Nuclear Energy Handbook
FAS: Federation of American Scientists
external URL: http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp
| FAS (Federation of American Scientists) is a privately-funded non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes half of America's living Nobel Laureates. Founded as the Federation of Atomic Scientists in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project who produced the first atomic bomb, to address the implications and dangers of the nuclear age. The present FAS conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. |
- global security, arms control, nuclear non-proliferation
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| URL: | http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp
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| language: | English
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| originator: | professional or learned society
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| country: | USA
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| access: | open to the general public
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| type of data: | textual information
| graphical data or images
| online journals, articles, reports
| URLs, mail addresses or dates
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| type of site: | non-commercial site
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| related sites: | The High Energy Weapons Archive
| Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Project
| Project on Government Secrecy
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| primary subject category: | non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations
| professional organizations (science & engineering)
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| secondary subject category: | health and safety aspects
| non-proliferation of nuclear weapons / nuclear disarmament
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| INIS/ETDE category: | nuclear disarmament, safeguards and physical protection
| radiation, thermal, and other pollutant effects on living organisms and biological materials
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| keywords: | nuclear weapons / nuclear disarmament / non-proliferation
| health and safety
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