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The Science Committee at 45

The NATO Science Committee marked its 45th anniversary year with a celebration dinner on 23rd October, to coincide with its autumn meetings which took place on 22-24 October. At the first meeting of the Science Committee in March 1958 representatives from thirteen of the fifteen NATO countries met and mapped out the contours of a programme that was eventually acknowledged by the scientific community to be an indicator of scientific excellence, and which proved to be adaptable and resilient in the face of many changes that could not have been foreseen.

Representatives from 46 countries - members of the Science Committee in Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council format - were at this 45th anniversary meeting, and ushered in a new era of change, as the Committee adapts its programmes once more, as outlined in this Newsletter, to meet the new challenges of the coming decades.