Issues: Military Research at MIT

As the initial stage of research, news articles with relevance to MIT's past and present military research are listed below.

Star Wars will protect ICBMs, March 19, 1985
Faculty debates DOD funds, March 22, 1985
Issues suggested for commission, April 5, 1985
Weizenbaum examines computers abd society, April 9, 1985
Group will study research funding, April 12, 1985
Worried about finds commission, April 12, 1985
MIT discusses atom bomb, April 19, 1985
Troubled by committee, April 30, 1985
Military needs study, May 3, 1985
Dealing with other after MIT, May 3, 1985
MIT must divest its South African connections, May 14, 1985
Concern's over MIT's involvement in SDI, June 3, 1985
Faculty Approves New Regulations, June 3, 1985
Issues offer opportunities to make differences at MIT, September 3, 1985
Committee to examine SDI, October 8, 1985
Pledge against SDI has arrived at MIT, October 8, 1985
MIT lab performs Star Wars studies, October 22, 1985
Director defends SDI, October 25, 1985
Computer experts meet to debate SDI feasibility, October 25, 1985
Panelist discusses economics of SDI, November 22, 1985
SDIO funds research, November 5, 1985
Area citizens protest SDI, November 19, 1985
Bernard Feld on the responsibility of a scientist, November 19, 1985
Panelist discusses economics of SDI, November 22, 1985
No technological fix can exist against warheads, November 22, 1985
SDI research should not be given priority, December 6, 1985

Few faculty express concern over effects of military spending at MIT, January 23, 1986

Deutch says he will not be next president, January 24, 1989
Defense research funding clarified, January 24, 1989
Twenty years later, MIT still doing military research projects, February 24, 1989.
MIT research heavily dependent on defense department funding, February 28, 1989
National security requires military research, March 3, 1989
Gray discusses his decision to leave position, March 7, 1989
Students release report on MICAR, part 2, June 5, 1989
Military impact committee will finish its report in 1988-1989 academic year, June 27, 1989

FAC takes input on presidential search, January 10, 1990
Draper Announces Layoffs, January 24, 1990
Bush plan does not cut research, February 13, 1990
Sharp nomination reflects increaed humanitarian concerns at MIT, February 16, 1990
Fall of communism jeopardizes defense research, February 27, 1990
Deutch favors industry over students, March 2, 1990
Nuclear vigil must be maintained, September 14, 1990
Graduate Student Council does represent students' opinions (1), November 6, 1990

Sweetness, shame of creating the A-Bomb, October 2, 1991

Harkin Presents Four-Point Plan to Audience at Harvard University: 6: 6, January 31, 1992
Postol Questions Success in Gulf War, May 8, 1992
150 Layoffs Announced at Lincoln Lab, July 15, 1992

Bernard T. Feld, February 23, 1993
Clinton Unveils Program to Help Defense Industries Commercialize, March 12, 1993
MIT Experts Propose $21 Billion in Defense Cuts, March 16, 1993
Widnall Nomination Expected Soon, July 21, 1993
Widnall in Contemplation of Her New Role , August 25, 1993
Widnall Sworn In As Air Force Head, August 27, 1993

Deutch Nominated for Defense Department Number Two Spot, February 25, 1994
MIT Defends Scholar's Right to Publish, May 4, 1994
DOD Cut Threatens Research, July 20, 1994
Cuts in DOD Research Threaten US Preparedness, July 20, 1994
Jerome Wiesner, 13th President, Is Dead at 79, October 25, 1994

DoD funding cut threatens research; bodes ill for future, February 7, 1995
Study finds defense contractors adjust readily to changes, May 3, 1995
MIT Lincoln Laboratory opens new building, May 24, 1995
Tech Day speakers review World War II and MIT, June 21, 1995
Weld leads governors in making case to Congress, August 16, 1995
Tech Day, Including Fly-By, Honors MIT WWII Contributions, 1995

MS&E project aims to keep bullet-proofing up to date, January 31, 1996
Column Underrates Media Lab's Technological Goals, June 7, 1996
MIT Research Needs More Public Relations, October 22, 1996
Research Laboratory of Electronics marks 50th anniversary, October 30, 1996

Briggs is new director of Lincoln Laboratory, January 28, 1998

Exhibit chronicles the Institute's 1949 gathering of luminaries, June 9, 1999

Renowned nuclear physicist Feshbach, Institute Professor emeritus, dies at 83, January 10, 2001
Addicted To Strangelove, August 29, 2001
Firms join Air Force-MIT effort, November 7, 2001
Kreick elected chairman of Draper, November 7, 2001

Robotic helicopter goes on a 360-degree roll, February 13, 2002
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), March 13, 2002
Army selects MIT for $50 million institute to use nanomaterials to clothe, equip soldiers, March 15, 2002
MIT Wins $50 Million Grant From Army, March 15, 2002
IT fuels battle awareness, April 10, 2002
The MURJ-United Trauma Relief Connection, May 14, 2002
Terrorism protection is an engineering challenge, Branscomb says, October 2, 2002
Researchers tout opportunities in nanotech, October 9, 2002

ISN troops take basic training at Ft. Polk, February 12, 2003
Nano-tech, the next revolution, or just the same old dangerous mess, 2003
Rocket-launched photo system wins ISN contest, February 25, 2004
Soldier Design Prizes Awarded, February 20, 2004
Missile Review Still On, April 6, 2004
Fight the Good Fight, January 14, 2004
Explaining MIT's Graduate Drop, February 24, 2004
Losing Technological Restraint
GI Joe Goes Nano
Nanotechnology Film Wins Top Telly Animation Honors for DigiNovations and Boston Animation