Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test was necessary, the AEC maintained, to assure that the Spartan system would provide a "thin shield" defense against nuclear attack from the Chinese. Some scientists argued, however, that ABM policy and technology has left the Spartan system behind, and the AEC is testing a warhead that would never be used as designed...
Wiesner has been one of the foremost critics in scientific circles of Nixon's comprehensive anti-ballistic missile (ABM) program. He said Friday that he had written many letters to the President during the last three years and that most of them were critical of Nixon's policies...
...SENATE Bad Week for the Doves One after another, the amendments to limit military spending came up for a vote in the Senate, and time after time doves absorbed defeat. ABM deployment was approved by a resounding margin. The Navy's controversial new fighter-bomber was funded handily after an abortive attempt to block it. Money for a prototype Army tank that has provoked debate in the past was quickly assured...
...Chip. Particularly galling to the doves was the way in which they were beaten. Debate was truncated and desultory-and often played to a near-empty chamber and galleries. The margin of defeat was embarrassingly large on once bitterly contested issues such as anti-missile funding. In 1969 when ABM Safeguard deployment was first proposed, debate lasted one month and the doves came within one vote of victory; this year, the floor fight took just two hours and the vote, 64 to 21, was a resounding rebuff.* Administration spokesmen insisted that the ABM was an important "bargaining chip...
...Last week a report prepared by the Operations Research Society of America-a professional organization for systems analysts and researchers-criticized scientists involved in the ABM debate. The report was critical of research methods used by both sides, but the ABM opponents, specifically M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner and M.I.T. Professors George Rathjens and Steven Weinberg, drew the most censure for misusing scientific evidence...