The Nation - News from Oct. 6, 1985
Nearly half of Cornell University’s science, engineering and computer science professors have decided not to take part in research on the Reagan Administration’s “Star Wars” program. Valerie Thomas, spokesman for the activist November 11th Committee, said that among the 128 of 258 faculty members who pledged not to do the research are Hans Bethe, a Nobel Prize winner, and Carl Sagan, the astronomer.
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