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Over the past decade and a half the Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group (formerly known as the Security Studies Program's Technical Working Group) at MIT has established itself as the world's leading independent center for analysis of technical problems in the international security field.  The Group has unrivaled expertise in nuclear weapons and their effects, sensor technologies, ballistic missiles, early warning systems, basing of nuclear forces, nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel cycle issues and how these technical matters shape the political, military and diplomatic dimensions of security.  We have ongoing collaborations with technical groups and leading scholars in China, Russia, Germany, India, Israel and Pakistan -- and also have extensive governmental and non-governmental contacts with individuals and organizations in the UK, France, and Norway.

The Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group (STGS) believes that public policy is best influenced by sound, non-partisan analyses of the technical issues important to today’s security problems. STGS produces and encourages such analysis by conducting research on a number of specialized topics and by helping to build an international community of scientific scholars focused on this work.

Feature:
	Stanley Foundation Publishes Multilateralism as a Dual-Use Technique: Encouraging Nuclear Energy and Avoiding Proliferation by John Thomson and Geoffrey Forden
	Talk on Nuclear Abolition!
	A Preliminary Analysis of the Proposed USA-193 Shoot-down
	Ted Postol on U.S., Russia at Odds over Increasingly Unpopular White House Plans for Missile System in Eastern Europe
	Iran’s Heavy Water Production Plant in Operation
	The Iranian nuclear crisis: a risk assessment. Sir John Thomson, former UK ambassador to the UN, argues that the West is staking everything on an outcome - the permanent or at least indefinite suspension of enrichment by Iran - which the Iranians see as contrary to their national interest and are determined to resist. He discusses three options for breaking the impasse: Mothballing, pilot plant and multilateral enrichment. 9 March 2007. British American Security Information Council
	Analysis of the Chinese Anti-Satellite Weapon Test. Click here to download a copy of a technical analysis of the recent test by Geoffrey Forden.
	Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste. Macfarlane, Allison M. and Rodney C. Ewing, eds.Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, April 2006. ISBN: 0-262-63332-9 Document Length: 416 pp. Ordering Information for this publication
GAO Government Accountability Office	Subrata Ghoshroy, STGS Research Associate, takes a stand on accountability in government. Click here to read his 41 page letter to Congressman Howard Berman. Click here for additional information.

Funding for our research is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The Ploughshares Fund.

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