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Steven Aftergood (born 1956 in Los Angeles) is a specialist in physics and a political activist. He is a critic of U.S. government secrecy, generally favoring more openness. He directs the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy and is the author of the Federation blog/newsletter ''Secrecy News''. ==Life and career== Aftergood has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (1977) and has published research in solid-state physics. He joined the FAS staff in 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Federation of American Scientists )〕 He spent years advocating against an operating research nuclear reactor at UCLA with the Committee to Bridge the Gap. Public protests led to its shut-down.〔(UCLA Reactor Dismantled, Carted Away Bit by Bit ), Robina Luther, United Press International via the Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1988 (retrieved on September 27, 2012)〕 In 1991, Aftergood exposed the highly classified Project Timberwind, an unacknowledged U.S. Department of Defense special access program to develop a nuclear thermal rocket. In 1997 he was the plaintiff in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency which led to the declassification and publication of the U.S. government's total intelligence budget ($26.6 billion in 1997) for the first time in fifty years.〔(FAS Wins Lawsuit Against CIA on Intelligence Budget Disclosure ), CIA Statement, 15 Oct. 1997.〕 In 2006, Aftergood won a FOIA lawsuit against the National Reconnaissance Office to release unclassified budget records.〔(National Reconnaissance Office Yields to FAS Lawsuit ), von Steven Aftergood, 21 Dec. 2006.〕 In 2009, his article "Reducing Government Secrecy: Finding What Works" appeared in the ''Yale Law & Policy Review''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Aftergood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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