President’s Message: Reinvention and Renewal May 10, 2016
From its inception 70 years ago, the founders and members of the Federation of American Scientists were reinventing themselves. Imagine yourself as a 26-year…
Read moreFrom its inception 70 years ago, the founders and members of the Federation of American Scientists were reinventing themselves. Imagine yourself as a 26-year…
Read moreThe Federation of American Scientists (FAS) formed after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, precisely because many scientists were genuinely concerned for the fate…
Read moreOn August 8, 2015, twenty-nine scientists sent a letter to President Obama in support of the agreement with Iran that would block (or at…
Read moreFrom its beginning, the Federation of American Scientists has been immersed in policies and issues regarding government secrecy and censorship. By the time World…
Read more“I was chairman of FAS from 1962-63. Fifty-year-old memories are hopelessly unreliable and historically worthless. Fortunately, my mother preserved the letters that I wrote…
Read more“I am sharing some memories of the period 1960-1970 when I served as FAS General Counsel. I start by echoing Freeman Dyson’s caution that…
Read moreFAS Staff Photo, April 1987. “When, in 1970, I descended from the FAS Executive Committee to become the chief executive officer, FAS had…
Read moreFrank von Hippel and Andrei Sakharov discuss the possibility of cutting U.S. and Soviet nuclear forces (without changing the basic war fighting approaches…
Read more“Supporting and expanding on Frank von Hippel’s cogent and exciting narrative of some of the great accomplishments of the Federation of American Scientists, I…
Read more“In late 1945, a group of scientists who had been involved with the Manhattan Project felt it was their civic duty to help inform the…
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