Federation of American Scientists
Founded in 1945 by scientists involved in the Manhattan Project to create the atom bomb, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a nonprofit organization of mo...
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President Bush had just signed a bill ending a decade-old practice of classifying the amount the nation's spy agencies spend. A day later, some in Congress were again trying to make it secret.The r...
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The U.S. Strategic Command devised nuclear strike options
against countries seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction,
such as Iran, North Korea and Libya, after the Sept. 11, 2001 terro...
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Dec 11 (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least 67 people
in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a health ministry
source said, in the bloodiest attack since an undeclared civil
war in the 1...
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More than 1 million pages of historical government documents _ a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol _ have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to record...
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The U.S. government has been closely monitoring an alleged black
market led by one Chinese national, who has been subject to U.S.
sanctions at least six times since the late 1990s for exporti...
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The nation's spy court is moving from its longtime home at the Justice Department to a nearby federal courthouse, a move that some hope will assert the court's independence even as Congress shifts ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nobel prize winner James
Watson, renowned for describing DNA's structure, quit
Thursday as chancellor of a leading U.S. research facility
after being quoted as questioning A...
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