Word: abrahamson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of committee also said Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, who heads the SDI office, last week wrote a letter to Weinberger's office strongly urging. the report's release...
Committee members had been given unprecedentedaccess to classified documents in the 18 monthsthey spent researching the directed energyweapons, such as lasers, proposed for use in SDI.As part of their agreement with Abrahamson, whoallowed them to examine the classified material,the physicists agreed to submit the report forreview...
...vehicle launched on a Delta rocket tracked and targeted another rocket and then maneuvered to collide with a satellite. The demonstration, however, was somewhat rigged: the rocket orbits were preprogrammed, and a reflector on the target rocket magnified its image 1,000 times. Nevertheless, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, SDI's director, argues that the $150 million demonstration proved it is feasible for a smart rock to locate a missile shrouded in its own exhaust plume and track other objects in space. Although he says Delta 180 fell within the strict ABM guidelines, SDI supporters argue that the broad...
...highest-ranking, most authoritative people on the subject." During a day that started at 7:45 a.m. and continued to 9 p.m., 30 TIME editors, writers, correspondents and reporter-researchers assembled in Washington to hear -- on the record -- a nonstop list of speakers, including SDI Director Lieut. General James Abrahamson of the Air Force, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, and Paul Nitze, the Administration's special adviser on arms control. Prominent scientific and strategic critics of the concept spoke as well. As Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who was instrumental in planning the gathering, noted, "Our object...
Conversely, top officials should take the initiative to raise questions orally and directly, rather than sending paper inquiries down through the ranks. Oldtimers at NASA yearn for a return to the days when Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, now Reagan's director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, ran the shuttle program. When he sensed a problem, he awaited no "criticality" rating; he barged into the office of even the lowliest technician to ask how to fix it. Perhaps unfairly, one commissioner insists that "Abe was replaced by wimps...