Congress Mandates Studies on Nuclear War

摘要

Congress has mandated a new assessment from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on "the potential environmental effects of nuclear war" to be completed within 18 months. This study requirement, which was included in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), follows a less ambitious requirement on related issues that was tucked into the fiscal year 2020 version of the defense bill.