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Peace & Security

Rethinking Nuclear Weapons
Brief introduction
Ethical Questions
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Movie Poster: Nuclear Terrorism: Binding Horizons
Career Interview: Arpit Rajain, Research Officer, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
Career Interview: Vit Vanicek, Student, scholar, and author
Career Interview: Rian Leith, Lecturer, Contemporary History, Technikon of Pretoria and research assistant to the Dean, Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Pretoria
Career Interview: Gina van Schalkwyk, SADC Researcher, South African Institute of International Affairs

Nuclear Bunker Busters
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Career Interview: Theresa Hitchens, Vice President, Center for Defense Information (CDI), Washington DC, and Director of CDI's Space Security Project.
Career Interview: Cat Aue, associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Career Interview: Jack Spencer, senior policy analyst for defense and national security in the Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation
Career Interview: Dr. Charles Ferguson, Scientist-in-Residence, Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

Biology and Security
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Career Interview: Dr. Mark Smolinski, Senior Program Officer of Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Career Interview: Michael J. Powers, Senior Fellow at the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
Career Interview: Dr. Leslie Z. Benet, Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
Career Interview: Dr. Stephanie Loranger, Biology Issues Project Director, Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

Space and Security
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Career Interview: Mr. Masato Koyama, Director, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Career Interview: Mr. Bruce Gagnon, professional organizer, Global Network
Career Interview: Jack Spencer, Defense and National Security Senior Policy Analyst, Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation
Career Interview: Michael Heller, Research Assistant, The Henry L. Stimson Center

Academia's Biological Studies in Wartime
Brief introduction and report (1.31MB PDF)
Ethical Questions
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Suggested Articles
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Career Interview: Myrna E. Watanabe, freelance science writer and consultant
Career Interview: Dr. Luis Salicrup, International Health Science Officer, Fogarty International Center (FIC), National Institute of Health (NIH)
Career Interview: Dr. Charles E. McQueary, Under Secretary for Science and Technology (S&T), Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Career Interview: Dr. Richard F. Meyer, Laboratory Director of the Bioterrorism Rapid Response and Advanced Technology Lab, National Center for Infectious Diseases Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program
Career Interview: Dr. Ronald Atlas, President of the American Society for Microbiology, and Dean of the Graduate School and faculty at the University of Louisville

Outbreaks & Safety Concerns in Biodefense Research
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Career Interview: Dr. Ernie Takafuji, Assistant Director of Biodefense Research Affairs, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Career Interview: Patrick Stockton, Microbiologist, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Special Pathogens Branch
Career Interview: Eve Lyman, director of Boston Mobilization
Career Interview: Kyle Loring, legal fellow, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)
Career Interview: Mary Wulff, former, veteran law enforcement officer from Southern California
Career Interview: Ellen Berlin, Director of Corporate Communications, Boston University Medical Center

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Energy & Environment

Global Climate Change
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Career Interview: Clark Weaver, Atmospheric Scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Career Interview: Joshua Feldmark, Executive Director at The Center for Environmental Citizenship.
Career Interview: Myron Ebell oversees all global warming and international environmental work at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington, DC.
Career Interview: Richard C. J. Somerville is a professor of meteorology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Health

AIDS in Africa
Brief Introduction
Ethical Questions
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Career Interview: Eugene Russell, an applied physicist from Nimba, Liberia.
Career Interview: Benjamin Silverman, medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Articles & Suggested Reading:
AIDS Fund Falls Short of Goal and U.S. is Given Some Blame (72K PDF)
AIDS Is Not a Death Sentence (86K PDF)
Bush Offers Plan to Help Mothers Avoid Passing H.I.V. to Babies (86K PDF)
Clinton Urges Global Planning to Halt H.I.V. (92K PDF)
Congress Awakens to AIDS With a Convert's Zeal (116K PDF)
Former Presidents Urge Leadership on AIDS (91K PDF)
Health Aid for Poor Countries (60K PDF)
Helms Reverses Opposition to Help on AIDS (89K PDF)
In Quietly Courting Africa, White House Likes Dowry (119K PDF)
The Aid Debate: Helping Hand or Hardly Helping? (85K PDF)
The Global Fund Confronts AIDS (59K PDF)
The Truth About George Bush's Anti-AIDS push (79K PDF)
US HIV Groups Reach Beyond Borders (99K PDF)

Cloning
Brief Introduction
Ethical Questions
Event Ideas and Instant Event Ideas
Articles
Statistics
Career Interview: Elizabeth Marincola, Executive Director of the American Society for Cell Biology
Career Interview: Dr. Kent E. Vrana, Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Career Interview: Dr. Kelly Hollowell, scientist, patent attorney and adjunct professor of bioethics at the University of Richmond and Regent University Law Schools
Career Interview: Bernard Siegel, Executive Director of the Genetics Policy Institute

Genetics & Race
Brief Introduction and report (132K PDF)
Ethical Questions
Event Ideas and Instant Event Ideas
Articles
Statistics
Career Interview: Brent Myers, Biochemistry Section Supervisor and a forensic biologist in the Department of Serology at the West Virginia State Police Crime Laboratory and West Virginia's administrator of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
Career Interview: Sujatha Byravan, Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics
Career Interview: Dr. Lisa Brooks, scientist, Genetic Variation and Genome Informatics Programs, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
Career Interview: Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and former Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UCB, and Professor of Sociology at New York University

Stem Cell Research
Brief Introduction
Ethical Questions
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Articles
Statistics
Career Interview: R. Alta Charo, Elizabeth S. Wilson - Bascom Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and faculty member of the Law School and the Medical School's Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Career Interview: Baldwin Wong, Science Policy Program Analyst and Chief of the Science Policy and Planning Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Career Interview: Mr. George J. Annas, Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor, Boston University School of Medicine and School of Law.
Career Interview: Kevin T. FitzGerald, SJ, Dr. David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics, Georgetown University and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center

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Emerging Technology

Nanotechnology
Brief introduction
Ethical Questions
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Suggested Articles
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Career Interview: Charles Chung, graduate research assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology
Career Interview: Joshua Feldmark, Executive Director, Center for Environmental Citizenship
Career Interview: Dr. Eric Werwa, legislative assistant, Rep. Mike Honda, where he is responsible for nanotechnology legislation and policy
Career Interview: Chris Phoenix, Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)

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Science & Society

Civil Liberties in War Time
Brief introduction
Ethical Questions
Event Ideas
Statistics
Career Interview: Anonymous, paralegal, Criminal Section of the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division
Career Interview: Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Suggested Articles & Reading:
Suggested Reads: Civil Liberties in War Time (93K PDF)
Big Brother will be watching America: giant information matrix to track movements of potential terrorists (74K PDF)
Comment: How the USA Patriot Act will permit governmental infringement upon the privacy of Americans in the name of "intelligence" investigations (60K PDF)
Chipping Away at Liberty (62K PDF)
Court Surveillance Ruling Threatens Only Terrorists (64K PDF)
Fighting Terror by Terrifying U.S. Citizens (68K PDF)
ID Card Would Curb Fraud, Says Police Expert (56K PDF)
Two Views from Inside Intelligence Committee (114K PDF)
Internet Surveillance Law After the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother That Isn't (450K PDF)
Liberty Wins, So Far: Assessing the threats to Americans' Civil Liberties since 9/11, Jeffrey Rosen Finds that Constitution is Holding Up Rather Well (83K PDF)
New Tool in Terrorism Defended: U.S. says privacy will be protected (60K PDF)
Note: A Constitutional Crisis in the Digital Age: Why the FBI's "Carnivore" Does Not Defy the Fourth Amendment (138K PDF)
Your Papers Please: From the State Driver's License to a National Identification System (68K PDF)

Media's Role in the Public Perception of National Security
Brief introduction and report (113K PDF)
Ethical Questions
Event Ideas and Instant Event Ideas
Suggested Articles
Statistics
Career Interview: Paul Guinnessy, journalist, Physics Today magazine
Career Interview: Ashley Gauthier, Associate General Counsel, U.S. News & World Report
Career Interview: Jeffrey Boutwell, Executive Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Career Interview: Jordan Goldstein, Commissioner Michael J. Copps' of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), Senior Legal Advisor

Scientific Research Funding
Brief introduction
Ethical Questions
Event Ideas and Instant Event Ideas
Suggested Articles
Statistics
Career Interview: Kevin Conway, Deputy Branch Chief and Program Director, Epidemiology Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Career Interview: Theodore Poehler is Vice Provost for Research at The Johns Hopkins University
Career Interview: Anonymous, member of the House Committee on Science
Career Interview: Sheldon Krimsk, professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University

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Alumni

Pledge
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Publications

200 Employers You Can Live With: Introduction to Organization Profiles
On Interviewing
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, Issued in London, 9 July 1955
Preparing a Winning Job Application
Federal Government Jobs Related to Science and Technology


Speeches
"Science and Social Responsibility in the New Millennium" Sir Joseph Rotblat, founding member ofthe Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1995 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Science, Technology, and the State of the World: Some Reflections After September 11" Dr. John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"A Lifetime Committed to the Betterment of Society" Ruth Adams, former editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
"2003: Current International Security" Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Post-Hiroshima Campaigns by Scientists to Prevent the Future Use of Nuclear Weapons, by Sir Joseph Rotblat (61K PDF)

Links

Mind*fulls

Information Warfare - February 2001, vol. III, no. 6 (111K PDF)
Technology & Human Rights - February 2000, vol. III, no. 3 (247K PDF)
Women & Science - March 2000, vol. III, no. 4 (111K PDF)
Pledges, Oaths, & Scientists - October 2000, vol. III, no. 5 (125K PDF)
Science, Ethics, & Education - February 1999, vol. II, no. 9 (248K PDF)
Genetic Testing - October 1999, vol. III, no. 1 (252K PDF)
Terrorism & WMD - November 1999, vol. III, no. 2 (255K PDF)
War-Free World - May 1999, vol. II, no. 11 (255K PDF)
Communications Technologies - February 1998, vol. II, no. 4 (259K PDF)
Beyond Nuclear Weapons - March 1998, vol. II, no 5 (255K PDF)
Nuclear Energy - April 1998, vol. II, no. 6 (254K PDF)
Computers & Human Genetics - October 1998, vol. II, no 7 (254K PDF)
Energy and International Security - November 1998, vol. II, no. 8 (252K PDF)
Water Quality & Availability - February 1997, vol. I, no. 6 (256K PDF)
War & Disease - March 1997, vol. I, no. 7 (262K PDF)
Renewable Energy - April 1997, vol. I, no. 8 (267K PDF)
The Pugwash Conferences - September 1997, vol. II, no. 1 (252K PDF)
Exploring Human Genetics - October 1997, vol. II, no. 2 (258K PDF)
Science, Technology, & Culture - November 1997, vol. II, no. 3 (258K PDF)
International Weapons Trade - February 1996, vol. I, no.1 (261K PDF)
Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 1996, vol. I, no. 2 (249K PDF)
Access and the Internet - April 1996, vol. I, no. 3 (257K PDF)
The Public's Role in Science - September 1996, vol. I, no. 4 (257K PDF)
The Future of Nuclear Weapons - October 1996, vol. I, no. 5 (268K PDF)