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The Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group (STGS) is dedicated to making the world a safer and better place for humanity by providing independent and unbiased analyses of scientific and technical questions that affect world peace. These include, but are not limited to, understanding and explaining to the policy makers and the general public the technical issues underlying nuclear disarmament and proliferation. Another important goal of our group is to propose new solutions for technical problems that might stand in the way of nuclear disarmament or prevent the world’s nonproliferation regimes from being effectively implemented.

STGS has established itself as a highly regarded independent center for analysis of technical problems in the international security field. It has unrivaled expertise in nuclear weapons and their effects, sensor technologies, ballistic missiles, early warning systems, basing of nuclear forces, and nuclear fuel cycle issues and how these technical issues 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, in addition to the countries mentioned above.

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	A post-launch examination of the Unha-2 by David Wright and Theodore A. Postol [HTML] [PDF]
	US-Russian Team of Scientists Say Missile Shield Likely Ineffective. The Washington Post article [HTML] The EastWest Institute report [PDF] The report's technical addenda: Defense Against Iranian Ballistic Missiles [PDF] and Iran's Ballistic Missile Program [PDF]
	Geoff Forden gives a presentation on the dangers inherent to nuclear weapons at the 2009 Prepcom Meeting, United Nations Building, New York. [PDF]
	"Chinese Reform and US-Chinese Relations in the Age of Obama." For more information please click here.
	NEW! Executive Summary and Proceedings from the workshop on“Internationalizing Uranium Enrichment Facilities” held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 20 - 21, 2008.
	The Noam Chomsky interview. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Chomsky discusses the global politics of Iran's and India's attempts to become nuclear powers.
	Geoffrey Forden talks about Iran's Safir rocket launch on 17 August 2008
	Subrata Ghoshroy on the US-India Nuclear Deal. A PowerPoint presentation from the Think Outside the Bomb National Youth Conference on Nuclear Abolition, August 2008. Click here for ppt. presentation.
	A Boston Globe article and editorial featuring John Thomson and Geoffrey Forden.
	Stanley Foundation Publishes Multilateralism as a Dual-Use Technique: Encouraging Nuclear Energy and Avoiding Proliferation by John Thomson and Geoffrey Forden
	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.
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 Ploughshares Fund

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