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What we've got to do is re-establish the linkage between our concern with the Soviet superiority in land-based nuclear weapons and the Soviets' concern with SDI. SDI is very useful for developing offense-defense linkage. One way for us to counter their offensive buildup is to defend our missile sites. We should make clear to the Soviets that we'll do this only to the extent necessary, given the threat that their missiles pose to our deterrent. We tell / them that we're going to protect not our population but our deterrent, and that we're willing...
...MAJORITY accepts the report's view that SDI is not feasible in the forseeable future, but does not advocate abandoning the initiative initially. This is a brutish way to think...
...change in U.S. policy regarding SDI is needed. Needed not because the program is--as can no longer be disputed--infeasible in the short term, but because the terrifying notion of weapons in the sky may become a realilty at some time in the distant future unless we repudiate it in the most emphatic way possible right...
...physicists' report casts into doubt that decades of research and untold billions of dollars will make SDI what the most rabid in the Administration want it to be: a mechanism to disarm any who oppose the unchecked extension of this country's interests. But decades and billions might see some part of that demented fantasy realized. What we must do is scuttle SDI together with the weapons it is designed to deter. And if others refuse to lay aside their arms together with us, then...
...agreed in principle. Gorbachev also broadened slightly the definition of the research into the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative that would be permitted under a more comprehensive arms agreement. At Reykjavik Gorbachev had insisted on laboratory research only; to Shultz in Moscow he defined "laboratory research" as including tests of SDI components that could be conducted on the ground. That did not necessarily bring an agreement any closer. The U.S. insists on conducting tests in space also, and indeed on the right eventually to deploy SDI. Gorbachev has demanded that stern limits on SDI accompany any Soviet-American agreement on deep...