Federation of American Scientists

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is an "organization founded in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists," its website states. FAS "founders were members of the Manhattan Project, creators of the atom bomb and deeply concerned about the implications of its use for the future of humankind.

"Known in its early years as the 'scientists lobby,' FAS combines the scholarly resources of its member scientists and informed citizens with knowledge of practical politics. Endorsed by the nearly 60 Nobel Laureates in biology, chemistry, economics, medicine, and physics as sponsors, FAS is uniquely qualified to bring the scientific perspective to public policy. FAS' strategies include advocacy, briefings with policy makers and the press, public education and outreach, collaboration with civil rights, human rights, and arms control groups, and grassroots organizing. "

FAS works to challenge excessive government secrecy and promote public oversight with their FAS Project on Government Secrecy. Part of the project includes the distribution of the free electronic newsletter Secrecy News, which provides informal coverage of new developments in secrecy, security and intelligence policies.

Additional projects include
 * Arms Sales Monitoring Project
 * Chemical & Biological Arms Control Program
 * Strategic Security Project

Directors
Accessed September 2009:


 * Arthur H. Rosenfeld - Chairman
 * Steven Weinberg - Vice-Chairman
 * Ivan Oelrich - FAS Acting President
 * Rosina M. Bierbaum - Secretary/Treasurer

Other Board Members
 * Philip B. Carter - President, Thurman-Zumwalt Foundation (TZF)
 * Esther Dyson - EDventure Holdings
 * Lee Fikes - President and CEO, Leland Fikes Foundation
 * David R. Franz - Director, National Agricultural Biosecurity Center at Kansas State University
 * Richard L. Garwin - IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York
 * Nathaniel Goldhaber - Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures
 * Eamon Michael Kelly - Executive Director, Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer at Tulane University
 * Neal Lane - Malcolm Gillis University Professor and Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University
 * Gilman Louie - Partner at Alsop Louie Partners
 * J. Kevin Moran - Chief Operating Officer, The Investor Relations Group
 * Kumar N. Patel - Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
 * Harold Smith - Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor with the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB)
 * Richard Wald - Fred Friendly Professor of Journalism, The Journalism School, Columbia University
 * Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology, and Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ex Officio:
 * Carl Kaysen
 * Robert Solow
 * Frank von Hippel

Funders
Accessed September 2009:


 * Anonymous
 * California Energy Commission
 * Carnegie Corporation of New York
 * Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 * Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
 * Department of Commerce
 * Department of Defense
 * Department of Education
 * Department of Energy
 * Entertainment Software Association
 * ESA Foundation
 * Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
 * Ford Foundation
 * HKH Foundation
 * Institute for Museums and Library Services
 * John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
 * John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
 * KnowledgeWorks Foundation
 * Microsoft Research
 * National Institutes for Health
 * National Science Foundation
 * Open Society Institute
 * Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association
 * Ploughshares Fund
 * Rudin Foundation
 * Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust
 * Verizon Foundation
 * Charles Pankow Foundation

Books

 * Alice Kimball Smith, A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists Movement in America, 1945-1947 (University of Chicago Press, 1965).
 * Donald A. Strickland, Scientists in Politics: The Atomic Scientists Movement, 1945-1946 (Purdue University Press, 1968).

Contact
Federation of American Scientists 1725 DeSales Street NW, 6th floor Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202)546-3300 Fax: (202)675-1010 Email: fas AT fas.org Web: http://www.fas.org/

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 * George W. Rathjens - former chair
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