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Several prominent physicists yesterday charged Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger "38 with delaying for political reasons the release of their report that reaches negative conclusions about some key components in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI...
...page report, which was prepared by a committee of 18 prominent physicists co-chaired by Gade University Professor and Nobel Laureate Nicolaas Bloembergen, examines each of the directed energy weapons proposed for use in SDI. The Reagan Administration has touted the "Star Wars" system as a shield against nuclear weapons...
...members of committee also said Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, who heads the SDI office, last week wrote a letter to Weinberger's office strongly urging. the report's release...
...part of a proposal that does not yet appear to us to be sufficiently clear. On the other hand, we do not want to ignore the technical aspects of this research, and we are encouraging French firms to work with, let's say, U.S. companies and the SDI organization in this field. We just have not signed any agreement on this point. We think an effort will inevitably develop, as it already has in the Soviet Union and as it will in the U.S., to reinforce ((antimissile)) protection, but we suggest that effort cannot be absolute. Since man has existed...
This sharp attack was typical of the controversy Sofaer has triggered by his attempt to reverse an almost universally held understanding of the 1972 ABM treaty so that the Reagan Administration would be able to test SDI components in space. It was not the first time he has come under fire. In nearly two years as the top legal adviser to Shultz, Sofaer has offered a series of aggressive can-do opinions on a range of foreign policy issues. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden calls Sofaer's work an "unconscionable politicization of the office...