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FAS Public Interest Report
The Journal of the Federation of American Scientists
May / June 2002
Volume 55, Number 3
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Closing the Gaps: Securing Highly Enriched Uranium

FAS offers three proposals to reduce foreign stockpiles of high-enriched uranium. Implementation of these three proposals would significantly reduce the risk that terrorists or other groups might divert HEU for use in nuclear weapons. More...


Utilizing Information Technology to Prepare the Nation’s Responders to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Events

Preparing military and civilian medical and emergency personnel to respond effectively to incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons is an essential part of a balanced response to these new threats. More...

Dirty Bombs Continued

Answers to several of the questions we have received about our analysis of the dirty bomb threat published in the March/April PIR. More...

Senate Acts on Nuclear Materials Security

On June 26, the Senate passed an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill implementing many of the recommendations made recently by FAS researchers in studies of radiological weapons and of highly-enriched uranium. More...

Radically Improving How We Learn: Seizing the Opportunity

While the U.S. educational enterprise is among the best in the world, the variances in results and access are far too great. The median results are too low and the bottom end of the performance curve is also much too low. More...
 


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Attention FAS Members!

In our continuing effort to provide FAS members with lively and timely articles in national security policy and other areas of science and technology policy, we are inviting members to submit proposals for articles in areas of interest to FAS members (maximum 1000 words). Selection of the articles is at the discretion of the Editor. Completed articles will be peer reviewed.

Proposals should be sent to the Editor, PIR, Federation of American Scientists, 1717 K St. NW, Suite 209, Washington, DC 20036, or to fas@fas.org. Please provide us with your full address including email in all correspondence.