[Fedora]

Thanks. I will keep my eye open for that in the future when I read things about SDI. It interests me for a number of reasons, the one probably most directly related to the thread being that I'm wondering if any of the Russian scientists/spies involved in bioweapons research in the 1990s had penetrated SDI in the 1980s. It also reminds me that Edward Teller had a lot of enemies in the scientific community back then; I'm speculating that some of them may have gone over to the Soviet side out of "pacificistic" opposition to SDI, much as Bohr and Oppenheimer did in the 1940s when they short-sightedly thought they would deter world war by bringing the Russians into the a/h-bomb programs (cf. Edward Teller: "In 1953 Teller was appointed as professor at the University of California. The following year Teller was a key witness against his colleague, Robert Oppenheimer, who was considered a security risk because he objected to the development of the hydrogen bomb."). I remember quite a bit of the early literature on SDI demonized Teller by citing scientific colleagues who were opposed to his recommendations on SDI and related areas; as I'm thinking about what you're saying I'm now wanting to go back and see who the scientists opposed to Teller were and who they knew. Also, I'm recalling a discussion I had with a friend who used to teach nuclear physics at the CERN in Europe, and as were discussing the WMD controversy I noticed in one article that Iraq had managed to place a scientist in one of the European nuclear research centers--I think the CERN but I'm not sure without checking.

[piasa]

You probably won't have to look too far- as usual the Federation of American Scientists was leading the charge against pro-SDI individuals. One book which might cover some of the key players is one simply called "High Frontier," I believe it was put out by TOR books.