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Mandy Smithberger

Mandy Smithberger is the director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight, in Washington, DC, where her work focuses on Pentagon reform and the defense budget. You can follow her work @StrausReform.


Articles by Mandy Smithberger

The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: pandemics and climate change

By Mandy Smithberger | Nuclear Risk
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500,000,000,000 reasons to scrutinize the US plan for nuclear weapons

By Kingston Reif, Mandy Smithberger | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons