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…
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The Legacy of the Federation of American Scientists May 9, 2016
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) formed after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, precisely because many scientists were genuinely concerned for the fate…
Read moreScientists and Nuclear Weapons, 1945-2015 May 9, 2016
On 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 moreGovernment Secrecy and Censorship May 9, 2016
From its beginning, the Federation of American Scientists has been immersed in policies and issues regarding government secrecy and censorship. By the time World…
Read moreFAS History, 1961-1963 May 9, 2016
“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 moreFAS in the 1960s: Formative Years May 9, 2016
“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 moreRevitalizing and Leading FAS: 1970-2000 May 9, 2016
FAS Staff Photo, April 1987. “When, in 1970, I descended from the FAS Executive Committee to become the chief executive officer, FAS had…
Read moreFAS’s Contribution to Ending the Cold War Nuclear Arms Race May 9, 2016
Frank von Hippel and Andrei Sakharov discuss the possibility of cutting U.S. and Soviet nuclear forces (without changing the basic war fighting approaches…
Read moreFAS Engagement With China May 9, 2016
“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 moreNuclear Legacies: Public Understanding and FAS May 9, 2016
“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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