Word: wiesner
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Even with inspection, disarmament would be risky. According to President Kennedy's scientific adviser, Jerome B. Wiesner, the best that can be achieved is a combination of inspection techniques that would produce an "adequate likelihood" of detecting violations. For example, even if ironclad controls were accepted by each nation - inspection of such things as plant output records, manpower, ore supply and electricity consumption - could anyone be sure a would-be cheater had not hidden a stockpile of undeclared H-bombs? Even with all this data, experts estimate they might miscalculate a nation's supply to the extent...
...third powerful influence on space policy will be the President's Science Advisor, Jerome B. Wiesner, but just where that influence will be exerted is not at all clear. The report of the task force which he headed urged the strengthening of big booster projects, manned space flight, and commercial applications of space technology. But it also heavily emphasized the military aspects of the space program...
...discounted, but one day before the shot, U.S. intelligence sent an urgent alert. Although the Vostok was launched at 1:07 a.m. Washington time, and the first Russian radio announcement was delayed until 2 a.m., it was only 1:30 a.m. when the Pentagon told Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner that a big Russian bird was aloft...
...sharply curtailed. The chiefs gave their opinions, and General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was kept constantly informed, but the creative reshaping came from civilians in the Pentagon and such outside experts as Harvard Professor Henry (The Necessity for Choice) Kissinger. White House Special Assistants Jerry Wiesner and McGeorge Bundy. Secretary of State Rusk and others...
...Jerome Wiesner, famed director of M.I.T.'s Research Laboratory for Electronics, is now President Kennedy's chief scientific adviser. M.I.T. Corp. Chairman James R. Killian Jr. was President Eisenhower's top science adviser from 1957 to 1959. M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton (1930-48) and M.I.T.'s Vannevar Bush were top scientific advisers to Roosevelt during World...