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...event, said Astronomer Carl Sagan, "is filled with symbolism. Lots of things have entered the solar system during its 5 billion-year history-comets, asteroids, every sort of cosmic debris. This is the first time, however, that something associated with life and intelligence has left...
...Government; Paul Doty, director of the Center for Science and International Affairs; Stanley Hoffmann, chairman of the Center for European Studies; Samuel Huntington, former coordinator of planning for the National Security Council; Joseph Nye, former deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology; Scott Sagan, Ph.D. candidate in government, who was the project's staff director...
...done better at telling that story in recent years than Gould. At 41, in lectures and writings, on television and even in the courtroom, this gifted Harvard scholar has managed to turn a musty, bone-littered, backbiting discipline into the most exciting of sciences. Like his friend Carl Sagan, he has become a superstar of science. "Only Carl," Gould insists, "cuts a better figure on the tube...
...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...
FIRST OF ALL, the six members of the study group--professors Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Samael P. Hantington and Josheph S. Nye Jr, and graduate student Scott D. Sagan--tick off their views (and occasionally their differences) on any number of timely strategic issues. Most notably, they back the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe, oppose a blanket "no first use" policy, and split on the construction of the MX missile. They also urge a partial nuclear freeze, oppose the B-1 bomber, and expose developing anti-ballistic weapons that could violate the 1972 SALTI accord...