By Monica Amarelo On May 11, the Federation of American Scientists premiered the documentary “Paths to Zero” at the United Nations during the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to ...
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New START Treaty Reduces Limit for Strategic Warheads But Not Number
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A Step in the Right Direction: The Obama Administration’s 2010 Nuclear Posture Review
By Hans Kristensen In April 2010, the Obama administration released its Nuclear ...
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Harold Smith Elected New Chairman of the FAS Board
By Monica Amarelo Harold Smith was elected as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is a technology, foreign policy, and defense expert who is a distinguished visiting scholar with the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). Asked about his new role at FAS, Dr. Smith [...]
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Transparency in Nuclear Weapons Policy
By Charles D. Ferguson Transparency is one the most important concepts in nuclear weapons policy. Certain nations have the luxury of being transparent about their nuclear arsenals and doctrines, and others do not. Because of U.S. conventional military superiority and because of the large number of U.S. nuclear arms, the administration can be more transparent [...]
Learning By Doing
By Melanie Ann Stegman, Director of the Educational Technologies Program Immune Attack teaches students about specific molecular processes during game play. But, like many video games, Immune Attack also inspires players to create their own games based on the same world and premise. FAS joined Dr. Kevin Clark, an associate professor at George Mason University, [...]
Small Arms in Iraq Vulnerable to Theft and Diversion
By Matt Buongiorno, Scoville Fellow, FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project and Nuclear Information Project The Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF), later succeeded by the Iraq Security Forces Fund (ISFF), was established as a train-and-equip program charged with quickly delivering weaponry to the Iraq Security Force (ISF) and related Iraqi entities. While the ad hoc [...]
Building on Success — Development of Immune Attack (IA) 2.0.
By Melanie Ann Stegman, Director of the Educational Technologies Program In May 2008, the Federation of American Scientists released Immune Attack 1.0. The game was downloaded more than 8000 times, with over 500 teachers registering to evaluate it. Surveys of teachers and students indicated that the game was engaging and created an interest in biology. [...]
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Building Inspector Second Life Training Pilot Program
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FAS Housing Technology Project Reaches Turkey and Azerbaijan
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Harold Smith Elected New Chairman of the FAS Board
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Founder of FAS and Manhattan Project Veteran Dies at 89
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A House That Pleases Home Buyers, Builders and Environmentalists
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Paths to Zero Premiers at United Nations
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Concludes in Final Document
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U.S. and Britain Disclose Size of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile
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New START Treaty Reduces Limit for Strategic Warheads But Not Number
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A Step in the Right Direction: The Obama Administration’s 2010 Nuclear Posture Review
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