FAS’s online, quarterly science and security journal featuring articles by members of the FAS network on issues related to foreign policy and national security.
For prior issues of the FAS Public Interest Report from 1946-2005 see the PIR archive.
by Charles D. Ferguson, Ph.D. Imagine thousands and potentially millions of scientists committed to making the world safer and more secure. This was the vision of the dedicated group of…
Read moreby Manit Shah and Jose Trevino The majority of all nuclear experts and diplomats, as well as aspiring nuclear and policy students, must have their eyes set on North Korea’s…
Read moreby Nasser Bin Nasser In the previous issue of the Public Interest Report (Spring 2015), Dr. Charles Ferguson’s President’s Message focused on the importance of empathy in science and security…
Read moreby Edward A. Friedman Roadside bombs were devastating to American troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The press has categorized the moment prior to such an explosion as…
Read moreby Dr. Frank A. Settle General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb (Praeger, 2016) provides the first full narrative describing General Marshall’s crucial role in the first decade of…
Read moreProfessor Rob Goldston teaches in the areas of nuclear energy and non-proliferation at Princeton University. Rob is a leading researcher in plasma physics and fusion energy. He was…
Read moreby Markus Schiller, Robert Schmucker, and James Kim In May 2015, only a month after key figures in the U.S. military publicly acknowledged the possibility that North Korea has perfected…
Read moreby Steven Starr While it is impossible to precisely predict all the human impacts that would result from a nuclear winter, it is relatively simple to predict those which would…
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