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tags:
  - Organization
  - Academic
  - USA
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California. Its Linear Accelerator Center was home to Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, a physicist who was a key colleague of Jack P."
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Stanford University is a private research university in [[Stanford]], [[California]]. Its Linear Accelerator Center was home to [[Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky]], a physicist who was a key colleague of [[Jack P. Ruina]] on an ad hoc panel of distinguished scientists tasked with studying the [[VELA Satellite]] data related to a probable nuclear explosion in the South Indian Ocean in 1979.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 20.