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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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 [...]
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. [...]









