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...vigorously to push it. McFarlane urged a go-slow approach, but Reagan's political advisers wanted the President to express a large, fresh idea in his next defense policy speech. Thus the President unveiled Star Wars in a televised address on March 23. Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth II, excluded from the loop until five days before the speech, now talks with relish about the bureaucracy's "surprise, if not shock, at this demonstration of top-down leadership...
...microchip and other crucial technology. A report by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment declared the prospect of an effective missile & defense "so remote that it should not serve as the basis for public expectations or national policy." But the concept does have its well-placed supporters, including George Keyworth, the President's science adviser, and Robert Jastrow, founder of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City...
...extremely negative report warning that a comprehensive antiballistic-missile system was so unpromising "that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy." At the same time, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subjected five Administration witnesses, including the President's science adviser, George Keyworth, and the newly designated director of the program, Lieut. General James Abrahamson, to withering skepticism. Among the doubters were moderates like John Glenn as well as liberals like Massachusetts Democrat Paul Tsongas...
...first report--released on June 24--was prepared by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Presidential Science Advisor George Keyworth II Concluded the committee. "If we take the conservative point of view that we must wait until scientific knowledge is definite, the accumulated deposition [of acid rain] and damaged environment may reach the point of 'irreversibility." The recommendation: "Steps should be taken now which will result in meaningful reductions in the emissions of sulfur compounds into the atmosphere, beginning with those steps which are most cost-effective in reducing total [acid rain] deposition...
...Keyworth objected to the press's use of the phrase Star Wars to describe what he called the President's new defensive concept. Admitting "the American people are not likely to enthusiastically support the placement of nuclear weapons in space," he urged the assembled scientists to start thinking instead about ways to get their share of the huge research-and-development money involved in putting laser beams in space. In Los Alamos, weapons are bread and butter...