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Selected Publications

Forden, Geoffrey, Avoiding Accidental Nuclear War in South Asia: Globally Shared Missile Launch Surveillance, India Strategic, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 26-28

Forden, Geoffrey and Thomson, John, Multinational Nuclear Facilities May Solve Iranian Nuclear Stalemat, Janes Intelligence Review, April 2006, pp. 32-34

Forden, Geoffrey and Thomson, John, A Shared Solution to the Iran Nuclear Stand-off, Financial Times, p. 13, 20 February 2006

Macfarlane, Allison and Ewing, Rodney, editors, Uncertainty Underground: YuccaMountain and the Nations High-Level Nuclear Waste, Policy and Scientific Issues. (forthcoming, 2006, MIT Press)

Miller, Marvin and Scheinman, Lawrence, “Israel and the Prospects for a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East” in Halting Nuclear Proliferation the 21st Century, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), (to be published in 2006)

Macfarlane, Allison, All Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Not Equal, In John Tirman, editor, Audit of Conventional Wisdom Working Papers, Center for International Studies, MIT.  Fall 2005.

Macfarlane, Allison, Don’t Put Nuclear Waste on Military Bases, op-ed, Boston Globe, June 2005.

Forden, Geoffrey, US Nuclear Deterrent is Secure Despite Doubts Cast on Warhead, Jane’s Intelligence Review. July 2005, pp. 36-37.

Forden, Geoffrey Avoiding Enrichment: Using Financial Tools to Prevent Another Khan Network, Arms Control Today, June 2005, pp. 14-19.

Gronlund, Lisbeth, “Fire, aim, ready,” A Review of "Missile Defense: The Current Debate," Congressional Research Service (March 23, 2005) and "Findings and Recommendations," Independent Review Team (March 31, 2005), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 61, September/October 2005, pp. 67-8.

Wright, David, Grego, Laura, and Gronlund, Lisbeth “The Physics of Space Security: A Reference Manual,”(Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005).

Grego, Laura and Wright, David “Space: The Military’s Final Frontier,” Catalyst 4 (1), Spring 2005, p. 6.

Grego, Laura, Gronlund, Lisbeth, and Wright, David, “Fact, not Fiction, Should Inform U.S. Space Policy,” Op-ed, Topeka Capital-Journal (and other papers; circulated by Minuteman Media), 3 June 2005.

Gilinsky, Victor, Miller, Marvin, and Hubbard, Harmon, “A Fresh Examination of the Proliferation Dangers of Light Water Reactors”, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center,Washington, DC, September 2004.     

Ghoshroy, Subrata,“Ensuring America’s Space Security”, Editor, TheFederation of American Scientists, Washington, DC, (October 2004).

Forden, Geoffrey The Military Capabilities and Implications of China’s Indigenous Satellite-based Navigation System, Science and Global Security, Vol. 12, no. 3, 2004, pp. 219-250.

Forden, Geoffrey China’s Satellite-Based Navigation System: Implications for Conventional and Strategic Forces, Breakthroughs, Vol. XIII, no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 8-13.

Forden, Geoffrey Saddam’s Frenetic Final Month, Precis, Spring 2004, Vol. XIII, no. 2, pp. 6-8.

Forden, Geoffrey Intention to Deceive: Iraqi Misdirection of UN Inspectors, Jane’s Intelligence Review, March 2004, pp. 30-39.

Forden, Geoffrey with Theodore Postol: Foiling Aircraft Attacks Isn’t Rocket Science, Op-Ed in the Boston Globe, 7 January 2004, p A-15.

Forden, Geoffrey Anti-Satellite Weapons, Technical Appendix B, Ensuring America’s Space Security: Report of the FAS Panel on Weapons in Space, (Federation of American Scientists, October 2004)

Forden, Geoffrey Protecting Us without Tainting the Constitution, Op-Ed in the Boston Globe, 17 July 2004.

Wright, David, “The Capabilities of North Korean Ballistic Missiles,” in Ensuring America’s Space Security, Federation of American Scientists’ Panel on Weapons in Space (October 2004), pp. 132-140.

Gronlund, Lisbeth, Wright, David, Lewis, George, and Coyle, Philip, Technical Realities: An Analysis of the 2004 Deployment of a U.S. National Missile Defense System, (Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2004).

Gronlund, Lisbeth and Wright, David, “Mission Impossible,” Catalyst 3 (1), Spring 2004, p.9.

Wright, David and Gronlund, Lisbeth, Letter to the Editor, Washington Times, “Interceptors Seeking Evidence,” 5 June 2004, p. B2.

Miller, Marvin and Scheinman, Lawrence “Israel, India, and Pakistan:  Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Nonproliferation Regime”, Arms Control Today, December 2003, pp. 15–20.

Ghoshroy, Subrata “The Doomsday Clock is ticking”, the Statesman, India, special Festival issue, September 2003.

Ghoshroy, Subrata “Race for Space”, the Statesman, India, June 11, 2003.
“Reorganization of the Missile Defense Agency and its Impact on Oversight”, Arms Control Today (accepted for publication), June 2003.

Macfarlane, Allison (2003) Is the Yucca Nuke Dump All Wet? Technology Review Online, October 22, 2003, http://www.technologyreview.com.

Macfarlane, Allison (2003) Will Nuclear Energy Drive the Twenty-first Century?  In Andrew Heintzman, editor, Fueling the Future, Toronto: Anansi Press.

Macfarlane, Allison (2003), Underlying Yucca Mountain: The Interplay of Geology and Policy in Nuclear Waste Disposal, Social Studies of Science, 33/5, 783-807.

Macfarlane, Allison (2003) Senate Testimony: Statement of Allison Macfarlane Of the Security Studies Program, MIT, Before the Senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, In Las Vegas, Nevada, May 28, 2003.

R. Alvarez, J. Beyea, K. Janberg, J. Kang, E. Lyman, A. Macfarlane, G. Thompson, and F. von Hippel, (2003) Response by the Authors to the NRC Review of Reducing the hazards from stored spent power reactor fuel in the United States Science and Global Security, 11, 213-223.

R. Alvarez, J. Beyea, K. Janberg, J. Kang, E. Lyman, A. Macfarlane, G. Thompson, and F. von Hippel, (2003) Reducing the hazards from stored spent power reactor fuel in the United States, Science and Global Security, 11, 1-51.

Wright, David and Grego, Laura “The ASAT Capabilities of Near-Term Missile Defense Systems,” Disarmament Diplomacy, December 2002-January 2003.

Gronlund, Lisbeth and Lyman, Ed Letter to the Editor, New York Times, “Halting the Spread of Nuclear Arms,” 28 December 2003, p. 8. Subrata Ghoshroy “Review of Allegations about an Early National Missile Defense Flight Test”, Technical Advisor, GAO Report No. GAO-02-125, February 2002.

Kang, J., von Hippel, F.N., Macfarlane, A., and Nelson, R. (2002) Storage MOX: A third way for plutonium disposal? Science and Global Security, 10, No. 2, 85-101.

Ghoshroy, Subrata, (2003) The Doomsday Clock is Ticking The Statesman Festival, 136-140


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