The Nation - News from May 21, 1986
Eighty scientists defended President Reagan’s “Star Wars” program against charges by other researchers that it cannot meet its goal of warding off enemy missile attacks. “Star Wars,” formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, “is not designed to cause a war in the heavens, as some charge, but to prevent nuclear war on Earth,” said a statement issued by the Science and Engineering Committee for a Secure World.
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