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The University of California is a public university system whose physics Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez served on the ad hoc expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion.

The University of California is a public university system in California. The physics department at the University of California was home to Luis Alvarez, a Nobel laureate 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

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

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