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Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California, whose Linear Accelerator Center physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky served on the expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion.

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Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California. Its Linear Accelerator Center was home to Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, a physicist who was a key colleague of Jack P. Ruina on an ad hoc panel of distinguished scientists tasked with studying the VELA Satellite data related to a probable nuclear explosion in the South Indian Ocean in 1979.1

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  • Garry Nolan, Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine14
  • Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanley Morrison Professor; director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies1
  • Rob Reich, from 1998, assistant professor from 1998; professor of political science from 2015; McGregor-Girand Professor of Social Ethics of Science and Technology from 20231
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  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 20. ↩

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