Theodore A. Postol

Theodore A. Postol (* 1946 ) is an American physicist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Postol is a prominent critic of official government statements about the effectiveness of American missile defense . He also considers the official view of the poison gas attacks in Syria to be unreliable.

Life

Postol worked at the Argonne National Laboratory , the Office of Technology Assessment and later as a scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations .

In 2000 he was called in as an expert in investigations into the effectiveness of the TRW rocket seeker heads . Postol concluded that there was scientific misconduct at TRW and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and wrote a letter to the White House.

In the case of the poison gas attacks in Ghouta and Khan Shaykhun , he considers the evidence presented by the West to be inconclusive.

Together with Robert Schmucker and Markus Schiller, he examined the data known so far for the two tests of the North Korean Hwasong-14 in July 2017 and came to the conclusion that the rocket was by no means an intercontinental, but only one through (post -) Soviet technology improved medium-range missile handle.

In 1990 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award .

Web links

• Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group , mit.edu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ z. B. George N. Lewis, Theodore A. Postol, John Pike: Why National Missile Defense Won't Work. In: Scientific American . 281, 1999, p. 36, doi : 10.1038 / scientificamerican0899-36 .
2. ↑ CV at mit.edu
3. ^ A Quick Turnaround Assessment of the White House Intelligence Report About the Nerve Agent Attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria. , April 11, 2017
4. ↑ German translation of the assessment of MIT professor Postol on the secret service report regarding the poison gas attack of April 4 in Syria , on the NachDenkSeiten
5. ↑ North Korea's “not quite” ICBM can't hit the lower 48 states [1] , August 11, 2017