Our Mission
Preventing the spread of WMD, delivery systems, and advanced conventional weapons capabilities — and rolling back such proliferation where it has already taken root — and protecting the United States’ critical and emerging technologies is the mission of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN). In close collaboration with other bureaus within the State Department, other U.S. agencies, and a diverse range of international and non-governmental partners, ISN tracks, develops, and implements effective policy responses to proliferation threats and shapes the international security environment to prevent their recurrence.
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Securing Semiconductors: How to Scale-up Global Semiconductor Production and Protect U.S. National Security at the Same Time
Last August, Congress passed bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, and science and technology to keep the United States the leader in nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. Since then, the State Department has been hard […]
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November 27, 2023
AUKUS: A Commitment to the Future
Our Priorities
Export Controls Policy
The United States uses export controls to protect national security interests and promote our foreign policy objectives. The State Department also employs export controls to prevent state and non-state actors from using goods and technologies to abuse human rights.
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In September 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced AUKUS – a new security partnership that will promote a free and open Indo-Pacific that is secure and stable.
Learn more about AUKUS AUKUSNonproliferation Sanctions
The United States imposes sanctions under various legal authorities against foreign individuals, private entities, and governments that engage in proliferation activities, including Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
Learn more about Nonproliferation Sanctions Nonproliferation SanctionsThe CHIPS Act
In August 2022, President Biden signed the CHIPS Act, a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress that provides billions of dollars in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States.
Learn more about the CHIPS Act The CHIPS ActOffices
- Office of Congressional and Public Affairs
- Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction
- Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction
- Office of Counterproliferation Initiatives
- Office of Critical Technology Protection
- Office of Export Control Cooperation
- Office of Missile, Biological, and Chemical Nonproliferation
- Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs
- Office of Nuclear Energy, Safety, and Security
- Office of Policy Coordination
- Office of The Biological Policy Staff
- Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund
- Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism