It is a time of prime vulnerability when billions of dollars of electronic weaponry is rendered useless by atmospheric interference, and when potential enemies like the North Korean Army might well launch a pre-emptive strike.
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He proposed and joined the international project to build the Infrared Astronomy Satellite ( IRAS ), a project that included joint efforts from the United States, United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which made the first survey of the infrared sky from space, avoiding all atmospheric interference with observations, starting in 1983.
