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• If Iran accepts new inspections, can the US even make them work?

  23-06-2026 04:07 via defenseone.com
  
  A new U.S.-Iran peace plan can work only if the United States can overcome three difficult challenges, experts said: the Iranians must agree to tighter international inspections, the inspecting agency must fix its budget crisis, and the White House must heed nuclear experts over real-estate developers with ties to President Trump.As U.S. and Iranian diplomats met in Switzerland on Monday, they seemed unable to agree even about whether they disagreed on inspections. U.S. Vice President JD Vance t
  
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• 'A huge grab of power': Trump is defying Congress on foreign aid

  23-06-2026 02:35 via defenseone.com
  
  After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so. So this year, Trump officials asked Congress for permission to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and dramatically reduce federal spendin
  
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• Executive orders seek to hasten quantum computing—and guard against its use

  23-06-2026 00:06 via defenseone.com
  
  Two two executive orders on Monday aim to hasten the arrival of useful quantum computers while protecting U.S. systems from them.“Innovation and security have to be balanced,” National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said during the White House signing ceremony on Monday.As expected, the orders address different aspects of the burgeoning quantum information sciences and technology landscape.One, “Ushering In The Next Frontier Of Quantum Innovation,” launches “a
  
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