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 more than 2,000 scientists, engineers, and other citizens dedicated to the responsible...

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS)[1] is a non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project who felt that scientists, engineers and other innovators had an ethical obligation to bring their knowledge and...

Geoffrey Frohnsdorff, 78, a scientist and administrator at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, died of esophageal cancer March 5 at a nursing home in Potomac. As chief of the institute's Building Materials Division, Dr. Frohnsdorff oversaw research on the durability of...

Carl R. Johnson, 78, formerly of Leesburg, Va., died Wednesday at Willow Valley Manor North, 650 Willow Valley Square, after a long illness. Johnson, known to his friends as "Dean," was a federal government scientist for 40 years. He first worked at the...

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 requirement that the president disclose the intelligence total was a provision of...

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 records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than...