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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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People shelter in a subway station during Russian missiles attack on May 29, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey via Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden delivers a brief update of the ongoing negotiations over the debt limit in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 17, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
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A TV showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch on March 24, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the oval office on National Security on March 23, 1983. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2017. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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A police officer stops a car at a check point ahead of the February 25 presidential election at Awka in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, on February 16, 2023. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands after delivering a joint statement in Moscow, on March 21, 2023. (Mikhail Tereshchenko/AFP via Getty Images)
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A display at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum shows how many nuclear weapons remain in the world on August 12, 2012. (Tim Wright via Flickr)
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A Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV at the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology in Taichung on March 14, 2023. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden participates in a virtual bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 15, 2021, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (Official White House via Flickr)
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The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alaska returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay following routine operations on January 7, 2015. (US Navy photo by Rex Nelson)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
