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FAS Public Interest Report
The Journal of the Federation of American Scientists
Winter 2004
Volume 57, Number 1
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The Future of Nuclear Power

by Dr. John Deutch and Dr. Ernest J. Moniz
This report provids a comprehensive analysis of nuclear power related issues, covering economics, safety, and waste management as well as public attitudes toward nuclear power and proliferation concerns. More...


Taiwan Pins Hope on Science

Taiwanese share a strong consensus that technology has been good to the nation and remains the undisputed hope for its future – a belief that has endured through the rough economic times of the past few years. More...

Field Workshops on Degraded Lands for Chinese Environmental NGO’s

An interdisciplinary group of about 40 Chinese natural resource scientists and Chinese environmental NGO representatives from 17 of China’s 26 provinces and municipalities, participated in a degraded-lands field workshop in Guangdong Province. More...


Cooperative Threat Reduction: The View from Washington

When the Soviet Union collapsed, ending the Cold War, the world became a far less dangerous place. But not all the news was good, especially in the short term. More...

FAS Works towards the Creation of the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust

The productive working relationship among FAS’s Learning Technologies project, the Learning Federation and the Digital Promise Project continues, and has enabled the projects to reach several significant milestones. More...


International Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs

With first-hand knowledge, bioscientists are the most qualified to devise pragmatic strategies for modifying research methods to enhance security without stifling inquiry and discovery. More...

Preventing Nuclear Proliferation in Latin America: The Treaty of Tlatelolco

Today, nuclear proliferation in Latin America is not regarded as a significant threat. Yet rather than detracting from the importance of the Tlatelolco regime, this should serve as a reminder of what the Treaty has accomplished. More...

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The Strategic Security Project at FAS has created a new section of the FAS website (www.fas.org/ssp/1-pagers/) to share information about a variety of science-related security issues. These short articles include summaries of many FAS reports, such as upcoming dirty bombs and gas centrifuge uranium enrichment technology, as well as more basic information, such as why monitoring krypton-85 is an indicator of plutonium reprocessing. We welcome your suggestions for additional topics. If appropriate, we will work with you to develop the best possible content. Please contact Dr. Benn Tannenbaum (btannenbaum@fas.org; 202 546 3300) to submit ideas.

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Better Active Today than Radioactive Tomorrow

by Frank N. von Hippel

A Review of Toward nuclear abolition: A history of the world nuclear disarmament movement, 1971 to the present. This volume is the third in Lawrence Wittner’s series The Struggle Against the Bomb, published by Stanford University Press, 2003. More...

A Place to Work Together

by Michael Douglas

Actor Michael Douglas delivered this speech as part of a briefing made to the US Congress on October 2, 2003. The session was entitled "The Limits of Unilateralism" and was hosted by the House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force on Non-Proliferation in cooperation with the Bipartisan Security Group, a program of the Global Security Institute. More...

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