"The overriding reason for our boycott is that SDI will increase the chance of nuclear war and will offer only imaginary protection from its consequences. Space weapons would both threaten and invite a first strike. Possession of such space weapons by the United States and the Soviet Union would inexorably lead to nuclear war."
The Scientists Campaign Against the Strategic Defense Initiative has convinced many members of Congress and many concerned citizens that SDI is, in the words of Sheldon Glashow, one of the 21 Nobel laureates who have signed the pledge, "dumb, destabilizing and damned dangerous." Ninety-eight percent of the members of the National Academy of Sciences in fields relevant to SDI estimated that SDI could not provide an effective defense of the U.S. population if the Soviets try to overwhelm the defense.
The SDI was born in the inner circle of the Reagan White House. Retired Lt. Gen. ...
