华盛顿专电 今年五、六月间,八千多名美国科学家和工程技术人员,包括十多名诺贝尔奖金获得者,联名上书国会,反对美国总统里根三年前提出的“星球大战”计划。他们指出,这项计划“促使核军备竞赛升级”,“在可预见的未来并不是可行的”,并保证决不参加这项计划的研究工作。 最近,这项不得人心的计划,又遭到了一次沉重的打击。它的主要组成部分之一的核X—射线激光的发明人彼得·哈格尔斯坦毅然离开劳伦斯·利弗莫尔国家实验室,回到了他的母校麻省理工学院任教,不再参与违背人民意愿的武器研制工作,用实际行动表现了科学家的高尚情操。 “星球大战”计划中的核X—射线激光,是继原 In August and June this year, more than 8,000 U.S. scientists and engineers, including more than a dozen Nobel laureates, petitioned the parliament to oppose the “Star Wars” plan put forth by U.S. President Reagan three years ago. They pointed out that this plan “to promote the nuclear arms race” is “not feasible in the foreseeable future” and pledges not to participate in the research work of this plan. Recently, this unpopular plan has suffered another heavy blow. Peter Hagelstein, the inventor of nuclear X-ray lasers, one of its main components, resolutely left Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and returned to his alma mater to teach at MIT, no longer participating in a violation of the people Willingness to develop weapons, with actual action of the noble performance of scientists. The nuclear X-ray laser in the “Star Wars” program is following the original