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CRITICS OF the Reagan Administration's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) have long understood the impossibility of developing a be-all-end-all military technology. But not until this week has the Department of Defense (DOD) itself conceded that the President's "Star Wars" vision could become one of the world's more costly anachronisms before its development is even approved...
With the built-in obsolesence of the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative acknowledged by the DOD's own intelligence agency, the absurdity of Star Wars becomes increasingly obvious. Escalation of the arms race into space offers no viable solution to a world in search of a lasting peace. In the end, this nation will have to rely upon something more substantial than technology to remain leader of the free world...
...eavesdrop on conversation in a room by picking up the vibrations from the windowpane. The most insecure place to store information is probably a computer. A study by the Department of Defense Computer Security Center in Fort Meade, Md., concluded that only 30 out of about 17,000 DOD computers are even minimally secure against intrusion by clever hackers. Though no one has ever been caught doing it, the mere thought of Soviet intelligence plugging into Defense Department computers, particularly the ones that command the American nuclear arsenal, is the stuff of Hollywood chillers...
...such assessment has been in the form of weighing risks and benefits; what emerges from the Cambridge case is the real opposition between the night of a community to say "no" versus the right of a company with reasonable safety standards to conduct its own research. The inadequate DOD regulations, perhaps more military than medical in their safety concerns, avoid real responsibility for the public safety. ADL, though it spent $1 million on developing the super safe laboratory, cannot shoulder the responsibility for a community's welfare. Then who will...
...image of inhospitable communities knocking an unwanted company around like a ping pong ball leads some to propose a central authority for arbitration. No regulations of supertoxins now exist in the U.S. except through DOD contracts. Toxic chemical legislation such as the Massachussetts Hazardous Waste Managagement Act, and the policies of such agencies as the Deportment of Public Health, apply exclusively to industrial waste and spills--certainly not to chemical warfare agents...