The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 scientists and citizens that works to promote environmental and global security solutions based on sound science. UCS scientists, engineers, and analysts collaborate with colleagues across the country to conduct technical studies on renewable energy options, cleaner cars and trucks, the impacts of and solutions to global warming, the risks of genetically engineered crops, deforestation, invasive species, nuclear power plant safety, missile defense, the security of nuclear material, and other issues. Research results are shared with policy makers, the news media, and the public in order to shape public policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

Founding and Finances

UCS was founded in 1969 out of a movement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where an ad hoc group of faculty and students joined together to protest the misuse of science and...