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Eyes on the BombU-2, CORONA, and KH-7 Imagery of Foreign Nuclear InstallationsNational Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 186

The final CORONA mission was launched on May 25, 1972. By that time another satellite program first authorized by President Eisenhower had achieved success. In 1960, Eisenhower had given the Air Force permission to go ahead with a program designated GAMBIT. Whereas CORONA was a search satellite whose mission was to produce photographs that showed thousands of square miles in a single photograph, GAMBIT was designed to photograph much narrower swaths of the earth (only about 120 square nautical miles) but with far greater resolution. The improved resolution would translate into an ability to produce better technical intelligence about military facilities, including nuclear facilities and weapons systems.

In July 1963, the first GAMBIT satellite was launched, carrying the KH-7 camera system.Including the final KH-7 mission in June 1967, the GAMBIT/KH-7 program successfully returned imagery on 34 of the 38 missions, which ranged in duration from one to eight days. Thirty missions returned usable imagery for analysis. The quality of resolution improved from about four feet for the initial missions to about two feet in 1966.

Lest på nett 1. juni 2025

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB186/index.htm

Leser at amerikanske universiteter kjemper for sine kjerneverdier... Som bruk av mennesker som forsøkskaniner og rasisme?

"In November 2014, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed a complaint against Harvard College in federal district court. SFFA claims that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans by holding them to higher admissions standards than any other racial group, including whites. Because Harvard is an institution that accepts federal funds, it “violates Title VI when it engages in racial or ethnic discrimination [prohibited by] the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” SFFA argues that Harvard’s race-based admissions program is impermissible under Supreme Court precedent. Beyond that, SFFA urges “the outright prohibition of racial preferences in university admissions — period.” Ironically, the allegedly discriminatory “Harvard Plan” is the very one that Justice Powell held up as a model in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and the admissions program that American universities have emulated for decades."

"A. The EvidenceAsian 

American groups have made similar types of arguments in past and current complaints alleging discriminatory admissions policies. Due to the inherent difficulty of proving racial discrimination, their arguments rely heavily on statistical evidence. Admissions data in the aggregate, they say, show that universities hold Asians to higher standards than all other groups. Doing so is the equivalent of applying race-based penalties to Asian applicants.

First, Asian Americans challenge the notion that they are overrepresented. The question of parity depends on the baseline for comparison: although Asians are overrepresented in relation to the general population, they tend to be the most underrepresented group when compared to the applicant pool. Studies show that Asians have the lowest acceptance rates of all racial groups."

Lest på nett 3. juni 2025

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-131/the-harvard-plan-that-failed-asian-americans/