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Science 21 November 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5649, p. 1309
DOI: 10.1126/science.302.5649.1309c
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NATO's already slimmed-down science division is facing the prospect of further, crippling cuts. The $24 million Science Programme could see its 2004 budget slashed by up to 25%, Science has learned.

The program supports research grants, fellowships, and workshops linking scientists from NATO's 19 member countries with those elsewhere. It has won praise for working in flash points such as Central Asia, including mapping contamination at the Soviet Union's atom bomb test site (Science, 23 May, p. 1220). Even so, sources say that member states are intent on trimming NATO's civilian spending and that the science program could lose as much as $6 million. That could doom its fellowship program. Some savings may come from the research program's newly narrowed focus on antiterrorism and other security threats.

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