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Panel member Charles Vest, president of M.I.T., has been accused by a colleague of being slow to investigate allegations of fraud at a lab that does missile-defense work for the Pentagon. Ted Postol, an M.I.T. professor of technology and national security, says Vest was told in 2001 about allegations that officials at the school's Lincoln Laboratory misled federal investigators about the failure of a key test of the U.S. missile-defense system--a top Bush priority. Postol claims that Vest "did not take action," even though he "knew there were potential criminal violations and scientific fraud." A spokesman...
...warhead kill." Under fire, Major General Jay Garner confirmed that the Army, in a revised study, was dropping its kill claims from more than 80% in Saudi Arabia to 70%, and from 50% in Israel to 40%. The Army's about-face represented a victory for M.I.T. professor Ted Postol, who triggered the inquiry by pointing out that even such nonexperts as careful cnn watchers could tell that some of the Patriots' alleged kills were clear misses...
...radar has a serious drawback: its signal is a blazing electronic beacon that can make the transmitter as much the hunted as the hunter. "Like a flashlight in a dark forest, radar can spotlight certain trees," says Theodore Postol, an electronics expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But everybody in the woods...
...could eventually play a role in formulating the nation's defense strategy. Already one U.S. Government defense study, prepared by the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education in Montgomery, Ala., has based its policy analyses on the assumption that the nuclear-winter theory is correct. Says Theodore Postol, a strategic-arms consultant at Stanford University: "I see this as a vehicle to raise questions about our whole nuclear strategy...