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National Science Education Standards
The National Science Education Standards (NSES) are voluntary K-12 science standards published by the National Research Council in 1996, replaced by the Next Generation Science Standards in 2013.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency of the United States, established in 1950, that supports science and engineering in all 50 states chiefly by making grants.
National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility
The National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility, formerly the National Ice Core Laboratory, is a US repository in Lakewood, Colorado, storing over 22,000 meters of ice cores.
National science museum herbarium
The National Science Museum herbarium (KSM) is the Index Herbariorum-registered plant specimen collection of Korea's National Science Museum (국립중앙과학관) in Daejeon, founded 1945 in Seoul, relocated 1990.
National Securities Depository Limited
National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) is India's first and largest central securities depository, established in 1996 after the Harshad Mehta scam to hold shares electronically.
National security
National security: protection of a state, people, territory, economy, and institutions from threats via military, intelligence, diplomatic, economic, and domestic instruments; institutionalized by the 1947 National Security Act, expressed in national strategies, and debated against civil liberties and human security frames.
National Security (2003 film)
National Security is a 2003 American buddy cop action comedy directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn as security guards who uncover a smuggling operation.
National Security Act of 1947
The National Security Act of 1947 is a US federal law that created the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the position of Secretary of Defense.
National Security Advisor (India)
The National Security Advisor of India is the prime minister's chief adviser on national security, a post created in 1999 and held by Ajit Doval.
National Security Advisor (United States)
The US National Security Advisor, formally Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, heads the NSC staff, advises the President, and manages interagency national security policy without Senate confirmation.
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA), established November 4, 1952, is the U.S. Department of Defense agency for signals intelligence and cybersecurity, headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, with the Central Security Service coordinating military cryptology.
National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, also known as NSPD-51/HSPD-20, is a May 9, 2007 George W. Bush directive establishing national continuity of government, continuity of operations, and enduring constitutional government policy for catastrophic emergencies.
National Security Authority (Norway)
The National Security Authority (Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet, NSM) is Norway's government directorate for preventive security, established in 2003, supervising civilian and military sectors under the Security Act.
National Security Council (India)
India's National Security Council (NSC), set up in 1998-99, is the apex advisory body on national security chaired by the Prime Minister, with the NSA as secretary and a three-tier structure of SPG, NSAB, and NSCS; distinct from the UN Security Council and the statistical NSC.
National Security Guard (राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा गार्ड)
National Security Guard (राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा गार्ड, NSG): India's federal counter-terrorism force under the Ministry of Home Affairs, raised in 1984 and legally constituted by the NSG Act of 22 September 1986, with SAG and SRG elements, 17 standby task forces, and operations including Black Thunder and Black Tornado.
National Security Intelligence
National Security Intelligence is the collection and analysis of information about a state's relationship with foreign powers and organizations; in the United States, 18 Intelligence Community agencies perform it.
National Security Space Launch
National Security Space Launch (NSSL), formerly the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, is the US Department of Defense program buying launches for military and intelligence satellites.
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, reestablished in Santa Clara, California, in 1967, known for analog and mixed-signal chips and acquired by Texas Instruments in 2011 for about $6.5 billion.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, at 180 Greenwich Street on the former World Trade Center site in New York, commemorates the 2,983 victims of the 2001 and 1993 attacks with twin reflecting pools and bedrock exhibitions.
National service in Singapore
National Service in Singapore: compulsory conscription of male citizens and permanent residents under the Enlistment Act 1970, two years full-time plus reserve duty, introduced in 1967 in the SAF, SPF, and SCDF.
National Service Scheme
National Service Scheme (NSS), India's student community-service program under the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, launched 24 September 1969 with motto "Not Me But You", 120 volunteer hours yearly plus a 7-day camp.
National Service Training Program
National Service Training Program (NSTP), the Philippine tertiary civic program under Republic Act 9163 of 2001: mandatory two-semester service component (ROTC, CWTS, or LTS) for baccalaureate and two-year technical-vocational students, with CWTS and LTS graduates joining the National Service Reserve Corps.
National Shooting Sports Foundation
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the American firearms industry's trade association, chartered in 1961 and based in Shelton, Connecticut. It owns the SHOT Show and runs the Project ChildSafe safety program.
National ski mountaineering championships
National ski mountaineering championships are country-level championship series in ski mountaineering, typically season-long race series covering sprint, relay, individual, and team disciplines, as in France and Italy.
National Ski Patrol
National Ski Patrol (NSP), founded 1938 by Minnie Dole, is the federally chartered US ski safety and emergency care organization: 30,942 members in 2025, 578 patrols at 494 resorts, Outdoor Emergency Care training, volunteer and professional divisions.
National Soaring Museum
The National Soaring Museum is an aviation museum on Harris Hill in Elmira, New York, preserving the history of motorless flight and administering the United States Soaring Hall of Fame.
National Socialist black metal
National Socialist black metal (NSBM) is a neo-Nazi offshoot of black metal that emerged in the early 1990s, promoting Aryan superiority, paganism and anti-globalization through bands such as Graveland, Absurd, and Burzum.
National Socialist Council of Nagaland
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN): Naga nationalist insurgent group founded 1980 from NNC dissidents rejecting the Shillong Accord; split in 1988 into NSCN-IM (Isak, Muivah) and NSCN-K (Khaplang); NSCN-IM signed the 1997 ceasefire and the 2015 Framework Agreement with India.
National Socialist Movement (United States)
National Socialist Movement (NSM), also NSM88, American neo-Nazi group founded 1974 from American Nazi Party remnants, led by Jeff Schoep 1994–2019, then Burt Colucci; once the largest US neo-Nazi group, now in steep decline.
National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie
National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977), the Skokie case, held Illinois must give immediate appellate review before denying stays of injunctions restraining First Amendment speech, enabling neo-Nazis' march rights.