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Dr. Edgar Mitchell Compiled by Carol Mersch
to terminate all living activity on the planet in one
spasmodic hour of nuclear exchange.”
– Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell
“Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ initiative to put orbiting weapons into space aroused the ire of many scientists, who realized, as did I, that weapons in space put a hair trigger on war, and more likely, a nuclear exchange. Such an orbiting device would virtually invite instant attack. Many scientists wrote letters and signed proclamations, but Reagan persisted.
“Carol Rosin worked as an assistant to Wernher von Braun, and before he died, he sent her to me to work on these issues. We did the research, and I wrote the first draft. Thirty-four publishers refused to publish it or even seriously consider it. Such was the power of the White House, which did not want it published.
“I was subject to harassment, tapped phones, and more, much like we experience with government Special Access Programs today.”
– Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell
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