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However, there exist a number of serious concerns that should give proponents of Internet voting pause. Last month the California Internet Voting Task Force released a report that recommended against Internet voting from home because of security risks. We've witnessed the way that recent cyberattacks that all but crippled major websites; a similar assault on an official election website could easily bring the gears of reelection grinding to a chaotic halt. Do the benefits of increased enfranchisement really outweigh potential computer glitches that could call the validity of the entire process to question? Are we willing to turn voting...
According to a new Kennedy School report, the lack of true U.S. commitment to nuclear disarmament in Russia poses an ever-growing risk to national and world security...
...report's author, Matthew G. Bunn, the Kennedy School's assistant director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, said surplus stores of plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) have posing an increased threat to U.S. security. Both plutonium and HEU can be used to make nuclear bombs...
...report, Bunn calls for a doubling or tripling of current funding for the safeguarding and reduction of nuclear stockpiles. The increased budget, from $1 to $1.5 billion, would comprise one half of one percent of the U.S. defense budget...
...report comes on the heels of efforts by the U.S. to improve U.S.-Russia relations on the monitoring of nuclear weapons material...