars to ‘related organizations’ where uses of taxpayer funds get pushed even further into the shadows.
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM