New Environmental Assessment Reveals Fascinating Alternatives to Land-Based ICBMs July 13, 2022
A new Air Force environmental assessment reveals that it considered basing ICBMs in underground railway tunnels––or possibly underwater.
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Environmental Assessment Reveals New Details About the Air Force’s ICBM Replacement Plan November 3, 2020
Any time a US federal agency proposes a major action that “has the potential to cause significant effects on the natural or human environment,” they must complete an…
Read moreRemembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 75 Years After August 5, 2020
Seventy-five years later, we commemorate the nuclear attacks and the unspeakable human suffering they inflicted, which remind us of the uniquely destructive capability of nuclear weapons and the importance of ensuring that they are never used in anger again.
Read more75 Years Ago: The Trinity Nuclear Test July 16, 2020
The first ever nuclear detonation––known as the Trinity test––took place in New Mexico on July 16th, 1945. In the decades that followed, nuclear testing contaminated lands, oceans, and people, and triggered a nuclear arms race that continues to this day.
Read moreWidespread Blurring of Satellite Images Reveals Secret Facilities December 10, 2018
A Russian mapping service has selectively obscured political and military facilities in both Israel and Turkey, which has had the unintended effect of revealing their exact locations to the world.
Read moreA memory of Jeremy January 6, 2017
Jeremy Stone: If there has been a more vivid, more animated presence on the planet I have not encountered him or her. We met in our twenties when Jeremy sought…
Read moreJeremy J. Stone, 1935-2017 January 5, 2017
Jeremy J. Stone, a pioneering arms control advocate who served as president of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) from 1970 to 2000, passed away on January 1, 2017 at…
Read moreFAS Website Blocked by US Cyber Command, Then Unblocked September 14, 2016
For at least the past six months, and perhaps longer, the Federation of American Scientists website has been blocked by U.S. Cyber Command. This week it was…
Read moreIn Closing April 4, 2014
Last week, I was walking through Ueno Park as part of my annual cherry blossom pilgrimage. Among the trees and temples, I came across “The Flame of Hiroshima and…
Read moreWhy FAS Adjunct Fellowships Matter April 2, 2014
It is hard to believe that it has been almost two years since I accepted an Adjunct Fellow role here at FAS. To be honest, my time at FAS has…
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