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According to advocates of an SDI speedup, it might be possible in the mid- 1990s to orbit a space-based system of hundreds of satellites, called "garages," each capable of launching a dozen or so smart rocks that could strike Soviet missiles as they are launched. The system would also include ground-based smart rocks capable of striking warheads as they re-enter the atmosphere. Gerold Yonas, until recently the chief SDI scientist, says "even a modest deployment of this sort would run over $100 billion." By contrast, a full-fledged Star Wars system involving lasers and other futuristic technology...
...Obviously the report will have some political impact, but it's to the advantage of the government to make it public because it makes available the problems with SDI," said Thomas Marshall, a professor at Columbia and member of the committee. "Some will be encouraged, some will be discouraged by the report's findings...
...committee adopted "a large number of minor changes" to remove sections of its analysis of SDI that were deemed classified last fall, members said. The committee met with the SDI office in December in order to work out a version of the report that would be agreeable to both the government and the scholars, members said...
...revised report was sent to Washington onJanuary 15, where it is being reviewed by theoffice in charge of SDI research, members of thecommittee said yesterday...
...committee, formed two years ago, became thefirst group of independent scientists to be givenaccess to confidential Defense Departmentdocuments about SDI...