Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps millions of Americans in the event of nuclear war, plus an additional deterrent to enemy attack. Opponents of Sentinel, including Senator Edward Kennedy, answer that the Sentinel represents "false security" because it would only accelerate nuclear-arms competition. Some distinguished scientists, notably Hans Bethe, Ralph Lapp and Jerome Wiesner, argue that the system would not live up to its advance advertising. Previous attempts to develop ABMs have faltered on the theory that they would be obsolete by the time they were installed...
...Silence. One of the hardest to convince was Wernher von Braun. But when he was finally converted to the lunar-orbit-rendezvous technique, he became a formidable advocate. During a visit to Huntsville, President Kennedy stood in embarrassed silence while Von Braun argued heatedly with Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner, the last important holdout against LOR. Pressed for a final decision, Kennedy overruled Wiesner in October 1962 and gave NASA permission to proceed with the design and construction of a lunar module...
...official rationale for a thin system--defense against China--is highly contestable. China now possesses no intercontinental missiles capable of attacking the United States. Yet the military proposes to build a system that Jerome Wiesner, John Kennedy's Science Advisor, believes would be almost immediately obsolete, and which can never be realistically tested because of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. ABM proponents further assume that China might use her first long-range missiles even before developing simple decoy devices, already known to the American military, that can render Sentinels almost useless. As a response China could only expect obliteration...
...press conference on Saturday, Jerome B. Wiesner, M.I.T. provost, said, "I don't believe that any of the strong proponents really believe the Sentinel system is of any real value. I don't believe they would build them at all except as a small down payment on the big system...
There was a question earlier as to whether or not O'Conner could attend and perhaps lecture to regular classes at M.I.T. Jerome Wiesner, provost of M.I.T., said Wednesday that the AWOL soldier has "no official status at M.I.T.. He is not a lecturer and not a student. A professor who chooses to invite him to his classes does so on his own judgment...