By Kay Howell These holidays I’m in the same boat as many of my fellow parents. Our kids are pestering us to buy the latest alien-war-car-crash video games. We shudder with guilt — knowing we’ll cave in and buy them anyway. I hear a lot about this from my friends. They know I am part [...]
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The Nuclear Bunker Buster Is Dangerous, Ineffective, and Unneeded
By Ivan Oelrich On October 26, Pete Domenici, Republican Senator from New Mexico and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, announced that Congress halted funding on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), or “nuclear bunker buster,” at the request of the administration. The effort will be transferred from the Department of [...]
Thinking About The Reliable Replacement Warhead
By Ivan Oelrich The United States maintains an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons with yields of hundreds of kilotons. All of these weapons are left over from the Cold War and sometimes called “legacy weapons”. Although modifications to existing weapons, such as enhancements to allow greater shockwave coupling to the earth, are possible and [...]
Board of Directors Meeting –10 June 2005
The FAS Annual Board of Directors Meeting was held on 10 June 2005, at Smith & Wollensky in Washington, DC. The FAS directors reviewed recent developments and shared thoughts on the future of the organization. During the official business meeting, the directors voted unanimously to expand the maximum number of Board members from 18 to [...]
The Virtual Patient –An Innovative Training Simulation
By Monica Amarelo On June 27–28, The Federation of American Scientists’ Learning Federation Project brought together educational researchers, medical practitioners and video game developers for a workshop at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, to discuss trends in simulation-based education and training programs in medicine and how best to make these [...]
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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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