OPINION
February 17, 1985
It gets harder each day for the President to keep the real world from intruding on his dream of a shield against Soviet missiles, and his dream from intruding on the real world. It could get worse. Ronald Reagan seemed to promise the nation in March, 1983, that its scientists would figure out ways to raise a high-tech umbrella over the country so sturdy that nuclear weapons would bounce off it.
NEWS
December 1, 1988
Former astronaut Sally Ride may be the next big name to quit the nation's top arms control center, putting pressure on Stanford University to change its policy on professorial appointments. Ride has refused all requests for interviews since joining the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control last year. But she did give a colleague, nuclear scientist Theodore Postol, permission to talk on her behalf.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 26, 1990
In the year 1862, a trying--indeed a traumatic--time for our country, President Abraham Lincoln entreated the American people to "think anew and act anew." In his Op-Ed piece (Feb. 15) "Let Both Nations Share the Peace-Dividend Pie," Sidney Drell does precisely the same: He calls upon us to deal in hardheaded ways with new realities rather than remain trapped in softheaded patterns of thought and action that are no longer relevant. The essence of what he proposes boils down to mutually advantageous economic collaboration as replacement for the mutually counterproductive military competition (a race for "superiority" neither side could ever win)
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 23, 1993
In a Campus Correspondence column (Opinion, Jan. 10), Stanford senior Heather Willens discusses the excessive fraction of the nation's research and development budget that is spent for defense-related research. While I agree that this fraction is indeed too high, I must correct her misapprehension about the nature of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. I, and many others on the staff, would not choose to work here if indeed it were a laboratory devoted to defense-oriented nuclear research.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 29, 1988
Physicist Sidney Drell is not the only teacher at Stanford University with a passionate commitment to sharing knowledge he regards as important to the world. But he is the only one who has resigned because the Stanford bureaucracy could not find a way to give professors in arms control the same sort of academic standing that they could get, say, in history or law.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 21, 1986
The world's most famous political prisoner is 65 years old today. For Andrei D. Sakharov--physicist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human-rights activist--this anniversary also marks a poignant and infamous milestone: One-tenth of Sakharov's life has now been spent in internal exile, under house arrest. Other prisoners in the Soviet Union have suffered far worse physical punishment.