Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group

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), led by Professor Ted Postol 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. They 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.