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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
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Subject: Re: General research for/by the military (and SDI).
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 20:09:48 EST
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My own view in brief, of course, is that I personally wouldn't take
military funding for any kind of research, not knowingly anyway, but I
also think that the SDI idea is more than usually unfortunate for
various reasons specific to that proposal.  My reason for the more
general stand is rooted in religious belief, and I recognise that this
isn't something which can be 'proved' correct by purely rational
arguments.
(BTW, someone mentioned a lack of comment by laser physiciists, etc;
there has ben a whole series of articles in _Scientific American_ over
the last two years or so, discussing various aspects of defence policy
and related technologies.  October 84 has an article specifically
about SDI, for what it's worth.)
	with best wishes,  Julian Davies