Oscar Hernández, PhD Harvard 1988, serves on the faculty at Marianopolis College and is an adjunct professor of physics at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. While a graduate student, he participated in the South Africa divestment protests, the Pledge of Resistance to the threat of a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua, and he coordinated the 1986 anti-Star Wars pledge at the Harvard Physics Department. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or “Star Wars,” was a reckless project to militarize space during the Reagan era.