A generous, soft-spoken source of practical sense amid the Byzantine cacophony of the military industrial complex. Unquestionably an eager young participant in the headlong race of Cold War nuclear weapons development—more a Gyro Gearloose, perhaps, than a Mr. Peabody, though he could do both—he nonetheless recoiled from abject fantasies like Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” system and its descendants, because he knew they wouldn’t work. “Rest in peace” is an apropos wish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/science/richard-l-garwin-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/30/us/scientists-compare-star-wars-to-abm-debates.html
“no analysis before or since shows it to be feasible with anything we now know or imagine” September 1985, on Ronald Reagan’s 1983 “Star Wars” proposal
https://rlg.fas.org/850909-sdi.htm
Mike, Garwin’s H-bomb, 1952