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...ways of dealing with dissent, but removing Federal support for universities will not change that situation at all. More important, I am not aware that Yale has suffered for the actions of William Sloan Coffin, or Harvard or M.I.T. for the anti-ABM views of Abram Chayes or Jerome Wiesner. Neither am I aware that any university suffered because its students and faculty were active in the Dump Johnson movement or anti-Vietnam war activities...
...most impressive battery of expert arguments brought together since the debate began appeared in modest lithograph form. It was a 340-page report by 16 scientists and other experts organized last February by Senator Edward Kennedy, a leader of the ABM critics. Jointly edited by M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner and Harvard Law Professor Abram Chayes, the study included a paper by a Nobel laureate, Physicist Hans Bethe, as well as contributions by Arthur Goldberg, Theodore Sorensen, Bill Moyers and other veterans of service in high places. As expected, since Kennedy commissioned the review, the report contained few kind words...
...Wiesner, who was President John Kennedy's science adviser, flatly denies that thesis. Utilizing the same basic data that went into Laird's projection, he sketched five scenarios of possible Russian attacks some time between 1975 and 1980. Depending on the situation, the U.S. would still retain a very powerful nuclear counterpunch by Wiesner's calculations: between 2,500 and 7,500 deliverable nuclear weapons. The launching of only a few hundred warheads would be necessary to devastate the Soviet Union...
...Kennedy-Wiesner-Chayes report brought an immediate reply from John Foster Jr., the Pentagon's Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Another response came in the form of a 60-page monograph published by a subcommittee of the conservative American Security Council. The A.S.C. subcommittee included not one but two Nobel laureates, Chemist Willard Libby and Physicist Eugene Wigner, an assortment of prominent academics, retired generals and admirals, and Edward Teller, one of the world's most eminent weapons physicists...
Crucial Issue. Foster accused the Kennedy report of inconsistencies, overstatements, understatements and contradictions (it did, in fact, misspell Wiesner's name twice), claiming that it presents "incompetent, dangerous and inadequate alternatives" to Safeguard. One of the points often made by Safeguard's opponents is that the system would require so quick a decision to be activated in time of national danger that the President might be excluded from the process. Bill Moyers raised the fear of a President's "surrendering his decision-making authority to the computers and the junior military officers who stand over them." Foster...