Word: garwin
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...National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and his Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, state that a ban could make "a significant contribution to slowing nuclear proliferation." Proponents also argue that it would be to America's strategic advantage, since the Soviets are behind the U.S. in warhead sophistication. Says Richard Garwin, a nuclear expert with IBM: "Resuming testing will enable the Soviets to further miniaturize their warheads and put even more on their large MIRVed missiles...
...Pentagon has already signed 350 SDI-related contracts, and about 77% of the initial prime contracts have gone to areas represented by eight Congressmen and 14 Senators. "At this rate," says Richard Garwin, a critic of SDI and a noted IBM physicist, "the program will soon have such momentum that there'll be no stopping it, regardless of merit." Says former Chief Arms Control Negotiator Paul Warnke: "What's happening is the rapid conversion of the President's Star Wars proposal from stardust and moonbeams to the great pork barrel...
...scientists' petition was drafted by Astronomer Carl Sagan and Richard Garwin, military expert at IBM's Watson Research Center, even before Reagan's star wars speech in March, which called for accelerated research on defensive weapons, including those that could be based in space. After the President's address, more than a dozen people joined in the appeal. Among them: Hans Bethe and Isidor Rabi, winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics; Retired Admiral Noel Gayler, who was director of the National Security Agency from 1969 to 1972; Lee DuBridge, physicist and president emeritus...
...sound as Dense Pack may seem in the Pentagon's hard sell, many scientists believe it is fatally flawed. Says IBM Physicist Richard Garwin: "Fratricide may well be true, but it is irrelevant because it can be defeated." The Soviets, for example, could avoid Fratricide by dropping a single warhead at a time, beginning with the southern end of the Wyoming strip, at a rate of one every 20 to 40 sec. Strategists call such a barrage Slow Walk. The Pentagon says that the first detonations would leave so many particles in the atmosphere that the incoming warheads would...
...Garwin and Hamburg were out of town and could not be reached for comment...