The History of Terrorism
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1984-1991 The George C. Marshall institute was founded in 1984 by Frederick Seitz (former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences), Robert Jastrow (founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), and William Nierenberg (former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). The institute's primary aim, initially, was to play a role in defense policy debates, defending Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars"). In particular, it sought to defend SDI "from attack by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and in particular by the equally prominent physicists Hans Bethe, Richard Garwin, and astronomer Carl Sagan."[5] The institute argued that the Soviet Union was a military threat.[5] A 1987 article by Jastrow[6] argued that in five years the Soviet Union would be so powerful that it would be able to achieve world domination without firing a shot.[5] When the Cold War instead ended in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the institute shifted...
1984-2015 George C. Marshall Institute (GMI)
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