[[File:Biden Afghan experts.PNG|right|350400|px|thumb|Masterminds of the [[Fall of Kabul|Afghan crisis]]: (immediate right} [[Antony Blinken]]; {(left, unmasked) [[Jo Biden]]; (far side of table) [[Jake Sullivan]], [[Lloyd Austin]], [[Mark Milley]], unknown.]]
The '''National Security Council''' ('''NSC''') was created in 1947 for coordinating and implementing [[national security]] and [[foreign policy]]. By law, the President, the [[Vice President]],<ref><small>[[President Truman]], who signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law, was kept in the dark about the development and existence of the [[atomic bomb]] while serving as Vice President, and only learned of it after being sworn into office upon President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s death. Prior to the National Security Act, vice presidents had little or no statutory duties in any administration other than their constitutional office as President of the Senate. For the first time a law was enacted giving the vice president duties and obligations within an administration, granting him access to its most classified secrets, and making the vice president an integral part of decision making.</small></ref> [[Secretary of State]], [[Secretary of Defense]], [[Secretary of Energy]], Chairman of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], [[Director of National Intelligence]], and the Director of National Drug Control Policy are members.