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...four officials agreed that assured survival in the nuclear age was possible, but diverged sharply over the means to attain lasting peace. The Soviet representatives charged that the Reagan administration'sStrategic Arms Defense Initiative (SDI) wouldhamper progress towards nuclear cooperation...
Ambassador Cooper countered by declaring hissupport for SDI as a defensive mechanism toprevent nuclear attack. He added that the SovietUnion engaged in similar research and that the twonations should cooperate to strengthen defensivetechnology...
This is where the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) comes in. As the U.S. achieves the ability to destroy more and more of the Soviet missile force in a surprise attack, SDI becomes more and more sensible--and more and more insidious. Star Wars is not primarily intended to shield the United States from a Soviet first strike. This, according to most experts, is an impossible task. Rather, its purpose would be to mop up the small percentage of Soviet missiles that would escape a U.S. first strike...
...Pentagon seeks a disarming first strike capability. The MX, Trident and SDI systems can be seen in no other...
...some SDI was a bargaining chip for getting real agreements; for others it was an excuse to militarize space before the Soviets could; for still others it was a plausible pretext for breaking the antiballistic-missile treaty. Hardly anyone believed the pure-and-simple defensive-shield story that had been sold to the American people in, appropriately, a television cartoon. Hardly anyone, that is, but Reagan. To the horror of those around him, Reagan -- with the amiable way he has of thinking he can sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles...