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Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the hardest-lining of all Pentagon hawks, still insists "there's the possibility of a compromise" on SDI. Presumably it would involve something between Gorbachev's demand for tight restrictions on testing and development and Reagan's insistence that the program not be "killed." That might involve finding some definition of "research" that allows testing of Star Wars components outside the lab yet does not constitute the development of an actual SDI system...
...think a real opportunity was missed in Reykjavik. SDI is not only a fantasy, it is a fraud. If the President persists in his SDI fantasy, there is no possibility of success in arms control. All the President is doing with his fixation on Star Wars is to make arms control more difficult to achieve. He is escalating the arms race, as the Soviets build more weapons to block SDI. The Soviets will not consent to limitations on their strategic missiles without receiving something in return. I'm appalled that the Administration did not understand what was at stake...
...terrific deal. If we could have had an agreement to reduce offensive weapons significantly and all the U.S. agreed to do was limit the (SDI) program to research for ten years, that would have been marvelous. There is still so far to go and so many technologies to develop in SDI. In my analysis, the program we have in mind would not have suffered at all under strict interpretation of the ABM treaty." Drell favors the plan that called for a 50% reduction in nuclear weapons; though he would eventually like to see total disarmament, he believes such a goal...
...President should have taken the deal because SDI was a bargaining chip, and that's the way it should have been played. It didn't have to be signed and delivered in Iceland. The President should have said he needed more time to consider everything. SDI is clearly not the almighty, towering, impregnable shield we hear described. At best, it is a small, leaky, fragile shield. I have grave doubts that it can ever be implemented. SDI should be placed in the proper perspective. But I don't think everything is lost. The important thing to remember now is that...
...would have shut the so-called window of vulnerability. Giving up the chance to get very, very major reductions in the Soviet nuclear threat to pursue pie in the sky just doesn't make sense. They should have asked Gorbachev to clarify what restrictions he was asking for on SDI. Under the ABM treaty, for example, you can test exotic technologies from ground test sites. It doesn't seem to me that with that polyglot collection of advisers you could get fully prepared for the summit. You've got to sort out the views in advance and not have...