Word: gayler
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...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 of the California Institute of Technology; and former NASA senior Space Wizard Christopher Kraft. The petition is part of a major campaign by U.S. scientists to head off an extension...
Finally, there is the recently publicized proposal of a former director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Noel Gayler: massive cuts in each side's arsenal without the distraction of classification and verifiability. Gayler suggests that each side simply junk an arbitrary number of warhead of its own choice--whether land-based missile warheads, bombs, or artillery shells--under the supervision of a special international commission. Each side would naturally turn in its most vulnerable weapons, retaining its best deterrent. After a few trial runs with tiny numbers of the uniquely identifiable commodities, larger amounts could be turned...
...protests against U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War a decade ago. But the new movement is far more broadly based; it includes more bishops than Berrigans, doctors and lawyers with impeccable Establishment credentials, archconservatives as well as diehard liberals, and such knowledgeable experts as retired Admiral Noel Gayler, former director of the supersecret National Security Agency, and former SALT II Negotiator Paul Warnke. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "Nuclear disarmament is going to become the central moral issue of the '80s, just as Viet...