• Trump Official Urges Governors to Help with Immigration Arrests of “Worst of the Worst”

    The nation’s top immigration official said arrests would prove safer with the cooperation of city and state law enforcement.

  • NORTHCOM CONPLAN 3900: A Prelude to Insurrection Act Invocation?

    The episodic call-up of National Guard units to respond to high-profile domestic events over the last 60+ years (enforcing civil rights laws, assisting with natural disaster recovery, etc.) is nothing new. What is new and decidedly ominous is the creation of specific, permanent military units designed and equipped to directly confront citizens engaged in unspecified, currently nonexistent “civil disturbances.”

  • What to Make of the New Proposed U.S./Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement

    When the full details come out, we should watch closely for adequate guardrails, loopholes, any indications that enrichment technology may be transferred to Saudi Arabia, to be able to answer the key question about whether, on balance, this agreement prevents nuclear proliferation or encourages it.

  • U.S.‑Saudi Nuclear Deal Invites Proliferation Risks … Unless Safeguards Are Written In

    The most effective way to reduce the regional proliferation risk of the deal is prohibiting indigenous Saudi uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing. Should the U.S. allow enrichment, implementing a black box facility and stringent IAEA safeguards would mitigate any risk of Riyadh gaining expertise for a future nuclear weapons program.

  • New Research Reveals Mass Shootings and Suicide Deaths Share Summer Peaks

    A new study has found that mass shootings and deaths by suicide in the United States share seasonal patterns, reaching their highest levels during summer months.

  • What to Know About Pickaxe Mountain

    Construction of the Pickaxe mountain facility started in the fall of 2020, and at the time Iran announced that the underground halls were intended to replace the destroyed above-ground advanced centrifuge assembly facility at the main Natanz site. The destroyed site was designed to assemble about 6000 advanced centrifuges per year, a large capacity, sized to produce the tens of thousands of advanced centrifuges during and after the phasing out of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action limits from 2025 through 2030.

  • The Drone Revolution That Isn’t

    Drones have indeed become indispensable military tools. They have democratized access to aerial reconnaissance, improved tactical precision, and lowered the cost of surveillance and strike missions. But the public discourse has drifted from acknowledging their importance to declaring them revolutionary. The conclusion that drones have changed warfare forever is only half correct.

  • Force Multipliers: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts

    The use of Autonomous Weapon Systems has changed the dynamics of warfare in recent times. The rise of Artificial Intelligence has reshaped military power, strategies and decision-making in war. AI is transforming modern combat through greater speed, precision and low-cost deployment.

  • Rapidly Testing Portable Security Systems

    Sandia National Laboratories led a field exercise designed to test rapidly deployable security technologies in rugged, remote conditions. The challenge was not just whether a drone could be detected by radar or whether a sensor could spot movement across rough terrain. The bigger question was whether all that information could move through a portable security system fast enough to help people make decisions in the field.

  • Immigrants, DHS agents and traffic stops: Violent outcomes repeat across the U.S.

    ICE agents used live rounds to shoot at 22 people since January 2025 – 19 of them involved DHS officers shooting on people in their vehicles during traffic stops. Since January 2025, federal immigration officers have killed six people, three of them U.S. citizens. Four deaths came during traffic stops.

  • Religious Motivation Needs to Stay in Our Terrorism Laws

    Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is right to reject the proposal to remove religious motivation from Australia’s terrorism laws. The proposal rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those laws are designed to do. Australia’s counterterrorism laws do not regulate extremism. They regulate the progression from extremist belief to politically motivated violence.

  • Remotely Coerced Violence: 764, The Com Network, and the Hybridization of Threats

    Nihilistic violent extremism is best understood as a victim-driven, youth-centered online ecosystem in which status, belonging, and identity are earned through the production, circulation, and escalation of harm. It combine sadistic online exploitation, cybercrime, self-directed violence, animal abuse, school-violence threats, and terrorist or violent-extremist conduct.

  • The Trump Administration’s Global Campaign Against “Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built on a National Security Memo without Congressional Approval

    NSPM-7, a little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters. Although left-wing violence has risen in the past decade, empirical evidence shows it remains far below historical levels of right-wing or jihadist violence. Yet NSPM-7 focuses disproportionately on left-wing ideologies.

  • Researchers: No Guarantee Against Another Terrorist Attack, Despite Increased Surveillance

    77 people were killed on 22 July 2011 in Norway. ‘Never again’ became a national promise. 15 years later, terrorism researchers cannot rule out that a similar attack could happen again. “A society that would be able to guarantee against terrorist attacks is, unfortunately, probably a society we would not want,” says one expert.

  • The U.S. Murder Rate Fell to Historic Lows in 2025 – Here’s Why

    The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history. Homicide rates have closely followed three trends over the past decade: alcohol consumption, drug abuse and firearm purchases. Now that the drug and alcohol crises are waning and gun purchases are falling, so too is the murder rate.