We the undersigned members of the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory wish to express our personal concern over the threat posed by the growing militarization of space. We believe that the continued development and eventual deployment of advanced antisatellite weapons will prove harmful to our long-term national security interests. Likewise
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Declare an immediate moratorium on the development and testing of all space weapons, including antisatellite and ballistic missile defense systems.
Resume negotiations for a mutual and verifiable treaty banning the testing, production
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Reaffirm our commitment to the provisions of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
It is our hope that we may avert an unnecessary and costly new arms race
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Carl D. Anderson Professor of Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1936
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
William A. Fowler Professor of Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
Murray Gell-Mann Professor of Theoretical Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1969
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954
Nobel Peace Prize 1962
Roger W. Sperry Professor of Psychobiology Nobel Prize in Medicine 1981
(The statement is also signed by sixty-three members of the National Academy of Sciences who are associated with the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The signatures are “given by individuals, acting in their private capacities. Caltech and JPL affiliations are given for identification purposes only.”)
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