Category: National Academy of Sciences

What has happened to the National Academy of Sciences  – Part Two

Robert W. Endlich
INTRODUCTION
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In Part One, I described when, over a fifteen or so year period of my work assignments, I needed current knowledge of the toxicity of chemicals used in military applications. From 1976-1979, the chemicals were Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine, and Nitrogen Tetroxide, propellants for the Air Force Titan 2 Missile. Then, 1984-1994, the chemicals were Fluorine, Nitrogen Trifluoride, and Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) [actually its deuterated fluoride isotope cousin (DF)] for the Navy’s MIRACL laser at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR).  In those days my colleagues and I respected and trusted the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Toxicology, and by inference the National Academy itself.  For me, that period in my work history ended in 1994.

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My beginning of doubt into significant “human-caused, CO2-Fueled Global Warming” arose after James Hansen’s 23 Jun 1988 testimony to the Senate, Continue reading “What has happened to the National Academy of Sciences  – Part Two”

What has happened to the National Academy of Sciences – Part One

Robert W. Endlich

Part One: Operational Experience . . . When We Used NAS’s Data

INTRODUCTION

My work experience serves as a useful prelude to writing this post. I was a Weather Officer in the Air Force for 21 years, and soon after retiring from the Air Force, I became a Meteorologist working for the Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory, ASL, where my previous Air Force experience helped the mission at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

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One of my Air Force assignments was commander of the Weather Detachment at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, sometimes simply DM, on the southeast side of Tucson. I was assigned to Davis-Monthan from Sep 1976-Jul 1979, at the height of the Cold War. Though DM was a Tactical Air Command, TAC, Base, a major “tenant” organization there was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) unit, the 390th Strategic Missile Wing, equipped with 18 Titan 2 Inter-Continental Ballistic Continue reading “What has happened to the National Academy of Sciences – Part One”