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Started by John Roberts
Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:01
Re: "suicides" of SDI scientists
Author: John Roberts
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:01
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:01
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-From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) -Subject: ques about earlier "suicides" of SDI scientists -Date: 19 Jan 93 08:51:42 GMT -Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC -About five years ago, there were quite a few suicides by scientists in -Europe who were asociated with the US led "strategic defense initiative." -Quite a few of these seemed to be suspicious, and the gross numbers were -quite a bit higher than would be expected in a group of this size. -I haven't heard anything lately about this nor have I been able to track -down the results of any investigations. The only stuff I've found has -been news articles simply describing the venets. -Does anybody out there in greater NETLAND have any further info? Or can -you direct me to better sources? Since this corresponds extremely closely to the classic 1951 short story "Breeds there a Man...?", written by Isaac Asimov, and available in the collections "Nightfall and Other Stories" and "Nightfall One", I'd say there's a significant chance that you read either this story or a reference to this story, and now you remember it as an historical event. Or, maybe, [lowers voice to ominous tone] it...wasn't...just...a...story!!! [eerie music plays in background] :-) John Roberts roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
Re: "suicides" of SDI scientists
Author: Dave Michelson
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:42
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:42
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In article <C1DxM5.Ev.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes: > >...there's a significant chance that you read either this story or a reference >to this story, and now you remember it as an historical event. > >Or, maybe, [lowers voice to ominous tone] >it...wasn't...just...a...story!!! [eerie music plays in background] > > :-) In fact, it *was* an historical event. About four years ago(?), the media spent a great deal of time pondering a number of "suspicious" suicides of defence scientists working in Britain for companies like Marconi Space and Defence. It's even possible that "60 Minutes" ran a segment on the issue. Nothing was ever proven, though, and the media lost interest. As I recall, the suspicious nature of the deaths was raised by the victim's families who asked the media to investigate on their behalf. --- Dave Michelson University of British Columbia davem@ee.ubc.ca Antenna Laboratory
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