Parnas, David

David Parnas believed that, for technical reasons, SDI could never he known in advance to be trustworthy. He also believed that pursuing SDI would likely ignite a new arms race and thereby pose an increased risk to international security. Given these beliefs, the actions David Parnas took in connection with his membership on the SDIO Panel on Computing in Support of Battle Management mark him as a researcher whose engineering work was fully consistent with the fundamental ethical responsibilities of engineers. 

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